Melbourne vs. Monash Medicine: Should I Study Medicine at Monash or Melbourne University?
4 years ago by Robert
Melbourne or Monash for medicine? That is the question.
It's a question often asked by aspiring med students: 'should I study medicine at Melbourne or Monash?' To help you make up your own mind, we've compiled a clear, concise and simple breakdown of each of the available medicine pathways at Melbourne and Monash. For a comparison of UCAT against the GAMSAT please see the following article: 'UCAT or GAMSAT? which is harder? which is easier?'.
In summary, Medicine via UCAT at Monash is far better for the students and their parents, but GMASAT route at Melbourne is better for the university.
Monash Medicine entry requirements
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| CSP | Full Fee | |
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Most students do an honours or Masters or other advanced degrees before entering med, so the cost is higher. |
University of Melbourne Medicine requirements
| GPA | GAMSAT | Interview |
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Weighted is calculated by weighting the first of the final three years by 1, the second year by 2 and the final year by 3. |
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The interview component will be a 8 station Multiple Mini Interview. Each station takes 5 minutes and has a single interviewer. |
| Bio-medical science or science undergrad | ||
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Duration: 3 years full time Fees: CSP approx. $11,000 AUD p/a Total mininum course cost: approx. $33,000 AUD
Entry into science/ biomed science is based on your ATAR only.
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Other important things to note:
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The law prevents Australian universities from charging full fee for undergraduate university places. Thus, in order to make greater profits from full-fee paying students, universities must do so by creating a graduate pathway entry system.
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Monash won't let you transfer once you have commenced an undergraduate degree elsewhere. So should you choose to re-sit the UCAT a second time, because regardless of your score, you will be ineligible for Monash medicine if you have commenced an undergraduate degree elsewhere.
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Only the first 2 years of medicine at Monash are at the Clayton campus. The rest consist of clinical programs conducted at a variety of hospitals and other health service clinics.
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To be eligible for medicine at Melbourne, there are no pre-requisite courses from 2022, so you can do any first degree. Their Bio-med degree popularity has been waning and the relative demand into med has been waning too, so they have taken this step of opening up entry to all.
The above is an interpretive table of the Melbourne and Monash models' for medicine by MedEntry. For more detailed, accurate and official information please see the respective Monash and Melbourne university websites. The information above is relevant to and intended for Australian domestic students only.
