Skip to content | Change text size

Exchange or study abroad home

Studying at Monash for: Requirements About Monash Contact Monash Abroad
 

Unit (course) restrictions

The following restrictions apply to exchange and study abroad students:

  • 4th year and honours units are generally not available.
  • Postgraduate units are generally available only to postgraduate students.
  • Units offered only offshore (Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong etc) are not available unless studying at Monash South Africa or Malaysia campuses.
  • Off-campus learning (OCL) or distance education (DE) units are not available.
Faculty Restrictions
Art and Design Students enrolled in more than 50% Art and Design units must also enrol in the non-credit occupational health and safety unit OHS1000 for which there is a fee.
Arts Language units are strictly sequential and students must fulfil exact prerequisites
Business & Economics Postgraduate units at the Clayton campus cannot be taken by exchange or study abroad students but units at the Caulfield campus may be approved on a case by case basis.

Students applying for MBA units must meet the following minimum requirements:

  • English test score of IELTS 7.0 with no band under 6.0 (or the TOEFL equivalent)
  • Two years relevant work experience
  • Applications must include a complete resume showing both study and employment undertaken 
Education

Units with practical teaching components may be available for students enrolled in a teaching program at their home university.

  • The units will be limited to 1st, 2nd or 3rd year units only
  • Units will be subject to the availability of teaching placements
  • Students who are offered placements will be required to undertake a police record check which costs $75 (in 2008)
Engineering None
Information Technology None
Law faculty
  • LAW4183 Jessup Moot not available
  • LAW5216 Trial Practice and LAW4160 Negotiation and Mediation have quotas and preference is given to Monash full course students
  • LAW5216 Professional Practice is available but has a heavy workload beyond semester, including after hours rosters at legal aid clinic
  • The following units have quotas and are not available to exchange students as preference is given to full degree students
    LAW5216
    LAW5149
    LAW4183
    LAW5110
    LAW4162
    LAW5207
    LAW4173
    LAW4174
    LAW4214
    LAW4160
    LAW5127
    LAW5151
    LAW1003
    LAW2003
    LAW3003
    LAW4003
Medicine
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery units not available

Psychology units 

  • Psychology units only available to students with substantial previous study in psychology and the School of Psychology have strict requirements for progression at undergraduate level.
  • In order to assess applications from exchange and study abroad students they require official unit /subject descriptions for all previously studied psychology units including the number of hours of classes per week, the assessment requirements of the units, the textbooks used, and an outline of the content.
  • Approval for 1st year units is more straightforward but students applying for 2nd or 3rd year units must have a working knowledge of a statistics program like SPSS and have previously written scientific lab reports. 
Pharmacy None
Science None