Postgradasia - INCEIF booth

Yesterday I went to Postgradasia kat KL Convention Center. My only intention was to go to INCEIF's booth. Ni key-takeaways from the booth for PhD in Islamic Finance.

Key-takeaways for PhD Islamic Finance programme-
1) Ada 2types of programmes:-Coursework & Dissertation and Coursework & Research
2) Fees are same for part time and full time
3) Kelas at 6.30pm till 9.30pm weekdays
4) Vigorous selection process for PhD programme cz they only need around 20 candidates for each intake.

1- Types of programmes
a) PhD by Coursework and Dissertation- Have to complete 9 core courses + 4 elective courses + Dissertation (Dissertation = 24 credit hours)
b) PhD by Coursework and Research - Have to complete 7 core courses + Research (Research = 42 credit hours)

List of Core Courses are as follows:

• Islamic Economic
• Islamic Finance 
• Corporate Finance
• Usul Fiqh & Qawahid Fiqhiyyah
• Fiqh Muamalat
• Islamic Law of Contracts
• Accounting for Islamic Financial Transactions
• Research Methodology in Economics & Finance
• Financial Econometrics

List of Elective Courses (Any 4)

• Takaful Operations
• Islamic Risk Management
• Islamic Banking
• Islamic Portfolio Management
• Islamic Capital Market
• Islamic Wealth Management
• International Finance
• Advance Econometrics
• The Quran & the Economy: An Introduction

(coloured are the one that I'm interested to take) 

2. Total Fees for the whole programme= RM32,000

- 1 credit hour = RM500. most of the subjects   have 3 credit hours except for 1 that have 4 credit hours.

- Can apply scholarship MyPhD (gov scholarship) thru Jabatan Pengajian Tinggi (JPT)

- INCEIF also have their fund (fi sabilllah fund) but it would be per sem basis and only to eligible candidate.

3. Kelas petang after work @ 6.30pm

4. Selection process cm ssh gile. Part of the selection process is interview session with the academician in INCEIF (compulsary). (Ingatkan sesape yang apply leh jek dapat. Taktau lak dasyat gak process dia). Out of beratus apply, dlm 20 lbh jek (kot) yang terpilih. Menurut diorg, element penting  yang di-take into consideration

• level of English cz pembelajaran dalam English
• proposal topic and our knowledge pasal proposal tuh or the industry (kot)
• education back ground especially PhD by Research cz nak wat research kene la tau pasal industry Islamic Finance nih.

(ni based on short term memory smalam je la. maybe ada benda lain yg diorg bgtau tapi tak ingat) 

Lame gak la kat booth tuh sampai org kat situ dah tak tau nak jawap pe dgn soklan2 yang ditanye..Siap dia suggest g je la kat INCEIF office leh wat tour alang2.haha (perli ke pe)..Antara soklan ala2 analyst yang dikira soklan bombastic yang akan di emailkan jawapan later

- Failure rate / Passing mark (yang pasti Financial Econometrics is the killer subject cz failure rate agak tinggi banding dgn subj len. Dgr subject dah takut, tau dah sape ngajar lagi rase gerun.huhu)

- Whether can change part time to full time and vice versa

- Whether can change PhD by Research to PhD by Dissertation and vice versa

Anyway thanks to the person in charge ari tuh. He was very helpful and sangat bersabar menjawab soklan2 cepemas yang ditanye..

My concern (ye ye jek cam confirm nak amik PhD nih...)

- Tak smua elective courses offered will be available as the courses offered would be based on availability of the lecturer. If lecturer ni takde, sape nak ajar cz as we know tak banyak expertise pn industry nih..So quality of the lecturer sangat lah penting.

Hurm...banyak benda nak consider if btol2 nak buat PhD nih..Hopefully leh dapat conclusion nanti sebelum November thn ni for next year's intake.