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

GoBlue81
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:52:10 +0000

Well, those medians actually put them in the top-10% of their age group.

That may be, but you need to consider that less than 18% of the high school grads get to go to college in Hong Kong. Also consider that your future classmates are in the bottom half (if not the bottom third) of UST’s entry class.

Also consider this… Unless you major in computer science, none of the global companies will be recruiting engineers locally at UST. There is no local industries requiring engineering skills; perhaps in sales & marketing but then you will be competing with your b-school classmates. Of course you can go back to Korea, but there you will be competing with grads from elite engineering schools.