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!

Good location and access to transit! Wish there was more o-week events particular to each program. Campus and facilities are good, but the curriculum needs improvement in terms of scheduling, communications, and general organization and efficiency. Be brave and embrace the opportunity to move to Australia!

The University of Sydney is a great place to learn. My experience as a first-year student in the Doctor of Dental Medicine course has been very positive. Teachers are very friendly and seem to love what they do. It makes the learning experience all the better.

The program allows us to get lots of clinical exposure starting early on and the blocks are structured in a week to week structure that is consistent. There are program specific clubs to get involved in and lots of events to network and meet new people in upper years as well as working professionals. The program is structured so that there are no barrier exams and we get to be in a clinical setting starting from year 1. Beautiful campus. Lots of clubs and events to get involved in. Not a lot of food options and everything on campus is pricey.

The university of Sydney is a diverse community with lots of clubs and events happening throughout the year. The program has high quality education provided with hands on learning since the beginning. However there is some disorganization with upper management which can lead to confusing situations for students. The university of Sydney is a great place to learn and there was not much of a culture shock when getting here. The weather is great and the food is amazing. Definitely found it worth it.

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!

The school is well-equipped, but the campus is very large, and the cohort is big. Most instructors are excellent, passionate and knowledgeable about their subjects. Problems arise in trying to organize the timetable for the entire cohort and satisfy every student.

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.

USyd is REALLY hands-on and gives you so much clinic time! The program doesn’t just dive into theory and makes sure you have lots of time to practice. The program can be a bit disorganized and will be a bit messy between semesters. The instructors are very passionate and love what they do. Clinics are so helpful and you get lots of feedback on your work. The overall coordination is messy and really sporadic. Come in with a super open mindset and do your best to connect with your peers! These programs are daunting but especially for dentistry, working together is a massive life saver!

The University of Sydney has been amazing. I love the teaching, the small clinical school sizes, the independent learning, the campus, the city and the opportunities.

The location is absolutely amazing where it’s so close to transit and the city. Also the culture around the student population is very inclusive. The professors are really passionate and do an amazing job of teaching. The only thing I dislike is you don’t get your placement dates out far enough to plan out your trips back home.

The Sydney medical program is modern. Education structure enables you to work at your own pace and take care of yourself with extracurricular activities. Exposure to patients and in first year gives you more time to get used to actually interacting with patients, and you learn more about how medical care in a hospital works. USyd campus is most beautiful campus. Sydney weather is amazing. Dislike: Expensive.

Love the libraries. The clinical experience is amazing, the administration and organization of the curriculum is terrible.

Kike: beautiful campus, good services on campus. dislike: facilities are a little old and outdated, was hoping for more/better university organized activities. Great focus on practical skills and lots of opportunities to build upon it, great community of students from both Canada and Australia. dislike: faculty administrators are disorganized (ie. timetable errors, last minute changes etc.).

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.

[I like] studying at one of Australia’s top universities, and the opportunities available through the program (int’l learning opportunities). Nothing to complain about. I expect it to be similar quality as what would be expected at a Canadian law school.

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.

Big campus, great city, awesome people, small class sizes, professors are all well-known clinicians, and lots of activities and clubs, but not much support for international students.

Beautiful campus, distinguished profs, and great reputation. Expensive to attend (obviously) and program size too large. Talk to a new fellow student (a stranger) everyday for a while! Nothing great can happen to you if you don’t put yourself out there. If in law school at USyd, [join the] SULS international committee

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.

The teaching staff is amazing at USYD! However the administration could be a bit more organized. I really enjoy working with the professors and you get the opportunity to learn and engage in various learning experiences that are applicable to your future career! The organization and clarity for some classes have been unclear.

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 love my university. I always wanted to be doctor and this program is perfect for me.

I have liked some courses where I have hands on work with animals at farms and I also visit the zoo, however some first year courses feel somewhat repetitive from high school. Campus is great and program is great, first year is quite simple and there is some review which feels repetitive.

Love the campus and quality of education and dislike the work demands. Like the supervisors and dislike the difficulty and expectations.

So far, the program is incredible. I’ve always had a passion for law and understanding the world around me, and the University of Sydney Law School provides ample opportunity for students to gain vast amounts of knowledge, starting from day one. At the start of the program, the university languidly introduces students to the topics they will be studying in an effort to allow students to figure out how they study best and how they should set up their schedules. But it seems that the intensity of the program is turned up a notch bit by bit every day. While I do have to keep up with all my readings every day, the seminar manager (a tutor who provides extra help and commentary outside of lectures) makes sure that everyone is on track to being the best that they can be.

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

University of Sydney is an amazing University with everything a student can ask for. The only issue that I have is that it can be hard to find spaces to study since there is a huge student population. I am definitely enjoying the program at USYD. This is because there are amazing lectures both at the main campus and the teaching hospitals. The only issue is that the program is being changed to an online based one with MD2020 so not everyone is on board with online teaching.

Great weather in Sydney, well renowned institution, and great emphasis on research projects…. The early clinical exposure is really good and allows us to apply our theoretical learning into real clinical and practical applications.

I like USYD. It is a great program with a long history of success. I am enjoying it. I feel like I’m learning a lot and feel that the clinical introduction from an early date has been beneficial to our learning.  Take advantage of all the events that happen to make friends and get the most out of the program.

I do like my university. It is a world-class university in a wonderful city. I love how supportive the students are to each other. The Usyd Med program has such a family-like culture where everyone wants you to do well.

Yes. There is great clinical experience and I have made very close friends since moving. Unlike undergrad I am actually taking steps that are directly applying to the job that I would like to do when I graduate.

Right into the hospital ASAP. I get a lot of clinical experience. Additionally, there are many different learning activities so I rarely get tired of any. For example, the pathology labs, the team-based learning classes, clinical days, anatomy labs, lectures, and seminars.

The campus is beautiful and very nicely located in Sydney, but we aren’t actually there much at all after 1st semester. The program curriculum is great and very hands-on from very early on, but is fairly disorganized at times, particularly in the Medicine-heavy first semester. Sometimes it feels like we are not kept in the loop as well as we could be, but it is also a graduate program and therefore it is somewhat expected that we should have the skills necessary to dig around online and find the appropriate documents that tell us such things as when our exams are or what is actually on them. The instruction is also by and large very good, with profs that seem to really want us to succeed. Overall I am very satisfied with my choice to come here, and would highly recommend other Canadian students do the same.

Pros: large university with a very active campus so there is always something going on within the med program and beyond. World class lecturers teaching challenging material is very cool and rewarding. The anatomy labs and cadavers are an amazing tool to study anatomy and the staff is incredible. Cons: Organization of the lecture material sometimes seems thrown together without much thought so flow throughout a block of study can be a bit scattered.

I like how hands on and practical it is from the first weeks of the program and the variety of learning environments offered through the program. The campus is quite large and busy, and there aren’t any devoted spaces for medical students to study or congregate on the main campus outside of lectures. There is a graduate library, but it is small and fills with people in other programs near the ends of their semesters.

The Sydney medical program can be a bit disorganized, but it is very hands on and you are expected to learn things quite fast. Definitely a challenging course but worthwhile.

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

The University of Sydney is a well-renowened university and the campus is very nice and walkable. The students are well-supported by staff. We have a close relationship with some of the staff, especially at our clinical schools. Despite being away from home, I always feel like someone is looking out for me.

The University is huge, well established and with some very supportive and experienced faculty. Some aspects of the program are disorganised. Time tables change often depending on the block of study and this ends up keeping us on our toes regarding how to study each block. This is especially true when lectures get switched around in an order where more complex topics end up being covered before the intro lectures. The clinical days are extremely useful learning opportunities. One has the opportunity to learn a great deal from the doctors at the clinical school especially if one is able to spend some extra-curricular time there.

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.

I love the diverse array of students in my classes and the amazing profs who come from all different backgrounds as well. The professors often draw from Canadian, American and New Zealand case law which makes the lectures relevant and very interesting. Also, the feedback opportunities are very helpful for first-year students. The curriculum is tough and demanding; however, the law school gives you ample tools in order to succeed. The professors are really approachable as well.