Earlier today I received an email from the University of Melbourne asking me to fill out a survey that probed my reasoning for declining a post-graduate offer.
The survey posed the following question:
Why did you provide a rating of [rating] for your likelihood to recommend the University of Melbourne?
This question of course related to whether I would recommend applying to post-graduate study at UniMelb, but it got me thinking as to whether or not I would recommend undergraduate study here (I graduated from UniMelb earlier this year). As such, I’ve come up with some thoughts/ a bit of rant that may be of interest to people considering studying at Melbourne, or just to fellow students who may identify with these frustrations. Though I can only speak with any certainty about UoM, I imagine many of these criticisms apply to all Australian universities.