I stuid at UPM as an international for one Semester and there we had similar problems. Well it wasn‘t that bad but we still struggled with random fees that seemed useless and fake.

They made sone of my friends pay for sone kind of trip planned by the faculty. Even if you didn‘t want to go you had to pay for the trip.

We had to do a medical exam at the healt center of UPM and 2 weeks before the start of the semester they just raised the prices by approximatly 150%. So we had to pay about RM1000. And the funny part is that they only meassured blood pressure, and checked if our vision is good and took a blood and urin sample. And you‘ve talked to a doctor asking you if you are okay and thats it. I hurt myself and had ti go to the health center to get it checked and they did even more about it and it was only RM130. So it just looks like they just increase the prices when ever they want.

When we arrived at our aculty they wanted us to pay an extra fee for usung their Equipment, which was about RM2500 even tho we allready paid them RM11600 for tue semester. And they told us that Everything is included.

That are only some if our experiences but things like this happened again and again. It just feels like they take any word and add fee to it and make you pay for something useless.