Benefits for students and graduates
The Melbourne Model has distinctive benefits for students and graduates, including:
- the opportunity to work with and be inspired by the world's top researchers
- the opportunity to study subjects which build on cross disciplinary research, addressing important local and global issues
- a new emphasis on knowledge transfer with opportunities for international experience and greater engagement with industry and the community through activities such as work placements, internships, online study opportunities with offshore institutions, study abroad and exchange programs
- a greater level of coherence in course design, leading to a shared sense of the 'Melbourne Experience' and readily identifiable pathways into the professions and research
- the opportunity to benefit from Australia's most comprehensive and generous scholarship program (over 2008 - 2010 more than 8000 students will receive benefits worth more than $100 million from Melbourne Scholarships)
As a result, our graduates will be:
- academically excellent
- knowledgeable across disciplines
- leaders in communities
- attuned to cultural diversity
- equipped to become active global citizens
Those that choose to go on to our graduate professional courses will:
- start their graduate study with a mature, broader perspective of the relevant subject areas
- have a clear vocational focus
- participate in a rigorous and intense, graduate-level learning experience
- have access to sophisticated career support programs, internships and mentor programs
- benefit from the University's strong links to industry, community and professional bodies
- achieve the status of a graduate professional qualification
- benefit from the greater employability and higher remuneration that comes from a graduate qualification
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