There are some courses/majors in Monash Melbourne not offered in Monash Malaysia.

have you checked the courses for the Monash campuses in Melbourne or the one in Malaysia?

There are like, 5 campuses in Melbourne. Diff campus offers diff courses.

But if say, your degree is from campus A, you can take your classes in campus B though campus B doesn't offer that degree.
Some common subjects are offered in other campuses as well.. This is useful for those who stays far from original campuses.
Melbourne is very huge, so you might not wanna live in suburb areas.

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..