One of the top 3 destinations for international students, Australia has seen a surge of education opportunities. It has a diverse culture and friendly locals in addition to a wide array of career opportunities. In the southern hemisphere, Australia has varied types of weather conditions. It is famous for the tourist destinations of the Sydney Opera House and the Great Barrier Reef and is also the animal of Kangaroo seen only in Australia. In spite of being the 6th largest country by landmass, it is more sparsely populated than the other 5 predecessors. It has the great outback which is the area that is not conducive to population and civilization. However, Australia has been seen to be one of the faster-growing countries for education exploration.
Of the total top 100 universities in the world, Australia is home to 30 of them. It has high technological advancement giving a practical approach to their students making them ready for the career right from the classrooms.
The universities provide excellent range of education right from art to business and management as well as engineering and life sciences with varied specializations. It also is high in research as the government supplied funds for the various domains of research. At least one Australian university in the top 50 worldwide have courses across the study areas of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Life & Agricultural Sciences, Clinical Medicine & Pharmacy and Physics.
The country has been home to the best of the minds and will provide a good exposure for the entire gamut of courses. Of over 2.5 million former international students have eventually have been the crowd from where Australia has produced about 15 Nobel prize laureates and every day over 1 billion people around the world rely on Australian discoveries and innovations including penicillin, IVF, ultrasound, Wi-Fi, the Bionic Ear, cervical cancer vaccine and Black Box Flight Recorders to make their lives, and the lives of others, better.
The country provides ample options for the students to pursue their education without worrying about finances. Grants and bursaries are offered by the Australian Government, as well as universities and a number of other public and private organizations in India and abroad. Students can look for Australia Awards and Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships offered by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT), the Department of Education and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).
Australia is the fourth happiest country in the world (Prosperity Index 2012) and they have five of the 30 best cities in the world for students. Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth have been the top cities housing universities of high caliber making them most attractive to the students.
In total, Australia has 43 universities with 40 Australian universities, two international universities, and one private specialty university. Along with these universities, various other institutions offer higher education courses and are regulated under a national regulatory and quality agency for higher education the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). It helps to monitor quality, and regulate university and non-university higher education providers against a set of standards developed by the independent Higher Education Standards Panel.
The education system is as follows:
Associate
Foundation
Bachelor’s Degree (Hons)
Graduate Certificate
Graduate Diploma
Master’s Degree
Doctoral Degree
Undergraduate: Rs. 60-70 Lakhs
PG Diploma: Rs. 35-40 Lakhs
Doctoral program
All universities and colleges require an IELTS score ranging from 6.0 (undergraduate courses) to minimum of 6.5 band (post graduate courses).
A few universities may also accept a TOEFL score of minimum 80 for undergraduate course and minimum 90 for postgraduate course.
Certain colleges may also offer a waiver of the English language eligibility test if the student has scored a minimum of 70% in English Language in the X and XII standard and if the medium of instruction throughout school and college was in English.
