How do you make a decision when it comes to studying in Macquaire City campus or North Ryde?
It doesn't matter if you are an international student or local students, both campuses has their merits. This review is to give an honest opinion of the plus and minuses of each from A STUDENT that has been to both. This review will be broken up into 2 elements, the study and timetable
The Study
The most important thing to know about the the two campuses is the final outcome of the study. Why are we all spending all these money for? (especially international students) To get a degree after all these time and money spending during this period, a degree that will be recognized and accepted by future employees, an environment that will hopefully teach us important life skill and skills that are particular to our studies.
If you didn't know North Ryde(NR), is the "main campus", and of cause it would have more choices when it comes to the choices of degrees and various majors. You will get a larger range of choices when it comes to the degree and classes, meaning you will have more flexibility with timetables(to certain extent, will be discussed later). In city campus you are limited to just several key degrees, for example in my case, they did not offer bachelor of com- accounting, but rather they only offered bachelor of com- professional accounting. So BEFORE you go further maybe perhaps you should look up on their websites, if the degree you desire is included. So back to what we were talking about, the outcome, on paper the degree that you receive from either campuses are the same, you will get the same recognition and acceptance from the outside world. However, what is important is the juice you get from the degree, how much you gain from the experience. Picture this in your head going to a lecture with 500 other students and one with 20-40 students with the same lecturer, which do you think you will get the most benefit from? which one would you get a better interaction from? which one would the lecturer know you by name from? I will leave this for you to decide, but city campus is the one with 20-40 students per lectures.
Time table
It is also important to know that in NR, tutorials and lectures are separated, meaning you will have to select one of each for every class, where as in city campus the two are always together. Having the the two separated is can be a good thing or a curse, in my experience, although it gives me more flexibility when it comes to creating my timetable, it also gave me a lot of headache. As I mentioned earlier there are many students studying the same subject as you, at time exceeding 1000+ students, the tutorials that may suit your lecture times are always taken, so at time you would be stuck in uni just because you have a lecture at 10 in the morning and a tutorial at 6 in the evening. This of cause can be avoided if you are a very proactive students and would not mind spending a lot of time doing this. Another problem with this is that at times your tutorial and lecture time can be separated for a few days, and may lose the continuation that you would get from the city campus. Where as in the city campus you always have the tutorial before or after your lectures, meaning when you are studying 4 courses instead of 8 classes to choose from and you only need to choose 4, that may not seem like much but you are saving yourself from a lot of drama.
Again these are all my personal opinion of why you should study in the city campus, but please haters please do comment on why I am wrong.
This is end of part 1 of this series, but please dont forget to come back more.
J. Dasho.
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