I am considering going to either Latrobe, RMIT or Swinburne. However does Swinburne have a bad reputation?
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I think Swinburne University is a good university.
I am from Europe and I came to do research here.
By a research perspective they are going very well. PhD students have got plenty of possibilities.
You don't have to forget that it was not born a lot of years ago.
Therefore the Uni is trying to going up and up and up
on the other hand old universities as Melbourne university or Monash don't need to look after that much their students as they have already a name
Swinburne's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing is highly regarded
I have a lot of friends from that department and they are coming from a lot of countries: Canada, US, Hungary, Italy, France, the UK, Germany
so... it must not be that 'bad' don't you think so?
Additionally it is pretty internationally oriented.
It is attracting many relevant professors to carry on building its reputation.
Therefore you might meet very good academics who graduated from good universities but now they are working in Swinburne.
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I think Swinburne might offer a lot of different opportunities.
I find a lot of students who are coming for an exchange like people from Denmark, Sweden and Germany for example.
I myself come from a very good university in Europe (within the first 200 in the world)
I chose Swinburne for my PhD :-D
I applied only here and now I have also the opportunity to go overseas for my research.