First-class study options
The University helps you excel through award-winning approaches to teaching and learning and courses that meet your unique talents and goals.
As well as being Australia's leading research university, the University of Melbourne is among Australia's top teaching universities.
The University's excellence in teaching was recognised for a third consecutive year in 2007 with the award of $8.3 million under the 2008 Commonwealth Government's Learning and Teaching Performance Fund.
In the 2007 national teaching awards we received a record 10 Carrick's Citations for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning and 4 Carrick Awards for Teaching Excellence.
As a student, you will benefit from:
- new learning spaces, with the latest multimedia technology to aid interactive learning;
- undergraduate degrees designed to provide both depth and breadth of learning;
- clear pathways from undergraduate studies to employment, professional programs and research;
- a graduate school experience unique to Australia, inspired by international best practice, with more intensive and better supported professional and research training.
Our comprehensive range of academic programs can be tailored to accommodate your talents and goals. We encourage you to explore broad intellectual, social, political and historical contexts both in and outside the classroom. With our redesigned curriculum, we have aligned the University and your degree with the best of US, European and Asian higher education.
Read more about undergraduate courses, graduate courses, and the Melbourne Model.