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4.19 / 5 based on 129 reviews
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Tumy R
Overall
I wish I had known...
More about accomodation and more details on the courses ...
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Malbourne Uni is one of the best in Australia and the quality of the teaching is really very good. There are lots of student activities to do and heaps of clubs to join ! Too many qualities to list here ... go and find out for yourselves !
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
Met people from other countries
Experienced a change in life
Advanced my studies & career
Final comments
Get out and about, visit the country and get to know the people ... so much to see and learn.
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Tumy R
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Personal savings
Other sources of funding:
Government assistance
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Australia is such a huge country to visit and I wouldn't have missed all the travelling for anything in the world! Great and definately worth spending all that money on. International student night life is also abundant but a big + to the overall experience.
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Housing, Travel, Nightlife, Overall:
was more expensive than at home.
Food, Telephone:
was the same price as at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Flat-sharing, getting together with friends to share the costs...
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Satu K
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Government assistance
Other sources of funding:
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
It was not legal for me to work
Personal spending habits
My accommodation was twice as expensive as in Finland. Food is quite cheap in Australia. I travelled more in Australia than I do in Finland (for obvious reasons).
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Housing, Travel, Telephone:
was more expensive than at home.
Food, Nightlife, Overall:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
Electricity is rather expensive. Go on the trips organised by the International Office of Melbourne Uni. Their trips are very good and the cheapest you can find.
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Academic
Course recommendations
This school is ranked 600 on a list of 700 universities in terms of student faculty ratio. It is highly overranked: the quality of pedagogy is poor, especially for a University that charges so much money for International Students. If Graduate Students are telling you that they regret ever setting foot inside this University, you know that something is terribly wrong.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
The faculty to student-ratio is appalling for a school that likes to think of itself as the creme de la creme of Australian Education. Also, even though I got H1s when I had GOOD, intelligent instructors, the school also assigns 24-year-old TAs to mark essays who are wholly ignorant of the subject they are supposed to be teaching. The APS should also note that Uni Melb regularly EXCEEDS the 25 student maximum in tutorials that is required to keep their courses accredited.
I have studied in some extremely amazing universities before, where Nobel laureates will actively engage you in scientific inquiry and teach you how to think. The university of Melbourne wants International Student money to pump into its coffers whilst giving you Powerpoint slides, classes that have over 700 people in it and extremely inexperienced graduate student instructors marking your papers, sticking stupid criteria.
If you want to learn anything, only take classes with Jeanette Lawrence, Nick Haslam and nobody else. Professors do not engage with students to encourage active inquiry: they're there to fill out numbers and quotas. So even though you've given me an H1, UniMelb, I give you a FAIL: failure to provide support for students, failure to address the concerns of International students and failure to engage in pedagogy: these guys earn money to make Powerpoint slides and put them up on blackboard. Not worth the 30k AUD. Not by a longshot.
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My opinion of the university assessment
Exams throughout the course
Essays and/or projects at the end of course
Essays and/or projects throughout the course
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Satu K
Overall
I wish I had known...
It is cold in Melbourne in the winter (May-October). Especially indoors. I wasn't prepared for this. The lowest temperature I had in my apartment was +12 degrees celsius. So bring warm clothes!
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In my opinion:
Everybody loved it, you will too!
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
Absolutely recommend it!
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During my experience abroad, I ...
(1) Never – (4) A lot
Became familiar with another culture
Met people from other countries
Experienced a change in life
Advanced my studies & career
Final comments
Be active and take part in all social events that are offered. That is the best way to make new friends.
The university expects you to be active and initiative, but they also provide very good orientation services.
Victoria is a beautiful state. See at least Wilsons Promontory!
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rinkylove
Housing
Type of housing: Apartment/House
Arranged by: Home university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
Personal comments
this univeristy is very good and accommodation is also very good and in this univeristy every facility is available and i personally feel that every one have to sudy there and peoples r very loveing and very caring
and i hope they also make u happy when u come back home after studies
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