Journal Writing

Studying locally or abroad is better?

    With a great achievement, a student has a chance of continuing his or her studies in a higher level of institute. Society nowadays tends to assume studying abroad is way better than studying locally. In fact, the vacancies of most company require more students graduated abroad rather than those graduated from local university.  However, there are certain cases which undergraduates from abroad also are not high quality in academic qualification. Hence, this has created a perception towards the society to never have a thought of everything from abroad is a high-quality product. Perhaps, those students who studied in local university are far better than those from abroad.

   Studying abroad does gave something positive to the society. However, they do not realize that they are actually underestimating our students who study locally. This is actually has given them a negative impact as they may think that even how hard and excellent they have done in their studies, they will never get to compete with the undergraduates from abroad. They indeed tend to think that the quality that they have inside them will never be at the same level of the students from abroad. To be frank, studying locally is more saving than studying abroad. Yet, it increases our own economy which is more useful to our country rather than sending students studying abroad. This is because our local university mostly are high in quality as the university in overseas.

   

   In conclusion, studying locally is just the same as studying abroad. Society may look up on those who are graduated abroad. However, when it comes to Malaysian System in any field of jobs, they may not fit in the qualifications of the jobs locally. Hence, it is very important to convince the society to never underestimate the local university students of their qualification. This is because they probably do better than the overseas students.