- More flexibility in choosing courses, no annoying breadth program
Flexibility is subjective.
At monash you have to take a broad sequence of science subjects (At least in the regular BSc, not sure about scholars program). Which means either choosing from
one of these two options:
(1) 3 sets of two science subjects, that they choose. Eg. Set 1:[Chemistry 1 & Chemistry 2] Set 2: [Biology 1 & Enviromental Biology] Set 3:[Something & Something]Keep in mind *the university* chooses the sets. It might be great for some people but it isn't great for others (me especially)
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(2) One subject from each of the life sciences, physical sciences and earth sciencesSo maybe one unit of biology, one of chemistry and one of some kind of geography.
Again im sure plenty of people don't have interest in all 3 areas and will be forced (like me) to pick up a subject they don't want. I really don't want to blow a unit on geography but it was the best i could find out of the earth sciences section.
Also you have to take one approved mathematics unit which i am also not a fan of but you may go for that.
so thats already 2 units i dont want to take. Considering its 4 a semester, half of a semester ill be doing shit i don't want to.
I personally would find the melbourne breadth much much less annoying, i mean as someone said above it doesn't have to be history of english literature or anything like that. I'm sure you must have an interest in *something* outside of science right? even if you don't they have some "sciencey" breadth subjects that anyone can take.
Just my 2 cents.
[Besides that employment prospects would be more or less similar. Also consider if you actually want to do honours, it'd suck doing it if you didn't want to be there and it would just waste a year of your time. Then again, you can leave the science scholar program early without doing honours as far as im aware.]