How much will full fee med at melb cost?

[roly182]

Hey guys. Found out i can get a guaranteed full fee place in postgrad med at melbourne as my enter was 99.25.
Does anybody know how i could go about paying for this course and how much it is likely to be?
Could i do fee-help through HECS?
Or will i be able to take out a loan at a bank or something?
Any help would be really appreciated!

[xox.happy1.xox]

And they didn't give you a scholarship with that awesome ENTER score?

But in all honesty, be a tutor. You get good money, and have achieved excellent results n your studies. And best of all, if you are privately tutoring, you won't need to give half of your money to a tutoring organisation that you work for!

Or start some kind of job. I like temping. ... It's not fixed, and the pay is great compared to retail.

I guess you could get a HECS debt, but you'd want to pay it off as soon as possible, as it will probably build up in interest at the end of the year? (Don't really know how HECS works XD)

Well, good luck, you will do really well in Medicine.

[brendan]

FEE-HELP only goes up to about $100k for a medical degree. But the whole course will probably cost around $250k so you will need to find the other $150k. I don't know that banks will lend money for this kind of stuff here in Australia anyway, particularly given the credit crisis.

[shinny]

My friend asked their careers co-ordinator, and it is supposedly a massive $40k a year. In the end, its roughly $190k for the med, and $25k for the CSP bio-med. I can't guarantee the truth of these numbers though. As for the rest of your questions, I have no idea how any of that works.

[roly182]

Oh ohk thanks guys. So does anybody know anyone doing full-fee med? I dont come from a wealthy family so i couldnt pay for it like that, and part time job though uni i am certain would not be enough! So is this really an option for me?

[bturville]

Does anybody know how they allocate the CSP places in the graduate degrees @ UoM?

[BA22]

Yeh, the full fee amount for undergrad med was about $40k, so i would expect it to be the same

Does anybody know how they allocate the CSP places in the graduate degrees @ UoM?

I suppose like all degrees, by merit, otherwise i'm not sure what you mean

[shinny]

Yeh, the full fee amount for undergrad med was about $40k, so i would expect it to be the same

Does anybody know how they allocate the CSP places in the graduate degrees @ UoM?

I suppose like all degrees, by merit, otherwise i'm not sure what you mean

What factors would influence the decision? Combination of GPA+GAMSAT+Interview? i.e. same as under-grad entry pretty much

[BA22]

Yeh, the full fee amount for undergrad med was about $40k, so i would expect it to be the same

Does anybody know how they allocate the CSP places in the graduate degrees @ UoM?

I suppose like all degrees, by merit, otherwise i'm not sure what you mean

What factors would influence the decision? Combination of GPA+GAMSAT+Interview? i.e. same as under-grad entry pretty much

Yeh, it'll pretty much the same way they chose applicants for their old graduate course, using those three criteria, the only difference being they have a guaranteed entry system now so that might take away a few of the spots

[doboman]

Oh ohk thanks guys. So does anybody know anyone doing full-fee med? I dont come from a wealthy family so i couldnt pay for it like that, and part time job though uni i am certain would not be enough! So is this really an option for me?

Probably not. Congrats on your score, but no, i dont think it's wise to be $250 000 in debt by the time you finish UNI.

This is what's wrong with the stupid Australian higher education system. The wealthy are allowed to enter Medical schools such as BOND UNI- with a significantly lower ENTER- just because they're 'rich'. Does being rich make you anymore competent at being a doctor/dentist? Further, is it fair that a person with a 99.XX misses out on medicine, because he/she are unable to pay of the MASSIVE fee for medicine?

I guess it's expected- given that Education is like the second biggest revenue maker in Australia.

/rant.

[BA22]

Oh ohk thanks guys. So does anybody know anyone doing full-fee med? I dont come from a wealthy family so i couldnt pay for it like that, and part time job though uni i am certain would not be enough! So is this really an option for me?

Probably not. Congrats on your score, but no, i dont think it's wise to be $250 000 in debt by the time you finish UNI.

This is what's wrong with the stupid Australian higher education system. The wealthy are allowed to enter Medical schools such as BOND UNI- with a significantly lower ENTER- just because they're 'rich'. Does being rich make you anymore competent at being a doctor/dentist? Further, is it fair that a person with a 99.XX misses out on medicine, because he/she are unable to pay of the MASSIVE fee for medicine?

I guess it's expected- given that Education is like the second biggest revenue maker in Australia.

/rant.

It costs alot to run a medical course and in the US, a USD$250,000 debt to a non-government third-party is pretty much standard

We offer people a better chance to med than any other country in the world i would argue

[brendan]

is it fair that a person with a 99.XX misses out on medicine, because he/she are unable to pay of the MASSIVE fee for medicine?

Is it fair that a person misses out on a ferrari because they are unable to pay 200k+? It's not like banning Bond Uni from offering full-fee med degrees is going to make any difference to the person who couldn't get a CSP place.

We offer people a better chance to med than any other country in the world i would argue

I am not so sure about that given the very high ENTER scores required due to restriction on the number of medical places that universities can offer due to government quotas.

[doboman]

Oh ohk thanks guys. So does anybody know anyone doing full-fee med? I dont come from a wealthy family so i couldnt pay for it like that, and part time job though uni i am certain would not be enough! So is this really an option for me?

Probably not. Congrats on your score, but no, i dont think it's wise to be $250 000 in debt by the time you finish UNI.

This is what's wrong with the stupid Australian higher education system. The wealthy are allowed to enter Medical schools such as BOND UNI- with a significantly lower ENTER- just because they're 'rich'. Does being rich make you anymore competent at being a doctor/dentist? Further, is it fair that a person with a 99.XX misses out on medicine, because he/she are unable to pay of the MASSIVE fee for medicine?

I guess it's expected- given that Education is like the second biggest revenue maker in Australia.

/rant.

It costs alot to run a medical course and in the US, a USD$250,000 debt to a non-government third-party is pretty much standard

We offer people a better chance to med than any other country in the world i would argue

Question is still there to. Why are rich people, who can afford full-fee, allowed to get into med with a lower ENTER, while those who get 99.XX cant?

[ed_saifa]

Oh ohk thanks guys. So does anybody know anyone doing full-fee med? I dont come from a wealthy family so i couldnt pay for it like that, and part time job though uni i am certain would not be enough! So is this really an option for me?

Probably not. Congrats on your score, but no, i dont think it's wise to be $250 000 in debt by the time you finish UNI.

This is what's wrong with the stupid Australian higher education system. The wealthy are allowed to enter Medical schools such as BOND UNI- with a significantly lower ENTER- just because they're 'rich'. Does being rich make you anymore competent at being a doctor/dentist? Further, is it fair that a person with a 99.XX misses out on medicine, because he/she are unable to pay of the MASSIVE fee for medicine?

I guess it's expected- given that Education is like the second biggest revenue maker in Australia.

/rant.

It costs alot to run a medical course and in the US, a USD$250,000 debt to a non-government third-party is pretty much standard

We offer people a better chance to med than any other country in the world i would argue

Question is still there to. Why are rich people, who can afford full-fee, allowed to get into med with a lower ENTER, while those who get 99.XX cant?

Money opens a lot of doors!

[brendan]

Why are rich people, who can afford full-fee, allowed to get into med with a lower ENTER, while those who get 99.XX cant?

There's a university willing to offer a place, and there is student willing to pay the price. Why should their agreement not be allowed?