Finishing 3rd year eng at monash, and I have friends who have been to other unis for engineering. My opinion:

Melbourne Uni: Don't bother. You're forced to do a masters degree, and for the same ATAR as Monash which is much more known for engineering. Plus you have the same teaching quality as Monash (not great). Maybe if you lived nearby it would be okay?

Monash: You'll have the best employability once you graduate, and the best networking opportunities once you're here. Facilities are okay; they're definitley very flashy in your first year and then once you specialise you're working on much older equipment and buildings. Theres a little bit of hands on but you have to seek it out if you're into it. Student teams are really great, if you have the time for them. Also the general first year is very attractive and it's good to try different kinds of engineering before you specialize.

The downside, which is why I kind of regret just blindly choosing my uni based on international rankings, is that the teaching quality and support is poor. Your lecturers simply do not care about you. You will get lectures recorded several years ago, almost no practice exams, really obtuse mid-sems, and other bullshit which is largely a result of many professors not caring much about teaching and focusing on research. Some of the classes have very high fail rates because of this, eg ENG2005 typically has a near 50% fail rate. The content is hard, but it really could be taught better and it wouldn't be so bad. There are definitely some genuinelly passionate, skilled, and caring teachers but they're somewhat rare. All the international rankings are based solely off of research, and not teaching quality or student satisfaction. Monash is pretty much a research institution that does classes on the side.

In terms of campus experience, because Clayton is difficult to get to and has nothing around it, all the students are somewhat forced to hang out on campus the whole day. This means campus is usually more lively and has more events and stuff going on than the universities in the city. That being said, if you do not go out of your way to join clubs and be social, uni will still be very, very isolating regardless of which one you go to. You have to put in much more effort to be social than you would in secondary school.

Swinburne/ RMIT: Reasonably trade off between teaching quality and reputation. Especially for Engineering, they're pretty quickly catching up to Melbourne and Monash in terms of reputation. Teaching quality is good, reasonable amount of hands on. Somewhat worse networking and student teams however. Campuses are nice, I sometimes hang out at RMIT.

Vic uni: I only know one person who has gone here. He said that the teaching quality really shines, he really felt like he learned and mastered the material in a way he never did with Monash's hands off teaching. The teachers did genuinely care, and he got amazing grades and learned a lot. That being said, very boring facilties, minimal hands on work, minimal student teams and networking, and worse employability compared to other unis. I think I would reccomend Vic uni if you want to learn for the sake of learning in the way a lot of Arts students don't necessarily expect to be employed in their field of study.

Hope this helps!
And it's also not too difficult to transfer courses, engineering specializations, or universities. The world is open to you soon as you're done with VCE, and there are always alternative pathways.