The University of Sydney

The instructors are amazing. They are highly experienced and approachable, the materials are very engaging. Although course structure is intensive and work load could be challenging, but it is well-organized and with strong support network. Learning at USYD has been a wonderful experience. I love their historic architecture and amazing views. Review your anatomy!

The campus is beautiful, teachers are amazing and very helpful, community of students is welcoming. Student to teacher ratio is good, a lot of hands on and in person learning.

I like how the facility is new, with modern equipment and technologies. I like how the university is close to the city and provides resources and events for students. I dislike how the parking situation is at the university. I like how the instructors are very knowledgeable and willing to help out students. I dislike how the class sizes are quite large and how there is minimal time to practice skills in tutorials. The program is fairly fast paced and is easy to fall behind on the lecture and tutorial material. Try to brush up on your anatomy before classes start if you can!

I like how the teachers take their time to explain topics. I dislike how our exam schedules come out very late. I like having hands on experience and learning new skills. It may be scary thinking about moving abroad and starting over again but once classes start it gets easier.

I love the professors. They are always will to stay and discuss any questions and get to know us a bit better. I dislike that the university is so big! Sometimes I feel like it is a city within the city! I like the professors and the tutorials we have. I dislike the weighting of exams and assignments.

Facilities are great and the educators are some of the best. I can see why the university is ranked so highly in the world rankings. I love the content we are learning since I’m passionate about physio. The only thing I dislike is that all the content is crammed up into 2 years with placement blocks so exam time gets extremely stressful, something I have never see before. In my first semester I had an exam each day for 5 days in a row! Definitely requires a lot of mental preparation before doing a vigorous program like this. Enjoy it and try and understand the course content rather than just trying to memorize it. Physio can require a lot of problem solving at time so it’s key to understand the body and it’s physiology/anatomy. Also this course has cardiorespiratory and neurological components which are just as much as the musculoskeletal parts so have a good understanding of those 2 subjects as well to be successful.

The program is amazing and staff and students are great.

Campus is very large and beautiful, but can be difficult to maneuver for new students and takes a while to walk from one side of campus to another. Facilities are top notch, but feedback from and interaction with professors and tutors is limited and not many opportunity for getting to know other people in program. Program cohort is very large. Material is very broad and overarching of all things related to my program.

Experience is great, campus is beautiful, courses are in a new building and are good. The communication between myself and the school was slow. The course material is interesting. The tutorials are great because you’re having hands-on learning. Instructors are good. Class sizes are up to 60 people in a class but there is a good student-to-instructor ratio.

New facilities, close to the city, lots going on! My university’s program is changing from a 2 year to a 3 year – I like the 2 year a lot, great professors, lots of material covered, feeling excited for practicals. Downside is a lack of communication around timelines/exams schedules/important information. Get medical documents in order – specifically vaccine history including dates/doses (batch number if possible). Check the university’s website and set a reminder to submit your timetable preferences (they vary a lot, there’s lots of possible options- could be at school everyday or only 2-3 days/week), make sure to get out there/have fun when you do have breaks!

I like the university…. I enjoy the program because there is a lot of hands on learning through tutorials and the material is interesting.

I like how organized the system they use to give us material to learn on our own and I like how there are several options in scheduling our weekly tutorials I dislike the campus that we are at, the cumberland campus does not compare to the main campus in camperdown. the facilities are kept a lot cleaner, the libraries are open later and there are many food options on the camperdown campus. Aside from the cafeteria on cumberland campus there are no other food options and the the cafeteria closes around 3:30pm

I chose the University of Sydney because of their amazing program. They are so world renowned and have an amazing group of professors who want you to succeed! I am loving the program! Although it’s a two-year program, it is going by so fast! I knew that it would require a lot of hard work and dedication, but it is such a rewarding feeling being part of an amazing faculty. The professors are awesome and offer lots of help.

The program does a great job of really opening the idea of different pathways in the area of physiotherapy.