<p>Hey, I'm from the US but am actually really interested in maybe going to college in Australia. I'm interested in finance/econ with international business also. I'm in an IB school so I checked the minimum scores for ANU and mine should be higher. I'm expecting between a 32 and 37, while the ANU scores were around 30 for finance/econ. (so unless i don't get the system {which is really possible-please help} I should qualify).</p>
<p>And finally, how are job/graduate school prospects in business from Australian School? ANU, Sydney, and Melbourne.</p>
<p>Bright Australian students tend to go to the UK and the US to study. The foreign students here are mainly very average students from China, Indonesia, India, Malaysia and sometimes Singapore. The few Americans who come here are academically really < insert euphemism of choice >. </p>
<p>However, if you are determined to study in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne are highly regarded in Australia. For finance/commerce/business, UNSW is another very strong contender.</p>
<p>ANU is more of a research school and is good to work at if you are an established researcher. The Research School of Social Sciences offers a near ideal environment if you are a senior academic. However, for undergraduate education, it is considered fairly average in Australia. </p>
<p>ANU head hunt semiretired faculty from Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard, who then publish large amounts. It's high international ratings are hugely distorted by this.</p>
<p>Yeah, a lot of Australian students tend to study overseas if they get the opportunity to; this usually consists of either becoming an exchange students, through normal applications or getting a scholarship.
However, if you want to study in Aus, that's pretty awesome. I dont know about the perspective in other Australian schools but Australia isn't as college crazed as America- that's speaking on general terms. Luckily, the bachelor degrees are usually shorter; so in your case a business degree downunder only consists of three years but i guess that changes if you want to combine it with another degree i.e. law. </p>
<p>i guess that the most reputable universities in Australia are; Sydney Uni, ANU, UM, UNSW, Monash but thats up to debate if you want to add other ones such as UTS etc.
Yeah, ANU does have the best ranking in Australia (i think its at number 16 am :S) and it does have the best international connections/ relations but its main focus is on research.
However, if you are considering ANU then i guess that i should just say that its located in Canberra. Canberra, can be known to be pretty dead, as in most shops closing by 5 and that most people who walk around the city are either politicians or other people working for the government. So i guess that if you want a quiet sort of education, then ANU is the place but if you dont then maybe sydney or melb might be the better options. ANU does have a very pretty campus though...</p>
<p>Since I'm very biased, I'd say Sydney Uni but Monash is pretty awesome as well. I'm not sure about anyone else but Sydney is usually the one with the highest prestige, its the uni which is the hardest to get into and is generalised as the uni everyone wants to go to- not that thats the case. AS mentioned before UNSW is another awesome uni especially for the finance/business section as well as Sydney etc. It also wouldnt hurt to give Macquarie Uni a look. </p>
<p>Ummm i have no idea how the whole IB system goes...I'm sorry. I only know the UAI system but i heard that the IB requirement for finance in ANU is around 28 and for economics around 26. I think that's how it goes. </p>
<p>I'm not sure what you're asking about with the job prospects. Here in Aus or back in the US? Post grad usually consists of a masters degree or honours. Your probably already know thats it not like the US where you need another three years to finish law school etc, since most degrees are covered in the undergraduate degree unless its medecine or something like that...</p>
<p>I'm also considering studying in Australia for my undergraduate. However, i'm also worry about the brand name of ANU in my home country, as there aren't many people heard about it before, and might not consider it as prestige as the local universities in Singapore.</p>
<p>ANU is a good university and its reputation is slowly becoming known around the world- if not already with their relations with Harvard and Oxford. However, it depends on what degrees you were considering of doing, because some universities are better than others in different areas.</p>
<p>So which are the australian universities that are reputable in their Business/Economic faculty as well as the IT faculty? I'm kinda in a dilemma choosing between Australia or studying locally.</p>
<p>Apparently the best Australian Uni for Economics is UM-university of Melbourne, the second highest ranked Uni in Australia. I'm not so sure about IT but some of the options could consist of UTS, Bond, Sydney, UNSW or even Monash. Ok, Australia might not have reputable names like harvard or Cambridge but the countries only 250 years old, give us time :p</p>
<p>Haha, well YOU, i'm considering the local universities in Singapore, however, admission to business courses is like trying to find a needle in the haystacks...that's why i'm considering my chances in Australia. As I'm from a Polytechnic, most probably, i won't get any chance of going to any USA school, even though one of my senior got into Stanford.</p>
<p>Business courses [especially a single degree] arent hard to get into over here compared to medical degrees etc. I think Australia aims at getting larger numbers of international students as the years go by especially with America taking most of them...</p>
<p>How is the education in Singapore better if the Australian colleges are ranked much better? At least the research opporunities should be much better...right? I mean, ANU and UM are top 30 in the world ahead of some ivies.</p>
<p>Haha! Quite true! But most of my peers, perceived a person opting for an overseas education only when they can't do well locally and get into the local institution, unless you are telling them big names like Harvard and Oxbridge.</p>
<p>The rankings are based on the amount of research the unis do. Dartmouth is ranked in the 60's I think but anyone will tell you the undergrad education there is better than any Austrailian unis. It would be better to study in Singapore because the education is almost the same but the price will be much cheaper. Also I believ NUS is ranked at #18.</p>
<p>But i guess that it also comes down to where you live.
I've never heard of any of those Singaporean Universities; a situation which students face in Singapore concerning Australia vice versa.
I'm definitely biased in this thread since i'd always encourage people to come study in Australia but i figure that it comes down to what you really want to do. Do you want to have a different experience where you go study in a country outside your own which is more expensive or do you want to opt for the other option where you study domestically? You should do whatever you feel suits you the best.
I know a lot of people who have come to study here, well where i live, especially Canadians [i dont know why :S] and most of them love the experience and find the education great. But i guess that everyone has different perspectives...</p>
<p>ANU is a great university if you're looking for research opportunities - it's unique in that first-years can begin research straight away if they want to. The PhB degree is the most prestigious science degree in Australia and rightly so - you get unparalleled attention from faculty and top Australian researchers. You can basically pick and choose whatever courses you want to do e.g. if you want to start at differential geometry you can, although, of coursem you do need the background to do so.</p>
<p>Apparently the college life (residential college that is) at ANU is the best in the country, and I've met some amazing people here. Australia is often seen as the 'dud' country by overseas students, probably because we don't have a uni in the top 10 in the world - and you know, the majority of Asians pick their unis by rankings.</p>
<p>If you're really into science, you should try for the PhB course here - although it is exceptionally hard to get in - they publish the cutoff as OP1 ~ UAI 99.00 ~ IB 40, but it's often much higher than that.</p>
<p>I'm no good with business or IT - never really wanted to study that apart from economics. UQ or UNSW are great in the business, but don't know any unis that actually have a reputation with IT.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don't think too many people hear about ANU for the fact that it's like our Amherst - it's small, and focused on the undergraduates, so you don't hear about world-breaking research as often as you do from the more metropolitan places such as Sydney and Melbourne.</p>
<p>Adding onto the fun facts; they apparently have the largest goth community in Australia not to mention the most round-a-bouts.</p>
<p>I also think that Australia is considered as a 'dud' as mentioned before- because it's just so far away from everyone. I heard the campus of ANU is awesome as well, my legal studies teachers daughter goes to ANU and apparently she loves it cause its a 'small-ish' campus with only an enrollment of about 20,000. But i know that a lot of people who go to ANU tend to visit Sydney a lot especially during the weekends because Canberra really can get a bit too dead...</p>
<p>Oh and Canberra is also freakishly clean...but you can consider that i good thing i guess?</p>
<p>Canberra seems interesting to me, as i love small cities, having live in Beijing for a period before, i think i have to admit that i hate places that are crowded.</p>