The Melbourne Model
What is the Melbourne Model?
The University of Melbourne has introduced landmark educational reforms known collectively as the Melbourne Model. These reforms are designed to create an outstanding and distinctive Melbourne Experience for all students. In moving to the new model, the University is responding to the challenges of today's changing environment as well as aligning itself with the best of European and Asian practice and North American traditions.
Six New Generation undergraduate degrees
The Melbourne Model is based on six broad undergraduate programs followed by a professional graduate degree, research higher degree or entry directly into employment. The emphasis on academic breadth as well as disciplinary depth in the new degrees ensures that as a graduate you will have the capacity to negotiate your way successfully in a world where knowledge boundaries are shifting and reforming to create new frontiers and challenges almost daily.
- Undergraduate courses offered under the Melbourne Model
- Graduate courses offered under the Melbourne Model
What are breadth studies?
Melbourne's New Generation degrees are designed to give all students depth and breadth of learning.
Depth is reflected in the expertise you gain by studying a core program in a major discipline. Breadth is a result of choosing additional subjects from outside your major area of study, to develop other kinds of expertise.
Breadth studies are a feature of Melbourne's New Generation undergraduate degrees, making up at least 25 percent of your program.
Growing Esteem strategy
The Melbourne Model is the name used to describe the learning and teaching component of the University's broader strategic vision for its future development (known as the Growing Esteem Strategy).
In February 2006, the University established the Curriculum Commission to review its academic programs and recommend changes in learning and teaching.
The Commission's report was endorsed by Academic Board in October that year and offers a detailed summary of the key principles behind the University's New Generation courses and the pathways to graduate programs.