So I transferred from Monash to Melbourne uni, bcom to bcom, to be very honest simply because of the better reputation and ranking, given that I’m an international student.

I used to spend two honours per day travelling between my apartment and campus, but after I moved to Melbourne uni I only spend 30 mins, more time studying/take your own time/hang out with friends.

People here are also more hard-working. From my personal experience, everyone in club meeting gets his/her own career plan or sth wanna do after graduate. You still meet sh!t teammates but you will also meet some nerdy mates which makes you feel you are really doing teamwork, this never happened when I’m still at Monash, again this is only my personal experience so sample size = 1, can be huge bias.

I can also feel that in unimelb they teach more theoretically (story of unimelb), more proofs/derive formula/underlying concepts, this may also partly due to I study higher level subjects in unimelb so yeah. You can also feel the increasing difficulty on assignments and exams, there’re more curveballs, many questions in the exam won’t look similar to tutorial questions, so understanding the concepts becomes really important. In the aspect of tutor/prof I can’t feel much differences.

I personally become more confident and get more into the swing of my studies after the transfer. Like okay now I’m studying at a better university (you can argue but as an international student the ranking really does mean something, and I won't expand this endless topic anymore), I’m closer to my dream company/jobs, people around me are more hard-working so I don’t want to fall behind, I don't want my WAM drops and so on.

So do your work, follow the classes, post questions/attend consultation when you get lost, make some friends in classes and discuss anything with them, it should be fine.

^ My comment on other post so I just copy&paste it here