International Students- the economy booster for Melbourne

International Students: forte to Melbourne in bringing business to boost-up the economy and triumph of new ideas

Melbourne Universities bounces copious of reasons for international students to choose Melbourne as their final destination for International Education.

First and foremost, Melbourne being one of the most livable cities in the world and secondly the multicultural environment, which helps international students to feel home in a foreign country as well.

International Students are very well accepted in Melbourne, as per Mohammed Toaha (coordinator of client services team, International College of Arts Social Science and Commerce at Latrobe University) there are very isolated cases of discrimination and racism, which are being handled in an appropriate manner but in whole international students are absolutely welcomed in Melbourne.

International Students are indeed an asset to Melbourne as they bring in major portion of business, ideas, new thoughts, novel qualifications and innovation which are very helpful for the economy.

In return the government offers them with certain facilities and universities do their best to get them the preeminent which shows the mutuality between them.

Explicitly about choosing Latrobe University is because of the variety of courses they offer which suits International students and there are numerous facilities and services which are peculiarly available for International students which distinguishes Latrobe University from others in Melbourne.

Such facilities include decent accommodation, gym, swimming pool in the UNI campus and services like International student compliance team, which looks after the visa requirements and also International student services team, which takes care of the welfare of students and also the College clients’ services team, which protect the rights of international students rather than domestic students.

As per the data, the number of international students in Latrobe University of Melbourne shows, the numbers are been increasing every year, in 2012 it was 4,322 and it went up to 4,399 and in 2014 it was 4,757, this data specifies towards the growth in international student numbers for just one university of Melbourne and if you look at 2016 its grown even further.

Increase in numbers of international students is the rich depiction of students that they are taking Melbourne as their final destination for higher education.

The wide range of agents by Universities of Melbourne in all across the world, who actually become an essential way for bringing in the students and it thoroughly depends on them that how they portray universities to the interested students.

These agents visit the universities every year to look at the facilities and gaze the standard of teaching in the campuses which helps them to let the students understand the benefits of studying internationally and sharply helps them to decide why they should choose Melbourne.

By Shweta Suri 2nd Semester, International Student at Latrobe.