DDP – Chemical
Engineering and
Accountancy
Ng Tong Hin
tonghin@gmail.com
Outline
 Workload: Degree Requirements & Sample Timetable
 Internships (Accountancy compulsory internship & subsequent modified semester)
 Career Prospects
 Additional Pointers
Workload: Degree Requirements
 242 MCs in total
 5.5 Years ≈ 22 MCs/sem
 5 Years ≈ 24 MCs/sem
 4 Years ≈ 30 MCs/sem
Modules
BBA (Acc.
Hons)
MCs
BBA (Acc.)
MCs
BBA (Hons)
MCs
Engineering
106
106
90
BBA
108
88
76
16
16
32
University
Level
12
12
12
Overall Total
242
222
210
 Very few common modules Common
Workload: Degree Requirements
 Minimum six modules per semester
 2 separate honours dissertation (first class)
 2 separate CAP scores
 Need to be very careful (can fluctuate easily) Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Special
Term
Sem 1
20 MCs (5 mods)
Sem 2
24 MCs (6 mods)
Sem 1
24 MCs (6 mods)
Sem 2
30 MCs (8 mods)
Sem 1
31 MCs (8 mods)
Sem 2
28 MCs (7 mods)
Sem 1
38 MCs (9 mods)
Sem 2
34 MCs (8 mods)
2 Mods + Thesis
Workload: Sample Timetable
Year 1Semester 2
0800 - 0900
0900 - 1000
Monday
1000 - 1100
1100 - 1200
CM150 2
Tutorial
CN1111 Tutorial
1200 - 1300
1300 - 1400
1400 - 1500
ACC20 0 2 Tutorial
1500 - 1600
1600 - 1700
CM150 2
Lecture
CN1111 Lecture
Tuesday
BSP10 0 5
Tutorial
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1700 - 1800
BSP10 0 5 Lecture
MA150 6
Tutorial
ACC20 0 2 Lecture
CM150 2 Lab
CN1111 Lecture
MLE110 1
Lecture
MLE110 1
Tutorial
CM150 2 Lecture
MLE110 1 Lecture
CN1111 Tutorial
Workload: Timetable
 NUSmods.com
 Curriculum time: Engineering 4 hrs/mod vs. BBA 3 hrs/mod
 Clashes in timetable
 Planning, planning, planning
Workload
 Be prepared for:
Travelling
between faculties
Burnt weekends
Projects and
finals
Internships
 Compulsory accounting internship
 Flexible - accounting/finance related
 Modified semester
 PLAN carefully!
 Internships are important!
 The earlier you know what you want, the better
Career Prospects
 Advantages:
 “Impressive”
 Unique/special (can be a disadvantage too)
 Exposure to both disciplines
 Finance knowledge (ability to understand financial statements a huge plus)
 Disadvantages:
 Time/discipline extremely important
 Both are specialized – skills/knowledge transferable?
 Non-academic commitments?
Career Prospects
 Where do you want to go?
 Engineering or Accounting or Finance?
 Accountancy or Business degree?
 Academic results only get you the interviews
 Rest is up to you
Additional Pointers
 Know what you want/why you want to do DDP
 Know your strengths and plan “buffer mods”
 Be wary of “webcast-traps”
 Go for exchange if you can
 Have an idea of what to have in your CV
 Keep on track with suggested curriculum
 More flexibility (pre-requisites less of an issue)
 Batchmates
Thank you!
Questions?
(tonghin@gmail.com)