OK, just quickly back to the original questions at the start before the rest of you can sontinue your shit talk.
I am one of the Student Ambassadors at the College of Business and Economics at ANU, and our main role is to talk to potential students about ANU and the CBE.
S.T.P said:
how does the business and economics faculty rank compared to unsw & usyd???
Economics at ANU is one of the best, if not the best economics course in the country, and has a very high reputation, especially overseas. Just a warning though that ANU's Economics sets a very high standard, and if you are doing an Economics degree at ANU that you do a maths bridging course unless you did well in 2 unit maths.
Compared to USyd and UNSW, Economics at ANU is very different. ANU Economics is about economics, and you will do economics. This is very different from UNSW and USyd, whose Economics degree essentially is the same as doing their Commerce degree and taking a major in Economics. Because of this approach, they don't have as great a focus on economics and their economics degree, when compared to ANU, looks quite amateurish (for a start, I do not know of another economics program in Australia apart from ANU that makes third year economics compulsory for its economics students).
For business subjects, ANU is still very good, however the School of Economics is the most highly regarded school within the CBE.
Something to consider: a new degree from 2009, Bachelor of Business Administration
Basically, ANU is
very strong and
highly regarded in economics, science (in general), politics and international relations.
ganj3 said:
Im very interested at studying Actuarial Studies and willing to go to ANU but I want to know do a lot of people apply to ANU for Actuarial Studies? How many places does ANU offer for Actuarial Studies??
From what I have heard from CBE from being a SA there, the actuarial cutoff went up this year. It is becoming more popular and harder to get in.
If you miss out on actuarial, another option is to get in through a BFinance or BCommerce and apply to transfer to actuarial after your first semester or first year. If you apply yourself well, keep focus and don't get lost in the system of having the 'Ps make degrees' mentality stuck in your head, it shouldn't be very hard to finish your first year in commerce with a HD average (and before people talk shit about that, all it needs is a bit of effort and determination and a bit of self-control - I talk from my own experience).
BackCountrySnow said:
Is the published UAI cutoff of 75.00 for B economics the main round cutoff?
And what is this about the base cutoff getting raised to 85.00?
I have heard nothing from CBE regarding this, although I have heard that ANU took too many students in at the beginning of the year, and as a result, mid-year's cutoffs may not be the same as the start. There was a rumour about this going around at the end of last year that Commerce and others were going up to 85, but that didn't eventuate for Sem1 this year.