The Melbourne Experience
The University of Melbourne offers its students excellent and stimulating academic programs for undergraduates and postgraduates. These are programs which provide an international as well as an Australian perspective, and which are imbued with the ethos and experience of research. The Melbourne Experience is a campus-based education in a learning environment characterised by both a rich architectural heritage and new technologies.
The University's ideal of the Melbourne Experience is:
- An educationally focussed community, where staff and students work together to strengthen teaching, learning and the pursuit of knowledge;
- An articulate and open community, where freedom of expression is protected, and new and difficult questions are explored;
- An international community, for which the campus experience is made richer by being located in the heart of a multicultural city;
- A lively community, where students are invited to participate in student clubs, debates, sport and community service;
- A fair community, where diversity is valued and the integrity of the individual is respected;
- A principled community, where explicit codes of academic honesty, of ethics and of good conduct guide behaviour and students and staff accept their obligations to others;
- A caring community, where the well-being of each student and staff member is supported according to their individual needs and where service and the support of others is encouraged; and
- A celebratory community, where the University's history and achievements are known and honoured and its living traditions widely shared.
Through their participation in this environment, the University expects its graduates to be educated, well-informed citizens able to contribute to their communities wherever they choose to live and work. It expects them to have an international awareness based on understanding of social, cultural and linguistic diversity, and on respect for the physical environment and individual human rights and dignity.