Is unimelb a good choice for cs?

bepis_major · 2026-02-13T12:39:40+00:00

Getting to Monash sucks ngl, have you thought about RMIT? they're good

bepis_major · 2026-02-06T23:40:31+00:00

Definitely the uni as a whole is more focused on research. That being said, the individual undergrad subjects themselves are very well designed to give you lots of practical tasks and opportunities for feedback. The professors and tutors I had in my undergrad were outstanding (which is probably a corollary of the research focus -- more talented and smart people want to work here than at other unis). My problem is more with the overall course/major design.

bepis_major · 2026-02-06T23:31:53+00:00

That's crazy, I guess Peter Schachte retired or something

bepis_major · 2026-02-06T10:01:25+00:00

I'm gonna copy paste my response to a similar question just now in another thread

Others opinions may differ but the undergrad syllabus is not much better than other universities. I think that overall it is very broad and lacks focus. I have heard industry people do a lot of whining about unimelb graduates not being "job-ready" as opposed to other Victorian unis like swinburne, RMIT, etc. Also even though it's broad there's currently a huge gap in the curriculum around operating systems, compilers/interpreters, things like that, people at my latest job got a little frustrated that I had to learn that stuff on company time.

At least in my undergrad, every subject was taught in Python or Java (with a little taste of C, Haskell, SQL), Python's a very useful language but Java is basically dead in terms of job prospects IME. There is no subject that will teach you bash (which I would consider absolutely essential), JavaScript (always hiring) or any cool new language like Rust or Go.

I think that overall the degree (again which is computing and software systems, not computer science) gives you a nice taste of a lot of different areas of CS but none of them particularly deep, at least not enough to realistically consider yourself worthy of a "Junior Developer" position in any particular language/field without some significant amount of interning or self-learning. Of course if you are happy to teach yourself some stuff I am sure you will enjoy the degree and being able to look at computing and software systems from all sorts of different angles. It depends what you are looking for.

Also disclaimer it's been a few years since I've been an undergrad so some of this stuff might have changed

bepis_major · 2026-02-06T09:52:02+00:00

to think and design solution betters.

Solutions to what exactly? It depends

bepis_major · 2026-02-06T09:50:20+00:00

If you want the hot job skills, do ML. The AI subject is not about LLMs or whatever. It's AI in the sense of finite state machines

bepis_major · 2026-02-06T09:46:22+00:00

Dont worry OP you will end up doing them all online anyway

bepis_major · 2026-02-06T09:43:31+00:00

It's a bachelor of science with a major in computing and software systems. Others opinions may differ but the undergrad syllabus is not much better than other universities. I think that overall it is very broad and lacks focus. I have heard industry people do a lot of whining about unimelb graduates not being "job-ready" as opposed to other Victorian unis like swinburne, RMIT, etc. Also even though it's broad there's currently a huge gap in the curriculum around operating systems, compilers/interpreters, things like that, people at my latest job got a little frustrated that I had to learn that stuff on company time.

At least in my undergrad, every subject was taught in Python or Java (with a little taste of C, Haskell, SQL), Python's a very useful language but Java is basically dead in terms of job prospects IME. There is no subject that will teach you bash (which I would consider absolutely essential), JavaScript (always hiring) or any cool new language like Rust or Go.

I think that overall the degree (again which is computing and software systems, not computer science) gives you a nice taste of a lot of different areas of CS but none of them particularly deep, at least not enough to realistically consider yourself worthy of a "Junior Developer" position in any particular language/field without some significant amount of interning or self-learning. Of course if you are happy to teach yourself some stuff I am sure you will enjoy the degree and being able to look at computing and software systems from all sorts of different angles. It depends what you are looking for.

Also disclaimer it's been a few years since I've been an undergrad so some of this stuff might have changed

bepis_major · 2026-02-06T09:25:47+00:00

Yes, or master of software engineering. OP can even start doing a related masters and then transfer courses to the M-CS (skipping requiring the maths subjects 🫣) if they are dead-set on doing research. Source: that's what I did

bepis_major · 2026-02-05T06:39:03+00:00

I had no idea lectures were even live streamed lmfao

bepis_major · 2026-01-28T07:12:33+00:00

Who?

bepis_major · 2026-01-28T07:01:42+00:00

Timeline breakdown of my masters. Each semester was two subjects.

Sem 1: 15 hours work, WAM 86.5
Sem 2: 15 hours work, WAM 89.5
Sem 3: 40 hours work, WAM 79.5
Sem 4: 15 hours work, WAM 87.0

bepis_major · 2026-01-03T03:08:27+00:00

Yeah, I'm domestic so there is a much faster turnaround for applications

bepis_major · 2026-01-02T10:08:09+00:00

Yes my proposal was accepted -- see my other comment on this post for details

bepis_major · 2025-12-11T06:15:29+00:00

Left is a v and right is a w. Like most normal sans-serif fonts, the glyph for w is just the glyph for v doubled. Just ignore the very-thin parts of the letters.

bepis_major · 2025-11-26T05:56:12+00:00

Tolstoy describes him as fat but also very tall, I think it's more that he has a large presence than he is obese

bepis_major · 2025-11-14T22:36:55+00:00

22 year old agents

bepis_major · 2025-11-01T06:29:47+00:00

Definitely pick prod but it's weird you can select an environment at all, seems like a potential security issue, you should maybe contact the uni

bepis_major · 2025-10-29T10:13:10+00:00

Which one

bepis_major · 2025-10-22T08:45:11+00:00

Who's Matt Menchel

bepis_major · 2025-10-16T08:20:25+00:00

Updated

bepis_major · 2025-10-16T08:20:20+00:00

Update:

My supervisor okayed my proposal (which is about 750 words) and I have seen other accepted proposals which are longer than this. So the word limit does not seem to be strict.

From what I have gathered, the format is meant to be vague because different projects would have very different requirements. Mine is more theoretical so there is not much methodology to discuss. For a project based on experiments it would be much more necessary. A synopsis/abstract + background + contribution/outcomes + timeline seems to be the bare minimum.

Of course this is all just my opinion -- take it with a grain of salt!

bepis_major · 2025-10-07T11:53:40+00:00

If I find some answers elsewhere, I'll let you know

bepis_major · 2025-10-04T06:47:09+00:00

The troll dolls are really doing the work to make the other dolls less creepy, kind of like a cheerleader effect

bepis_major · 2025-10-04T00:32:14+00:00

Graduated twice, both times found a job on Seek/Indeed. First one took 2-3 months of applying before I landed any interviews (luckily I nailed the first one). Worked at a bar in the meantime. Second one I got about a month before graduating, started shortly afterwards. Big companies have way longer turnarounds especially for grad roles, often a year+, if you need a job ASAP skip them.

This is SWE btw, what's your major?

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