Sydney and Melbourne, the biggest Australian cities, offer the best choice of state and private educational establishments. For example, Sydney and its suburbs have six universities altogether. What about specialties? The wide programs (nearly 75) in the field of design are offered by UNSW.

The oldest Australian university – the university of Sydney – was founded in 1851. The most prestige higher institutes are also: University of New South Wales, UNSW; University of Melbourne; University of Queensland and many others.

Learning to get the degree of a bachelor occupies three (ordinary degree) or four (honored degree) years. Some fields of education like medicine or engineering are supposed to last for four or even six years.

 Lately the popularity of “double degrees” has widened: for example, business and law, information technologies and management. These programs take more time to learn: five or six years. A Master’s degree can be got in one – two years. The highest academic qualification is awarded after a deep study of theoretical course and implementation of research work. All this occupies three years.

Many Australian universities (especially “new”, who lately got their status) are different from “usual” ones. Some of them have a right to appropriate only a bachelor degree and dispose a few number of faculties, which prepare specialists in claimed fields like business, law, engineering.

The feature of Australian high education system is well-developed sector of distance programs: 10 from each 100 students educate at home.

Getting education in such countries like Australia becomes more popular every day. The first problem which people face to is a choice of a university. There is a huge number of higher educational establishments there, which don’t have any ratings, but all of their booklets seem to be very nice. So the information is got from them. Many people, attracted by these pictures and low prices, choose the first college they saw. Unfortunately, this way is not good and is full of mistakes, it’ll do no good but harm to you. The case is not in a forbid to change your university before you study at least one year there, but in wasting your money in vane. Some people have an opinion that prestige of the college is not important, the main goal is the right faculty and course.

If your goal is only to get a foreign diploma, you can do it that way. But if you want not only to study, but to purchase friends and acquaintances all over the world, you’d better choose a university, which enjoys a wide popularity.

The Australians are very care-taking people, they attach large significance to the questions of education and employment of their children. So in a prestige university your classmates will be the “plums” of the society. It will be not only cool, but very useful for you to get business acquaintances, which you’ll need at the third course in your university. Solid recommendations will help you to find the job, according to your qualification. In order that your candidature will be reviewed, the recommendations are needed: without having them you won’t have any success in Australia. But if you work carelessly, you’ll be fired, and even the intercession a prime minister won’t help.

To sum up, the prestige college is a way to become a part of Australian higher class people. When the Australians meet you, they profess interest in the place, where you studied (study) and where you live. The inhabitants of this continent attach large significance to the prestige. And here things like the title of a shop, where you buy your clothes, a sports club you visit play a large part here. The Australian society can be imagined like a puff pie, baked by a first-class housewife: the puffs don’t crumble and don’t mix. The mortgage of your success depends on a puff, which you get in.