Marvellous Melbourne
Why Choose Melbourne City?

Colourful, safe, clean and green, affluent but affordable…brimming with culture and sporting venues and restaurants and cafes…dotted with magnificent parks and gardens…crossed by great boulevards, home to world-class shopping…Melbourne is one of the best places to study.
Here’s why:
- Student life in Melbourne is wonderful. Each week, there are many free attractions. The beaches and parks and gardens are a pleasure all year round. The city has terrific art galleries, theatres and cinemas.
- Melbourne is multi-cultural and safe. Walk down almost any Melbourne street and you’ll hear a variety of accents. Melbourne has been officially recognised as a safe community by the World Health Organization.
- Melbourne is affordable. Not as expensive as Sydney, Melbourne offers all the advantages of a big city.
- Melbourne is one of Australia’s education centres. Currently, there are more than 43,000 international students studying here and in regional Victoria. * A qualification from UB @ AMI will be recognised worldwide.
- Melbourne is a business centre. The majority of public companies are in Melbourne and a significant number of organizations have their headquarters here. These include: BHP Billiton, National Australia Bank, Amcor, PaperlinX, Mayne Group Limited, and Orica.
- Melbourne has thousands of restaurants, cafes and eateries covering every type of nationality. You’ll always be able to find your food from home in Melbourne!
- Melbourne is Australia’s festival capital, hosting annual celebrations of the arts, sport, racing, food, wine, literature and yearly get-togethers of a variety of ethnic communities. You’ll have fun while you study here!
- Melbourne is Australia’s centre for manufacturing and research and development. If you decide to stay on in Melbourne after you graduate, this is a great place to find a job.
- Melbourne is Australia’s most cosmopolitan city. Melbourne has Australia’s second highest proportion of people (26.0%) who reported speaking a language other than English at home.
* Source:
http://www.study.vic.gov.au/aboutus/higher.asp