Quality of teaching and/or resources at RMIT/Melbourne?

[Chromeo33]

So in the thick of exams, I've pretty much narrowed my university prospects down to either Melbourne or RMIT - since I'd essentially be doing the same degree at both unis - but im still torn over which to choose! With December 16th coming up soon, I need to make a decision!

So my question is, is the quality of teaching and/or resources at Melbourne just generally head and shoulders above all other universities? Would it make an incredible difference to my education/knowledge if I were to go to Melbourne instead of RMIT?

If it helps, I'd be doing Science @ Melb or Engineering (Biomedical) @ RMIT (assuming I achieve the necessary ATAR!)

And I've heard the engineering department at RMIT is 'the best' in Victoria. Is that true?

Any advice would be much appreciated

[schmalex]

Basically, I doubt that anybody here has had enough experience with BOTH universities to compare. There are independent rankings, that would rank Melbourne higher, but for everybody who brings them up a bunch of people will be like "what a snob, rankings are shit." So you're unlikely to get a straight answer really. If you just want to be an engineer, I'm sure either university would be alright.

[simpak]

I think the major difference would be needing to wait until postgrad to do Engineering v. doing it right away.  So consider that, I'd say.

[schmalex]

It's not ENTIRELY different though, because you do engineering subjects in undergraduate, and a bunch of the science subjects are the same as you'd do in the straight degree anyway. So the difference is just the extra year I guess. Also, if you go to RMIT you might have a lecture in a movie theatre That's about all I can think of though

[simpak]

Omggg yes my friends have spoken of these lectures in the movie theatres I am jealous.

[Chromeo33]

I guess the most essential question I'm trying to ask is: Would I gain more knowledge from doing the Bachelor's + Master's @ Melbourne compared to the single Bachelor's @ RMIT?

(And those movie lectures sound pretty damn cool)

[Truck]

I heard that Monash had the best engineering faculty in Australia or something?

[berryy]

im doing the whole engineering pathway with melb atm, so i can tell you that maths is generally taught well in your first year, engineering is okay - it can get hard and physics is absolutely shittttttttt

[Chromeo33]

im doing the whole engineering pathway with melb atm, so i can tell you that maths is generally taught well in your first year, engineering is okay - it can get hard and physics is absolutely shittttttttt

Whoa, the physics is shit? How so?

[simpak]

They just teach it like a bitch.
I don't like the way that they teach it.

They should have some slides and then go through the problems in class properly (ie, work out the problem in pen under the projector so you can follow along) but in my experience with Physics all I have received is messy slides and copious amounts of scaling because there is no way I did well enough on the exam to get a H1.

[funkyducky]

^ It can't be as bad as Monash physics - if there's one thing I've heard turns kids off their monash undergrad degrees in science/biomed/eng/etc, it's the shit quality of the physics courses. One of my cousins started biomed/commerce at monash this year, dropped biomed after two weeks because the physics was killing him. On the other hand, both my brother and another cousin did engineering @ melbourne and seemed to be fine with it (although my brother is a total physics nerd...)

[simpak]

It was the first time I had ever studied Physics!  I found it quite confusing, I understood sound and the general force stuff better than optics...

[funkyducky]

These unis really need to have an introductory physics option and a continuing physics option for kids who have/haven't done VCE physics, respectively - especially for courses where physics is a core unit in some way, but not a prereq.

[simpak]

I hadn't done VCE Physics!  Mine was Fundamentals - it goes over Year 12 stuff and then catches up to those who are doing Physics 1.  Difficult course >: so much squished in to 12 weeks.

[LOVEPHYSICS]

Go Melbourne. It is the place to be.