It’s a perennial problem – more top scorers than places at public universities for medicine, dentistry and pharmacy. The cheapest route to these degrees is fraught with uncertainties and heartache.
IT costs the government about RM70,000 a year to train a medical student at a public university. That works out to RM350,000 for a five-year course.
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