Professional Exchange Student
I got this inspiration from my friend Aaron Tan. He went for one term local exchange to NUS. So I am thinking if it will be great if we can go for an exchange every term. Let say as Professional Exchange Student.
So the degree will be Bachelor Degree in General Elective Majoring in International Communication. Every term, students are required to do an exchange or two to any other university approved college or institutions. The example program will be something like…
| Term | Institution |
| Year 1 Term 1 | SMU |
| Year 1 Term 2 | UPenn |
| Year 1 Term 3 | Beijing University |
| Year 2 Term 1 | NTU |
| Year 2 Term 2 | KAIST |
| Year 2 Term 3 | LSE |
| Year 3 Term 1 | Tokyo U |
| Year 3 Term 2 | NUS |
| Year 3 Term 3 | Internship |
| Year 4 Term 1 | IIT / IIM |
| Year 4 Term 2 | CMU |
| Year 4 Term 3 | SMU |
I am sure the fun-factor of this program is more than 10 out of 5. The best part is, the GPA is almost irrelevant since 90% of the modules taken are pass/fail subjects. So if there is scholarship for this kind of program, the GPA requirements will be pretty much for formality sake only. In reality, the scholarship criteria will be somewhat like… ‘must be able to go to at least 2 different continents every year excluding summer term’ or ‘must be able to be conversant in one new language every years’ or ‘acquiring 500 new Facebook/MSN friends every term’ - Actually Facebook is better since it can be easily verified.. Frankly, I am not worried with the details. I am sure people can come up with all the weirdest stuff I could not think of.
Obviously due to the nature of the program, students will graduate with at least 20 General Elective modules (not counting the half credit courses) and unable to specialize in anything but networking (read: clubbing) and distinguishing different types of alcoholic beverages from six continents minus antartica.
Of course to support government campaign to retain talent within Singapore, the last destination will be one of the local university. Hopefully the graduate will stay for good.
Above all, it is a journey more daring 
Did I miss anything?
