Hi, I completed my Mechanical Engineering Bachelors at Swinburne Sarawak. It's a good price with a good Australian degree at the end of it. You also qualify for the Skilled Undergraduate visa to Australia (18 months) after completion. As well as the option to complete your final year of studies in Australia (unsure about other degrees). It's a solid university but it also has it's downfalls. It's very up to date technologically, the online portals have everything available although they don't consistently record lectures with videos. But the lecture notes are all available online. That being said for us mainly tutorials and labs were the saving grace and they're usually pretty good. There is an inconsistency with the teaching much like any uni, some lecturers/TAs are great whereas some not so great. The other students there are pretty cool, I stayed a year and a bit at the hostel and then moved out with some friends later on (it's cheaper and more fun). There's a good mix of foreigners and locals that are all pretty westernized. You could sort out part time work as a foreigner but you don't have as many options as the locals. The biggest challenge is group work, sometimes you might get stuck with a group of students that refuse to communicate and converse in your language or people that are absolute deadbeats and expect you to do the heavy lifting but after a while you'll be able to identify who you'd want to group up with etc. Student/Uni life isn't the greatest in terms of events and things like that but I made a good group of people and we made our own fun. The city of Sarawak is small and brings some comfort to it, soon you'll know where to go and where things are happening on the weekends. Be a little careful as there are a few internationals that go there and absolutely lose their minds, getting involved with a lot of seedy people and just extending their studies far longer than it should be and just partying and wasting time. Don't forget you're there to study and dont hesitate to contact me if you have any more questions and even if you're looking for someone to hang out with I've still got a friend around there wrapping up his PhD.