you shud ask this gal hehe
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/455410

well it may be true that no one here has ever mentioned Sydney being the less preferable choice, however you cant deny the fact that Malaysian students still for some reasons, prefer Melbourne over Sydney. Indeed i dont have any official figures or stats to support my statement, thats merely based on my observation among my friends who went to Australia.

Probably because it all started with the big base of 'friends' already in Melbourne.

If you have no friends already existing in Australia, that eliminates that factor when choosing universities giving you the option of judging without bias.

All the better, eh?

friends follow friends where ever they go mar hahaha
yea, beside, i prefer this factor> study which uni, you come out also the same just how much u absorb during the time, tats make you different

i won't disagree on that point you have made, however i would say it is more likely because of the lack of publicity of universities in Sydney with the exception of UTS in Malaysia, just ask any of the students in college right now, it's not surprising to know that some of them have never heard of UNSW or Usyd but they are well aware of unis in melb such as UniMelb, Monash, RMIT etc..

haha
student ke ape tu yang tak tao unsw...uni adelaide...haha
anyways, between university of melbourne and monash australia...which ranks better huh?
personally i mean...not the internet ranking
if u know la...

my friend is studying in curtin university.is is UNSW is good in australia??

UNSW is one of the top unis in Australia. So are Monash, Uni of Melb and UTS.. IMO only though.

One of the very obvious reasons why Melbourne is more popular is because in KL itself, there's Monash, there's the tie up between Metro and RMIT, and every top student wants to enter Uni of Melbourne, some went to Trinity and go straight to Uni of Melbourne.

*shrugs* I chose my uni according to the course i want to do..

UTS isn't a Go8 uni, hence it isn't really in the same league as UNSW and Melbourne. The main difference between UNSW and Melbourne is the heritage. Of all the Go8 unis, there are 3 which doesn't have a sandstone heritage, i.e. ANU, Monash and UNSW, because they are established after WWII, as opposed to the others which have the OxBridge styled sandstone structures. UNSW probably has the most modern campus here after its recent multi-million dollar campus upgrade, which is still being implemented in stages.

The Malaysian government has close ties to Melbourne University and Monash, hence they will always be the first choice for Malaysian students. In contrast, UNSW has a close working relationship with the Singaporean government and NUS, hence UNSW is the top choice for most Singaporean students. One mistake UNSW probably made was to award its contract for its foundation studies course (similar to Trinity College Foundation programs) to KDU college, which isn't doing a good job of promoting it over its other alternatives. Most Go8 universities do not do twinning or 3+0 programs with overseas colleges for their major degrees.

Students should chose their universities according to what they want to do. Universities in Australia are undergoing major overhauls in the next few years, so expect some radical changes. Students in Melbourne Uni should have heard about the Melbourne Model announced recently. The recent Budget 07 also means unis will get better funding to compete.

This post has been edited by chris_c28: May 17 2007, 02:30 PM

I also think the perception of Australian universities is also a legacy from the Colombo plan in the 1960's. Many of our parents (or even grandparents) generation, who got a scholarship, went to Australia/NZ, amongst others. And like what chris_c28 said, the more established universities like Melb, Adelaide etc universities were chosen as a destination.

From my observations (I dont have any concrete facts to back this up), more people know about Melbroune/ Sydney compared to the other cities. Not sure why. Probably these are more established places.

The Melbourne Model: I forsee Monash having a spike in international student numbers, and UQ will no doubt follow suit in due time.

Why is that? I thought the Melbourne Model is revolutionary. In fact, many universities will soon implement something like that. UNSW and USyd already have what we call the Flexible First Year program for Engineering since last year, where students do a common set of subjects and engage in Engineering design and innovation courses. My thought was that the Melbourne Model is similar to this, only on a larger scale.

yea the melbourne model is revolutionary, to meet the job demand..
my case is architecture, it is good for me, dont need to spend long years in skool for tat..

MASCA anybody this july?

you joining?

Just a question: what's MASCA? And what's the event?

probably.i'm thinking about playing volleyball, even though i didn't play it in intervarsity games (i played futsal and lost in final)

This post has been edited by vdvaart: May 20 2007, 10:57 PM

ah. the thing is the sport that i play isnt in there, so naw decided to not join

I will be doing AusMat this July (PET scholar) in INTEC.
Any advice and words of wisdom for me?

what is it? golf? anyway lets watch basket tonight at 9pm!

This post has been edited by vdvaart: May 21 2007, 04:41 PM

heh spot on mate

basketball? where?