Admission Experience at Monash

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Reason for choosing my college

I have only applied to one university which I got admitted and moved forward to apply for visa and got the visa approval easily by this university. University Canada West for Masters in Business Administration, the criteria is B+ grade in bachelors and GMAT (optional), IELTS are the admission criteria. 6 or 6.5 bands with no less than 6 gets easily admission. My overall experience is great.

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Reason for Rejection

I was rejected in the following universities as I was not able to meet their admission criteria. The admission process was super easy you just have to complete the application and pay a fee of 100$ refundable fee if you join the university.

I only gave IELTS as that is the only requirements for MS in Canadian universities. The documents which were necessary were completion letter(or temporary graduation letter from my bachelor's university), scanned copies of all 8 semesters of my bachelor's degree, my bachelor's degree(not required if you have a provisional degree), 3 LORs, 1 resume, and 1 SOP. If someone is applying for thesis based, then they would need to show some research work as well.

- I chose Monash University because the course I undertook is among the top 10 in the world in QS Rankings, and it continues to stay at the top list for years. - Admission Process involves submission of Statement of Purpose along with academic records, and score of TOEFL. - There was no set criteria or minimum score mentioned. IELTS and TOEFL scores were accepted. - It went very smooth for me especially for all UK universities.

The program is a little difficult so expect to put around 3 hours per day at least for assignments, and about 2-3 hours for self-study. It was a very practical program and almost all assignments would be implementation of what we have learned. The positive aspects were that you would get a very good practical entry-level understand of a ton of subjects like Machine Learning, Android App Development, parallel programming etc. which is very necessary and helps you decide your interest. The negative aspect was the fact that everything was taught from scratch which is not good for a master's course Number of classes depends on how many subjects you take per term. The maximum I took were 3 and there was at least 1 class each per week (one subject had 2 classes per week), and the class would be around 1 hour 50 minutes long. Online subjects have no classes so you have to study on your own. My class had around 90% Indians and the average number of students per class would be 40.

Faculty-to-student ratio in the course is 1:50, 1:35, 1:20, 1:15. Faculty can teach in-person in the class and the quality of education is great because faculty gives extra attention to each and every student and clears all the doubts. Course is structure with a practical and basic approach of the job market and I cannot say further this now. Yes, faculties are great give referrals of the alumni to the students to get a part time and full time jobs. Ange Quapp(University access program), Ashu tiwari(Business Economics) they are the most admirable faculty.

My college has 4 locations. They are in Waterloo (where I go), Brantford, Milton, and Kitchener. My campus has a library, a wellness centre, around 4-5 study areas (from large halls to medium sized rooms), 2 fields, and a gym which has swimming pools, basketball and volleyball courts, and a badminton court. Homecoming football game is the most popular event at my university, but there are multiple other events that keep happening over the time. They are all shared on different instagram accounts managed by the university and also through a newsletter There are too many events which happen here and there, but the one which I like the most are the intramural sports which the university has. Intramural sports consists off sports competitions like football, volleyball, badminton, basketball, table tennis, frizbee etc. I participated in 7 man football event and badminton doubles. These intramural sport events start at the start of every term so it goes on throughout the year.

Mostly Indian students work outside the campus. It is quite difficult to get part-time employment unless you have a good network, or you know someone who is a good friend and who works, then it becomes kind of easy to get a part-time job. Most part-time jobs include working in fast food, or grocery stores but as said before, it is very difficult to get one unless you are very good friends with someone who works there. Mostly people search and apply through job boards like indeed, and the resume should include a short summary of you and the hours of week you are available to work. Interviews are very straightforward and you should be as communicative as you can to get a job

TAs are usually 4-5 including undergraduate TAs. RA positions depend on if a professor is doing a research within the university itself because some professors prefer to do it with other universities. From my knowledge, there are around 7 graduate paid RAs, with myself being an unpaid RA (unpaid RAs are around 3-4). There are no DAs whom I know about. Other than these, there are instructional assistants or IAs and markers. I knew 3 people who worked in these positions. TAs usually received somewhere between $35-$40 per hour with their hours being limited to 130 hours per term. IAs receive the same pay but their hours are very less (usually 25-30 per term). Other on-campus jobs are library assistants, international student outreach student positions, campus tech support, gym front-desk, cafeterias and restaurants, and the student union. Most of these receive minimum wage, with the exception of library assistant who receive around $18 per hour and receive about 6-12 hours per week.

Out of the 20 people who graduated in the last intake, all of them ended up getting a job within 6 months after they completed their course. The average salary range can be $70000 per year in the IT field Students usually network around, but apply for jobs through linkedin. The biggest help in getting a job are internships as they demonstrate Canadian experience which is very essential for some employers as a lot of Indians have a history of faking their previous work experience. Other than linkedin, there's indeed, monster, dice and wellfound for finding jobs, but the best way would be to network with people especially in events like hackathons A batchmate of mine got a job in Nasdaq but his previous experience as an intern helped out in getting an interview. But most of my batchmates converted their intern jobs to full-time jobs. Most of the past graduates work in banks like TD, CIBC, Scotiabank etc. The university is very helpful when it comes to helping students to find inter

"I found accommodation through facebook marketplace. My rent was $700 which included laundry and utilities (electricity and water). I did not really face any challenges while finding accommodation, but when securing it, I had to make a decision within 2 days after viewing because of it's high demand. For future students, I would recommend to get a private room if possible because then you can focus a lot on your studies. There's Facebook marketplace, Kijiji and real estate agencies which rent out and if you find real estate agency which specialises in student housing (WCRI in my city, Waterloo), then you can find pretty cheap rooms near university campuses. My accommodation is around 4 KM away from the campus. Most of the Indian students live in the city of Kitchener, but some groups did live near the university but they had to share their rooms with at least 3-4 other people to afford those places."