chris and farideh

Fees in the world of uni, even more expensive than Harvard, we are looking into Uni for eldest son, so Bond uni had open day today, so off we went, beautiful uni, but, I think most people who go to that place must have more money than sense.
They only charge you $80,000 to $100,000 books are not included, its private, they fast track degrees into 2 years, but the degrees are not honours, so I really dont understand what is so special about them?

Love to hear your thought on Australian Uni please.

debsy

Farideh,
Depends if you are loaded and in a hurry. I have lots of great things about Bond - they do have scholarships, so that might be worth investigating.

I also think it depends on what your son decides to study, you will need then to find out what Uni is best for that subject. IMO Griffith is a great uni, and it is a lot cheaper but it takes a bit longer.
Regards
Debs

chris and farideh

Hi Debs,

Time is not the issue, he has chosen 3 Uni which he is most interested, one is in ACT, one in Adelaide & one in Queensland.

rabsody

As far as I understand it, Bond is the best for business degrees, like MBAs, so if that's his bag then go for it!

Don't forget, all of the standard degrees here (3 years) are Bachelor degrees not Honours. Honours is an optional year extra - so four years in total (and of course more money, they're not silly are they ).

What's he planning on studying Farideh?

chris and farideh

What they told us today its just ordinary degree & what they do is give marks from each module, like Open University.

He likes University of Queensland, I have to check their open day, I just hope we haven’t missed it.

He wants to study Economic as pure subject.

debsy

Oh well, at least he doesnt want to do a med degree at Bond - that is about $270K

chris and farideh

They told us it was $100,000, I tell you they rip you off.

It was really lovely uni, but you need to be a bit rich, just a bit.

debsy

I think the "normal" undergrad degrees are about $100. However, law & Med are more expensive.

Stitch

Has he thought of Griffith? They have degree programs and have a good honours college.

Campuses at Nathan, Logan and Gold Coast.

Cheers

Ginny

chris and farideh

They told us that Med was $100,000. this is just for the 2 year degree, I'm sure if they need to do another 2 year the price would be another $100, 000 & so on.
she did say everything else was $80,000 including law.
she also said student can apply for government loan, & until they start earning decent wages, they dont have to pay back the loan, not cheap.
Other thing we notice there, it was very white uni, we didnt see any Asian or black student at all, not even one.

chris and farideh

Thanks Ginny, my son has been checking them but they rank very low in the world, where as queensland & the other 2 Uni are quite high up.
We cant check the ranking for Bond as they are private & very expensive.

torcraw

I have a Chinese-Canadian friend at Bond in a masters degree program who has several other Asians (from Canada and the U.S.) and an African-American as schoolmates in her faculty, so perhaps you were just looking in the wrong place.

I understand Bond to be quite a reputable school, and like many private universities, rarely do students ever actually pay the full "official" tuition, there's usually a lot of scholarships or grants to be had.

chris and farideh

Every student who was showing people around or offering to help with subjects were white, we didnt see not one single asian or anything else there we were there from11 till 4 oclock, why would do I have to make it up, when I'm not white myself.

Ozzidoc

Remember, the medical degrees in the UK cost £250K - almost entirely subsidised by the government.

torcraw

Can't answer on that one, although I was just looking at her Facebook photos of the Bond Open Day (literally 5 minutes prior to seeing this thread, so this obviously caught my eye), and there are photos of her working a booth as was her African-American friend.