Biomed/Eng @ monash vs. Biomed @ uom

[dptjandra]

Regardless of how much it costs, if it's your dream course, then you won't let money hold you back, (unless you can't get any fee loan thingos). If you do Biomed/Eng, after your 5 years you can either work as an engineer or get into postgrad medicine.

If you do just Biomed at UoM, then the only eng option you have is Biomedical Engineering. I would pick the first option. After a few years, you'll probably know if you'd rather do Medicine or Engineering and thus can drop either part of the degree to focus on the other. At UoM, you'd be stuck into biomed unless you transfer over to science. Also the double degree will allow you to experience Biomed and Engineering in more depth than UoM's degree which in my opinion is a much better thing to do

That said, you could always do engineering subjects as breadth at Melb Uni doing biomed and work out which side interests you more, then go for the graduate course in either...7 year med vs. 9 year if you changed your mind going to monash, or 6 yr (?) eng vs. 5 yr eng.  If you do biomed/eng at monash, is the engineering geared towards biomedical engineering or just engineering generally?  similarly with engineering masters after biomed?  in either case, if you were considering biomed/engineering, you would probably have quite an interest in biomedical engineering.