Melbourne Uni - Academic machine? (1 Viewer)

[oLii]

I have spoken to many people who go the University of Melbourne, and they feel as if the university is a 'cold, degree-making machine' with no concern for individual students, and that they are bureaucratic and unhelpful at the best of times.

Does anybody else find this is the case? Or are these people outliers? I'm currently deciding between Engineering at Melbourne or Monash. While Melbourne has prestige, a neat campus and an air of change with their new model, Monash is probably better known for a friendlier atmosphere and seems more project-orientated in their approach.

What are your ideas on this, is Melbourne a good learning environment, or simply an esteemed label for your degree?

 

[gcspsp]

Does anybody else find this is the case? Or are these people outliers? I'm currently deciding between Engineering at Melbourne or Monash. While Melbourne has prestige, a neat campus and an air of change with their new model, Monash is probably better known for a friendlier atmosphere and seems more project-orientated in their approach.

I seriously hope not!!

:S

I wanna doing Engo too and I have NO chance of getting into Monash anymore

 

[han-]

nah not really.

 

[Strawbaby]

I haven't found that.
If you go looking for help, friends and support, you'll find it.

 

[intuiit]

Really? Hmm. I guess it's all about what you make of your own experiences ... if you don't make use of your course then I guess any university becomes a "cold, degree-making machine".

Try looking up graduate reviews - this guy seems happy with his time at unimelb, although I haven't done any other searching..

 

[Motoko12]

I have spoken to many people who go the University of Melbourne, and they feel as if the university is a 'cold, degree-making machine' with no concern for individual students, and that they are bureaucratic and unhelpful at the best of times.

Does anybody else find this is the case? Or are these people outliers? I'm currently deciding between Engineering at Melbourne or Monash. While Melbourne has prestige, a neat campus and an air of change with their new model, Monash is probably better known for a friendlier atmosphere and seems more project-orientated in their approach.

What are your ideas on this, is Melbourne a good learning environment, or simply an esteemed label for your degree?

It would depend on your circumstances. You might meet good teachers and bad teachers sometimes. Attend their opening day to have a rough insight of what you are looking for. Or drop by sometime and see what its all about. After all, the university of Melbourne has a good reputation and I wouldn't hope that students are not getting the best out of their education, but rather for a good label of degree.

 

[Skillo]

I'm discouraging my little sister not to go to Melbourne, despite the fact my older sister and I went through there. She's a different case, she wants to do Media Comm and the arts faculty has gone through the 'shitter' and is now in tatters.
All I know about eng at melbourne is it's heavily theory based.
Morale at the uni is low, not amongst all staff, but most aren't happy campers.
Melbourne has prestige, but it's slipping. Time will tell. I'm interested to see what happens.

 

[Joel8945]

I seriously hope not!!

:S

I wanna doing Engo too and I have NO chance of getting into Monash anymore

As I said to you; if you have engineering at monash university first and did reasonably well in specialist maths, physics, chemistry and maths methods, you still potentially have a chance at going to Monash University. Monash did actually make 41.76% of their offers below 91.3 last year and 95% of their offers were to ENTER's above 88.05!

I would also like to include that aren't universities their to actually give you a degree, I know I would like a degree with a good university name on it when applying for a job. To me Monash and Melbourne are the 2 excellent universities to attend. Really I believe attending either is really a win-win situation, even though Melbourne did have a greater appeal to me (especially actually getting their).