This article will take you to understand the study abroad in the Uk from the three aspects of Australia's national conditions, Australian higher education system and Australian study abroad, and small partners in need can collect backup!
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We usually say That Australia actually refers to Australia and New Zealand, but the study abroad situation in New Zealand is generally similar to Thato, so we usually put the study of these two countries together. Today, we will focus on the introduction of Australia, and please refer directly to Australia for studying in New Zealand.
Located between the South Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Australia is a country surrounded by the sea, with a variety of the most beautiful natural scenery, the Gold Coast, coral reefs, desert boulders, ocean archipelagos and so on, attracting many people to visit every year. The livable environment has also made it a diversified immigrant country, with about 670,000 overseas Chinese alone, accounting for 3.41% of the total population.
Australia sits on a special geographical location and has a very good performance in agriculture and mining: the country with the largest export volume of various minerals is called "the country sitting on the mining cart"; the world's fourth largest agricultural exporter, the world's largest number of sheep and wool exports, known as "the country on the back of the sheep". As a result, Australia has become the most economically developed country in the Southern Hemisphere and the 12th largest economy in the world.
Looking at the flag of Australia, the most conspicuous is the "rice flag" in the upper left corner, that is, the British flag pattern, which directly represents the historical and traditional relationship between Australia and the United Kingdom: Australia is a member of the Commonwealth, and the Queen of England is the head of state of Australia. The largest seven-pointed star in the lower left corner symbolizes the six states and two commonwealth territories (northern territory and capital territory) that make up the Commonwealth of Australia, and the five small stars represent the southern cross constellation, indicating that Australia's geographical location is in the southern hemisphere.
Many people who don't know much about Australia always think that Australia's capital is Sydney or Melbourne, where the city is stronger, but in fact, Australia's capital is Canberra. This was due to the fact that Sydney and Melbourne did not give up their position as capitals at that time, and finally the government decided not to choose either city, but to choose a new city as the capital in the middle of the two cities, and finally Canberra was elected.
Although Canberra's economic situation was not very good at the beginning, many people jokingly called it "Kan Village", but later with the support of the federal government, good policies and resources, Canberra soon flourished.
Although Canberra has a certain status in Australia's politics and culture, but in terms of economy, vitality and popularity, it is far from being compared with Sydney and Melbourne, Canberra can only be equivalent to the size of small cities in the domestic fourth-tier cities, and international students studying in Australia will also set the first choice city as Sydney or Melbourne.
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Australia's education is among the best in the world, with a total of 42 universities in the country, except for 2 private universities (Bond University, Notre Dame University), the rest are public universities. Seven of these 42 schools rank in the top 100 in the world every year, which is no less than China, which has more than 3,000 universities and only 6 of the world's top 100.
Australian universities distinguish between good and bad stars, which is what we often hear about as five-star universities or four-star universities. Star ratings are based on indicators such as the international ranking of universities, local word of mouth, foreign word of mouth, student word of mouth, employment rate, employment starting salary, school environment, teacher satisfaction, number of international famous professors (who have won major awards, such as Nobel) and other indicators. Of course, sandstone institutions are also used to refer to a university of a certain architectural style: before the First World War, australia's six oldest institutions of higher learning were built, and their buildings used sandstone as the external material of the building.
Five-star in Australia (Australia's top 8): Australian National University, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, Monash University, University of Adelaide, University of Western Australia.
Australia 4 stars: Macquarie University, Griffith University, Newcastle University, University of Wollongong, University of Tasmania, RMIT, Queensland University of Technology, University of Technology Sydney, La Trobe University, Bond University, Deakin University, University of South Australia.
Australian 3 stars: Swinburne National University of Technology, Flinders University, Western Sydney University, Curtin University of Technology, Murdoch University, University of Canberra, Central Queensland University, James Cook University.
QS Top 300 Australian Schools
In the top 300 of the 2022 QS World Rankings, Australia has 17 universities on the list, and it can be seen from this data that the quality of higher education in Australia is among the leading in the world. However, judging from the results of these years of applications, although Australia's universities are ranked first in the world, compared with other overseas universities at the same level, the application difficulty of Australian schools is the lowest!
That is to say, the difficulty of applying to the top 100 schools in the world in Australia is much lower than that of the top 100 schools in the world in the United Kingdom and the United States, and the competition in Australian schools seems to be less intense. For example, the University of Sydney or the University of Adelaide, the world ranking is already quite high, but the difficulty of application is very low, which may be related to the sparse population of Australia, and Australia hopes to attract more people to Australia by attracting study abroad.
Australia's academic system is similar to that of the United Kingdom, although each state will have a separate education bureau to administer, but the higher education stage is generally the same, undergraduate 3 years, master's degree 1-1.5 years.
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1. The college entrance examination directly enters the undergraduate freshman year
More and more Australian universities are taking the gaokao directly, including the eight universities in Australia (except the University of Melbourne) have also followed suit. Considering the fact that Australia has a population of only 20 million, the admission conditions are relatively low, and the Australian universities at the same level in China have a full hundred points lower than the requirements for the college entrance examination score in China!
For example, in 2017, the Australian National University, which ranked 20th in the world, had a minimum admission line of 525 points in Shandong, while Tsinghua University (ranked 25th in the world) at the same level had a minimum admission line of 662 points in Shandong. Therefore, every year, many students who are unwilling to study two books in China will consider going straight to a higher-ranking university in Australia to study for undergraduate studies.
The following are the requirements for the college entrance examination results of the eight major universities in Australia (except for the University of Mexico):
2. Preparatory + undergraduate freshman
For students whose college entrance examination scores are not satisfactory and want to enter the eight universities in Australia, they can choose to study in the preparatory courses of Australian universities. Preparatory courses generally do not need to look at the college entrance examination results, only need students to provide the usual grades of more than 4 semesters in the high school stage, that is to say, students applying for preparatory courses must at least complete the second year of high school.
Most preparatory admission criteria are a high school grade average of around 70-80, with an IELTS requirement of 5.0-5.5. The advantage of studying preparatory courses is that schools that originally need to reach a line or so in order to enter the college entrance examination, as long as the preparatory examination scores reach 6.5 GPA (out of 10), you can enter. In general, 60% of the students in a class can have a GPA of 6.5 or above.
The following are the preparatory departments of several mainstream schools in Australia:
3. International freshman course + undergraduate sophomore year
Australia also provides international students with a pathway course, commonly known as the International Freshman Course, or the Freshman Diploma Program, which is equivalent to the integration of the Preparatory Course and the Freshman Course, and students need to meet all the requirements of the International Freshman Year, and they can seamlessly and directly enter the sophomore year.
Therefore, the biggest advantage of the international freshman course is that it will save a year compared to the preparatory course. Some of the admission conditions require college entrance examination results, and some only look at the usual grades of high school, and the requirements are between the direct entrance examination and the preparatory department.
The most demanding of the eight is the international freshman program of the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales, which need to refer to the results of the college entrance examination:
The international freshman programs of other eight australian schools do not require college entrance examination results, and only need to provide a high school diploma and high school grades to apply:
4. Through various cooperative training programs, transfer to An Australian university as an undergraduate
At present, there are many cooperative training programs in China, which can make the college entrance examination not meet the requirements of the ideal domestic institutions, and students who are not fully prepared to go abroad directly have the opportunity to study undergraduate in Australia, that is, many 2+2 domestic 2 years abroad 2 years, or 3+1 domestic 3 years foreign 1 year training programs.
The first is the Sino-foreign cooperative education project (2+2, 3+1, 4+0): there are many universities in China that have long carried out Sino-foreign cooperation with Australian universities, and most of them were originally enrolled in the plan, that is, they need to pass the college entrance examination to study. In recent years, some Sino-foreign cooperative schools have also approved the development of unplanned enrollment, that is, students participate in the school's independent enrollment examination to enroll. Sino-foreign cooperative schools can only be carried out after the approval of the Ministry of Education or local education departments, so if you want to choose a cooperative school project suitable for your own situation, you can log in to the inquiry.
The second is the study abroad training program (2 + 2): the study abroad training program is jointly carried out by the China Study Abroad Service Center and domestic institutions of higher learning with training qualifications, aiming to provide study abroad training services, which belongs to the nature of training, does not belong to Sino-foreign cooperative schools, and has an essential difference with Sino-foreign cooperative schools. Students can complete the two years of study in China, insert the sophomore year in Australia in the form of transfer credits, and then complete the two-year courses of the sophomore and junior years of the Australian university, and obtain the undergraduate diploma of the Australian university.
It is worth noting that the overseas schools that are docked with Chinese-foreign cooperative schools are generally a fixed one and cannot apply for schools other than those approved by the Ministry of Education; the level of undergraduate colleges in Australia that can be docked by study abroad training programs will not be very high, and the list of specific docking institutions can be queried.
Final reminder: when we choose the direction of study abroad and apply for colleges, we must make more comparisons, do not blindly pursue the ranking of colleges, and must choose schools and majors that are suitable for us. When choosing a study abroad method, study abroad program and school, you should also pay more attention to the websites of these two countries and check clearly, so as not to mistakenly enter Pheasant University and affect the academic qualification certification after returning home.