13 reviews
2.59 / 5 based on 13 reviews

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Luc F
Expenses
Main source of funding:
Government assistance
Other sources of funding:
Family<br>
Personal savings
Work opportunities:
I didn't explore any work options
Personal spending habits
Because of the severe drought in victoria, prices of fresh farm food have risen consideratly. Because of the great distances, I also spend a lot of money on plane tickets. Student priced drinks are quite cheap if u get in before 1 o clock. Concession is available in most cases (cinema, restaurants etc) I Also bought a car, because campus is about 10 km out of town and busses drive verry infrequent to town (only 3 busses on sat-sun)
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Travel, Overall, Food:
was more expensive than at home.
Housing, Telephone:
was the same price as at home.
Nightlife:
was less expensive than at home.
Accessibility of student needs
Second-hand household items
Personal comments
You are allocated a monthly internet quota worth 6 AUD, this lasts (for me) just for 2-3 days. So I spend a lot on buying additional internet quota (about 50 AUD a month)
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Luc F
Academic
Course recommendations
In the business course we had some chinese teachers, who did not speak english very well. This made it hard sometimes to understand the subject he/she was talking about.
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My academic experiences
Interaction with teachers
Interaction with international students
Interaction with local students
Personal comments
lots of essay writing to do, and for the 4 subjects choose, I had to read about 6-8 chapters a week, just to keep up. Quite a big workload, considering the fact you also want to do some travelling.
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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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Pradeep R
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
Computer Science / IT, Graduate, Cricos
Overall
I wish I had known...
Please dont be Ballarat as well as University of Ballarat.
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In my opinion:
Stay home.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
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
Overall Experience
This is a worst university.There are lecturers who mostly psychopaths here.ITMS-Information Technology,Mining.Mostly Senior lecturers are Australians and tutorial lecturers are Indian with a horrible english. You need paitence if you want to study 2 years here.The Indian community is pretty annoying and odd.Its difficult and deal ,study with Amatuers in this University.
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Gaining admission and getting there
Admissions are easy in the university and its all revenue based university.People in this locality do not the value of an International student and their money.Its the cheapest University in Australia.
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Funding and Scholarships
I got my self funded in State Bank of India Coimbatore.
Study Experience
Its a lazy university,they do not even arrange proper Syllabus in the university
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Life Experience
Worst Bus service here and Commercial areas are ready to close at any time.Its easy to get accomodation but difficult to be with Indians here.There are no student union here.University accomodation is the worst.Please dont ever try to get into that locality.Its a waste of money.Most of the students are treated like convicts
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Job Prospects
No jobs in this town. If you get jobs,its not worth working in the restuarant. There is an IBM company here in which they recruit non IT people for Helpdesk,its very odd. Ballarat and University of Ballarat is not a place to live and study.. If you decide to come here and please be ready to face all these. There is no exposure or community to interact.
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Recommended for international students
No
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Luc F
Overall
I wish I had known...
Ballarat is quite a racist redneck town and foreigners are not quite welcome. It frequently happened that internationals with darker coloured skin got beaten up by the locals.
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In my opinion:
I loved it but I'm not sure everybody would.
Important factors in my choice
(1) Unimportant – (4) Very important
Personal recommendation
The uni is making a great effort to make your stay a pleasent one and they are trying hard to keep up some standard, but I think it is just a cultural thing about the ozzies. They are quite lazy....
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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
Australia is a good choice if u want to explore this continent. My experiences so far are traveling to tasmania and scuba diving on the great barrier reef. Certainly things u dont do at home. But the Ballarat people do not fancy strangers. Also the youngsters at campus have developed a huge drinking culture, with "Social functions" once or twice a week. If u dont like excessive drinking, staying on campus is not a very wise decision....
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Luc F
Housing
Type of housing: On campus
Arranged by: Host university
If returning, I would choose: On campus
Why?
Nice and close to classes, gymm, swimming pool
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Personal comments
Housing is quite expensive, but you get a daily cleaner for the common area, a well equiped kitchen and awashing machine and drier.
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Luc F
Student life
Describe host city:
Students interact with the local community without much university involvement
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Activities: Takes place mostly within the university/student environment
Travel: Takes place mostly outside the university/student environment
Nightlife: Takes place both within and outside of the university/student environment
Personal social experience
Personal comments
Best place to visit would be 21 arms or bended elbow, since these are the only popular places in this town. The regent cinema is also worth a visit, its huge!!!
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