Hi! I've recently received my A' level results and to be honest, it sucks balls enough that I can't be admitted into a local uni.
I've been keen on studying psychology and after doing a thorough research, I found that it costs 64k SGD for 3 years to obtain a degree in SIM. It's one of the more costly courses, 'cause I clicked on others (eg business, banking, marketing etc) and they were only 19k-25k SGD for 3 years.
Moreover, I heard that getting a degree in Singapore won't qualify you to be a registered psychologist, at most maybe a school counsellor (where you deal with kids who aren't doing their work etc) earning maybe 1.7k SGD? That would suck really bad, considering how SG has such a high cost of living I can just die. I don't think other private unis offer a more recognized degree than SIM already, like James Cook and Kaplan.
Need to get a Masters to be a registered psychologist but the only other cheapest alternative is to go to Australia for your Masters, but I'm afraid an SIM cert (Uni of Buffalo) isn't recognised by the unis in Aust? That won't entitle me to undertake their Masters programme. But the school fees there are like 30k SGD per year (just for bachelor's degree) and living expenses 10k SGD per year.
Life sucks when you don't have the brains, tuition fees for psychology in local unis are around 6k SGD.
So Perth anyone? Very keen on finding mates who are gonna study there! :)