Commerce - Melbourne or Monash?

[GoldenPie]

Hi all 

I was just wondering what are the pros and cons in going to either Melbourne Uni or Monash Clayton to study Commerce? Is one university better than the other in terms of Commerce?

I am leaning more towards Melbourne Uni, but I live quite far away as it will take me at least 70 minutes to get there. On the other hand, it will only take me half the time to get to Monash Clayton.

Should I still choose Melbourne despite the amount of time I spend traveling or should I pick Monash Clayton as the time traveling to Melbourne Uni is not worth it?

Please share with me your thoughts and recommendations!
All advice is greatly appreciated!  

[Truck]

honestly, if i was you i'd go to monash on the basis of location alone

[paulsterio]

Yeah, to be honest, 70 mins to get to UoM and 70 mins to get back = almost 1.5 hours a day = 7.5 hours/week

Essentially if you go to UoM, you'll lose 7.5 hours per week in just travel time alone, as opposed to 3.25 hours for Monash, like it might not seem like much, but when you take like 45 mins more every day, it works out to be 0.75 x 120 (120 days of uni per year - 5 x 24) = 90 hours/year, which is quite a lot across three years, so I'd just pick Monash for convenience + undergraduate it probably doesn't matter, both Melb and Monash are Go8 universities...etc.

[GoldenPie]

Thank you both on your advice! It sure helped a lot!

Much appreciated!

[Furbob]

In the long run, I'd go for Monash as you'd be more attentive to your lectures/tutorials/go there to study in the library over Melbourne

I'm surprised at how lazy I can be to contemplate over going to a tutorial or not despite monash being 15-20 minutes away whereas if I went to melbourne I'd probably skip it  due to overall ceebs of having to get there and back

[mystikal]

everything has been said above, but just wanted to reiterate that monash/melb uni basically have same standards in terms of commerce degree from an employers point of view for undergraduate. So you will not be disadvantaged if you went to monash instead of melb uni for job opportunities.

Probably the only majors that I would put melb uni above monash would be acturial studies (its fairly new at monash) and finance (some IB firms tend to favour UoM more sometimes, but its becoming less)

[morantz]

Bear in mind that Monash are more renowned for their Law department despite Melb Uni offering a great Commerce course on a whole.

[Fyrefly]

If you want to major in Actuarial Studies, then go to UoM. Otherwise, you're best off going for the convenience of Monash.

[GoldenPie]

Thank you all for your advice!

I want to major in Accounting, but I'm not completely sure that's what I want to do. So I'm planning on studying Commerce to study most or all of the commerce subjects to see which one I like and enjoy most and major in that subject.

Thank you again for your help! I really appreciate it!