Written by: The Apostrophe Academy academic team
Reviewed by: The Apostrophe Academy academic team
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Key takeaways
- Read the trend from the programmes universities actually open, not from social media posts.
- The right field is the intersection of what you are good at, what is taught in a language you handle, and what serves your plan after graduation.
- Regulated professional fields (medicine, engineering, accounting) need a professional-recognition check in advance.
Where the trend is actually visible
The clearest indicator available to you for free is the programme lists on university sites and official directories: which departments have opened, which programmes are now taught in English when they previously were not, which master's tracks have been added on top of an existing bachelor's. These decisions cost the university money, which makes them more honest than any forecast.
In our directory you can search by specialisation across hundreds of universities in Türkiye and Malaysia and see which institutions genuinely teach your field — that is the practical starting point for any decision.
The fields that are expanding, and what they ask of you
The clearest expansion in both destinations sits in computer science, artificial intelligence and data science; in energy and renewable-energy engineering; in health and allied-health disciplines; and in digital business and logistics. Each field, though, carries a specific academic price:
- Computing, AI and data science: solid mathematics and sustained programming work, not just an interest in technology.
- Engineering: strong physics and mathematics, longer study, and often a language year if the programme is in the local language.
- Health disciplines: harder admission, and later professional-recognition requirements that must be checked before you apply.
- Business and logistics: broader admission, so what differentiates you comes from internships, language and projects rather than the certificate alone.
The decision method we use in consultations
We start with an explicit assessment of your academic and language level, because choosing a field above your current level means either an extra year or a transfer later. Then we compare two or three fields on the same basis: the first-year curriculum, the language of instruction, entry requirements, programme length, and what you would need in order to work in it afterwards.
We do not quote salary figures or employment rates, because any such number without an official source misleads a student more than it helps.