Why students pick the colleges and courses they do

CYNICS put it down to financial and parental factors. The average Malaysian, they say, can’t think critically and doesn’t have a mind of his own – particularly the youth.  

But it happens every year. The same few programmes seem to be on top of everyone’s list, and certain institutions will steal the limelight though no one is quite sure why. Is it the academic record? The state-of-the art facilities? Or the cool social life?