4 ADTP Students given WMU Scholarship in the US
At a certificate presentation recently, the American Degree Transfer Program (ADTP) at Sunway University College had reason to celebrate as a record 24 of its students, were honored in the Dean’s List of Western Michigan University (WMU) and four students were awarded the Presidential Scholarship by WMU, valued at USD8,000 per year. This is the first time the ADTP at Sunway had so many of its students bagging a prestigious scholarship from WMU in one occasion.
The overjoyed WMU-bound scholars were: Yenni Chen from Indonesia, who will be reading Industrial Engineering; Lee Pei Li who will study Economics, Ng Sue-Lynn who has set her sights on Psychology and Mohammed Arafatul Islam from Bangladesh, who will be pursuing Electrical Engineering.
The scholarships could not have been better timed as this year marks the 20th year of Sunway University College partnership with WMU. The strong collaboration has established Sunway’s transfer program with WMU and as such enabled Sunway to offer a True-Credit American degree transfer program. As credit transfers are already benchmarked against WMU which is widely recognized, students may transfer into any other US University should they decide not to enjoy the twinning benefits of WMU.
Ng Sue-Lynn’s younger sister, Ng Sue-Yenn will be transferring to WMU’s College of Fine Arts to pursue a degree in Musical Theatre Performance. Sue-Yenn is one of the few from Sunway’s history to be accepted into this course. Sue-Yenn’s talent for singing and dancing saw her win the Seventeen magazine’s Star Search Talent Competition, recently in which she won the first prize. She was also in the musical “That was the Year” which played at KL Pac.
Among the students who will be transferring to other universities is Lee Jin Wei, a former State swimmer from Johor who is heading for the Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus. The University is ranked the top 48th university in the US. Jin Wei will be pursuing a degree in Sports Science. Jin Wei was active in football and rugby and served as a part-time swimming coach at Sunway University College.
Yenni and Arafatul have chosen well as WMU has a range of excellent engineering programs and WMU is ranked 19 out of the 50 top undergraduate Engineering Programs in the USA by US News.
By completing part of the degree in Sunway University College for the first 20-24 months and then transferring to the US for the other 20-24 months, a student will stand to save 40% of the entire cost. Students can join the ADTP after completing secondary school. The main programs of study available at Sunway are in Business Administration, Communications, Computer Science, Natural Science, Engineering and Aviation although it is possible to transfer to other majors at WMU. The ADTP at Sunway places great emphasis on specialized knowledge with a broad education. Students take a range of general education subjects covering the liberal arts and humanities to ensure they develop a well-rounded background.
WMU was founded in 1903 and is a vibrant, dynamic university that focuses on delivering high-quality undergraduate instruction. With its significant research activities, it is one of only 102 public universities placed in the highest category of doctoral-research universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. It is in the top 100 public American universities, rated by the US News & World Report 2006.
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