Hello,i've just finished my A-level exams and now i need to apply to universities abroad(more precisely Australia,maybe china too).I need advise guys about whether 'Computer systems engineering' or 'Pharmacy' or "Biomedical engineering' is better(in terms of career opportunity,difficulty....) Computer systems engineers plan, design and create systems of software and hardware. Pharmacist:Their knowledge and expertise in the pharmaceutical sciences ensure that health professionals use medicines to the maximum benefit in patient treatment and disease prevention. Biomedical engineering (BME) is the application of engineering principles and techniques to the medical field. It combines the design and problem solving skills of engineering with medical and biological sciences to help improve patient health care and the quality of life of individuals. So if anyone has/is doing one of these courses,please help me choose P.s:i have no favourite among these courses,liked everyone of them.I also loves Mathematics and i'm not sure whether there's Mathematics in any. cheers..
You can consider UTS, they seems to have a lot of career support on your field of study. I'm studying Business and IT in there, my major is Data analysis, it is so maths based..... UTS is also good at Law and Engineering ^^
lol i dunno how much use a pharmacy degree from china would be. You'd probably be ok with an engineering degree from china, but anything medical related might result in you having to write a shitload of reciprocity exams if you try to practice in europe or america. if you like maths then CS engineering would definitely be the way to go. With the other two subjects you'd be looking at a major focus on chem/bio and spending atleast 6 hours a week in labs. What it really comes down to though is what you want to do for the rest of your life. university is only like 4-5 years depending on whether you only want a bachelors degree or not. you also gotta think about what you wanna do for the rest of your life. spending the rest of your days sitting infront of a computer coding, standing behind a counter filling and signing off on prescriptions or designing medical equipment.
it helps fearless_fx but think i will choose pharmacy because i don't want to sit in front of a computer and because i like working in labs.Moreover,i think that in Mauritius,i won't get a career with Computer systems engineering
depends where u planning to look for work after u graduate... i can tell u, if u looking into biomed, u'd better off picking usyd as thats probably the most known place. unsw has it, but its a postgrad course (masters or phd only). i did the masters in terms of work for biomed, most likely available jobs are with the hospitals doing maintainance. if ur looking into r&d, pay isn't great and until u have a phd, its not very likely to get to a decent level. end of day, theres a lot of r&d opps, but its not great pay. australia's not known for great levels of funding. there's always opps at unis on contracts (1-2 years) and then pending funding, whether that can get renewed or not is another issue in making a "generalised" comment here, comp systems isn't looked upon so greatly (at least in syd). i'd probably recommend comp sci + honours with a focus on one area that ur interested in. alternatively do comp eng. pharmacy, pretty much guaranteed a job. casual rates u get paid excpetionally well, but if all ur doing is just working at a pharmacy selling drugs/prescriptions... i don't nkow how "enjoyable" that is. ideally in doing pharmacy, u'd want to do r&d into drugs, but unfortunately i hardly see any of that... alternative to pharmacy = science degree majoring in pharmacology etc end of day, wat are u WANTING to do... its more abt ur interest, and wateva ur interseted in, u'd do better... =) at unsw, u can consider doing BE (Comp Eng) with MBE (Masters in Biomed). that kinda looks into designing the systems (prosthetics etc) if u work more into BE (Soft Eng) with MBE, then that would deal more with the software side application into biomed, eg vision programming (which unsw is going pretty well atm) personal preference and opinion would be to avoid just doing a single degree in Computing/IT. at least do a double/joint/concurrent etc todays age etc, its expecting u know how to use computers and apply it. u want to market urself, so should apply ur computing/IT skills into a certain field is always much nicer =)
people i know who did those courses went to: Pharmacy @ Monash university or University of Sydney Biomed engineering @ Melbourne Uni or Aust National Uni Computer Systems dun really noe cause dunno anyone doing/did that subjectr My friends from pharm is doing hospital medicine research so ur not really restricted to a pharmacy >.>
Ah, je suis desole. Mon Francais n'est pas parfait ainsi il serait hypocrite si je critique votre anglais.
Too bad i missed what you wrote before editing,huh,for your knowledge,in french it's written 'carriere' with an 'accent aigue'.The use of internet and help of friends are easily available nowadays,so...Between english is not my mother tongue language and yeah you must not underestimate my English because you don't know my results in school. Anyway,you win,i'm very bad in english and i should probably polish my spelling!!
i won't say ur "restricted" as such but 99% of them just go to work as pharmacist in charge not many get into doing research unfortunately i don't really know y... one factor is funding as i mentioned... working in hospital generally means its govt job too... i've spoken with quite a few of the large drug co's, and their r&d depts are in europe >.< theres minimal r&d here however, if ur interested in it, by all means do it doesn't mean u have to work in aust sgp is great, great funding =) if ur willing to go o/s to study, i don't see y u can't go o/s to work either =)
Alright.think it helped me,i will finally take Pharmacy but then my second option will be computer systems. Between i know that curtin's online application is free,are the others also free?
engineering is a solid degree. even if you don't end up becoming an engineer, you have a lot of skills that make you a good candidate for many other jobs. I know people who go back to do their mba or do finance related work - big monies
