**Cherri~BomB** said:
770 is not alot... there were around that many ppl applyin for bacc.
we had a representative from unsw come to our school n she said that there were a total of 1500~ ppl applyin for all the co-ops at unsw (including multiple scholarships) and a total of around 120 scholarships were given.
770 is the total number of interviews given that year i believe, they don't say how many people actually applied, if my post was confusing...well...sorry...=P
leoyh said:
yeah so in each individual department in business, they'd take about roughly 20 i assume, thus confirming what i said before - in accounting there were 1000 applicants last year (1000 probably put accounting as first choice) and 17 got accepted.
I still think 1000 sounds like too many, also sounds too 'look 1k is a nice big number', but meh....you can ask some accounting co-op, they'd probably know better.
They do not take 20 in each school. Here's a list of scholarships for co-op 07
Accounting 12
Actuarial 16
Finance 6
Marketing 5
BIT 19
ISM 4
Numbers change from year to year as it depends on sponsors, but additional sponsors may sign up during the year.
I have the engineering & science numbers too, but since this is the commerce forums...i'll only put it up if people want to know.
UTS co-op
Duration: 3 years
Money: 13k/year (last time i checked), you get paid more in later years than the earlier years but the average is 13k/year
Content: Accounting - good luck anyone who does it, accounting is the boring-est subject as UNSW and i don't think it will be any different at UTS
Bachelor of Information Technology (BIT) - this course supposedly doesn't have as much maths as the unsw variant and tend to focus more on business side of things
Industrial Training: 2 periods of 6 months, 2nd semester of 1st year and 1st semester of 3rd year (could be 2nd year....), this is for BIT but i think it applies for accounting too
UNSW co-op
Duration: 4years, including honours (this means you get paid an extra year, spend an extra year bludging in uni, get to do a thesis)
Money: 15k/year, paid fortnightly
Content: Accounting - main point i have to say here is that you can double major with the commerce co-ops and most people taking the accounting don't actually want to do accounting and co-major in finance, as to my view of accounting in general....see above...=P
Business Information Technology (BIT) - this course has a solid first year program, doing ACCT, INFS, COMP and MATH (basically half science, half commerce). After that you do mainly information systems with a few electives so you can go either technical side or business side.
Industrial Training: Varies within the degrees, usually 3 periods of 6months - 1st semester 2nd year, 2nd semester 3rd year, 1st semester 4th year
I think the main decision is UTS has a shorter degree meaning you'd come out faster, work an extra year before the UNSW people start working. But work is not as fun as uni, and because UNSW gets an additional period of industrial training experience and get paid during the 'extra' year + get honours, I think UNSW is better in that regard. Did i mention you get paid more?...=P
