Your Local Higher Education Options - Part THREE - UBD

The advertisement for courses and entry requiremen will be out very very soon. HOwever the information that you find here are general notes adn tips which you might find useful to know.

UBD will now be offering only four types of degree programmes, namely

• Bachelor of Arts,
• Bachelor of Sciences,
• Bachelor of Health Sciences
• Bachelor of Business.

All the Education and Malay medium programmes have now been scrapped and are only available as graduate school. If you want to become a teacher you have to take a degree first to become a specialist in your area of interest and only once you graduate do you proceed to do yours Masters In Teaching where you will then be qualified to teach your area of speciality.

These four degree programmes will be part of the New Generation programme where a Discovery Year would be introduced. Students will have the option of taking a year abroad as exposure to life outside of Brunei. More details of this can be found during the STUDY IN UBD expo held in the middle of February or at the UBD ROADSHOW which will be held in Maktab Duli on the 21st of February.

New courses will be available, which are BSc in Physical Education (twinning programme with UWIC) , Bsc in Nursing and Bsc in Midwifery. There will no longer be a certificate in Nursing. However Diploma in Nursing/Midwifery is still available and will require 5 O levels – English, MAths, Science, Malay.

There will still be degree programmes where the medium of instruction will be in Malay. This is under the BA programme where students can take Major in Bahasa Melayu, Minor in Malay linguistics. Career choices are quite limited for this course though. However it is important to note that there must be a credit in English, despite it being a malay medium programme.

Art will be considered as a relevant A level subject, but only for the BA programmes.

Interviews will only be conducted for the more competitive programmes, in this case Bsc Physical Education and entrance to IM courses.

Students must be aware of how important it is that English O level must be a credit in order to attain entry to higher education institutions. This applies even to those who wish to enter Malay Medium degree programmes. If you do not have your ENglish O level yet, your option is to take the IELTS exam. You need a score of 6.0 to enter UBD.

Art/Malay/Syariah/Usuluddin are possible subject combinations for entrance to BA degree programmes but it must be cautioned though that chances for employment are quite challenging for those who choose these subjects. It is best that those with these subjects look at KUPUSB instead. Take note that entry is competitve as they only have a limited intake each year and they are looking for those who genuinely want to become religious education teachers.

Lastly, Students should be aware that the advantage of studying at UBD rather than overseas would be that you will not be bonded at the end of the course.

Dont forget, STUDY IN UBD - 12-15th February.
UBD ROADSHOW in Maktab Duli - 21st February!