University of Melbourne (UM)

Australia is the now one of the most expensive countries to live in, in the world.

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.

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.

I lived in College Square, near Uni Melb and I booked my apartment on the web. Never again! They charge exorbitant sums, tell you they give you a one bedroom when it really is a shoebox and you have no rights as a tenant.

Yes. I wish I had known that the University of Melbourne charges the most out of all the educational institutions in the world while providing the least. I will go to Columbia next year because the cost of tuition is the same and the student faculty ratio is 1-6 compared to 1-107 in Unimelb.

They need international reforms, they are highly overrated and their tuition is too much for what they actually provide. I could have taken a distance course and learned as much, save for the presence of Jeanette Lawrence and Nick Haslam.