Hong Kong vs. US, help me on this decision please!

Sam_Lee
Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:38:41 +0000

My academics are strong, but I want to know if HKUST has healthy competition between the students. In Indian colleges, students don’t generally take the courses that they are interested in taking and take them as it will yield good amount of money for them. I want to know if this is the case in Hong Kong as well. I would like to know if the students are truly passionate about the majors that they are doing as that will ensure how interested my peers will be in the course matter.

It used to be that CS was that hot majors that many people in Hong Kong will try to get in regardless of whether they are that interested in. But now the hot ones are finance/global business and acturial scieces, along with the traditionally popular medicine/law. The students are still of higher-caliber than FIU by a good margin.



Also, I am worried about the dorm facilities available to the students at HKUST. I feel that the single rooms were very crammed and that disturbed me alot. Do computer science students at HKUST get proper facilities that are needed such as high speed internet, labs etc?



The dorm room is crammed because real estate is the most expensive in the entire world (it makes new york city look not too expensive). It doesn’t mean its facilities/labs are poor.



Also, how is the job scenario for computer science students at HKUST as compared to Florida International University. I don’t want to end up working in Hong Kong, though. I want to be attached with a global organisation. Will HKUST ensure this?



Hong Kong is an international financial center; many global companies have offices there. But if you mean places like MS/Google in the US, well, it’d be pretty impossible to get a job offer there while you are physically not in the US and without visa status. You’d need to somehow be in the States to have any chance; so FIU is the better option in that regard but please note that FIU is probably not on any of those companies’ radar because it’s more like an average school in the US.