My course is Data Science, and La Trobe has one of the best IT infrastructures which includes AWS cloud and NVIDIA GPU for Deep Learning and data analysis. Other aspect is obviously the campus spread across acres including different labs and institutes.
Course Curriculum
1) The course curriculum are very much accurate to the what the industry demands. 2) being from IT department They not only teach you the concepts but also provide you hands on precise use cases according to the real world scenarios. 3) There are also industrial experts lectures held to get exposure on when and where to use certain software packages. Although Covid hit, but it didn’t affect much on my studies because the projects assigned were so rich in concepts that you had to be familiar with everything thought.
Exams
My Scores: IETLS 7/9, GPA: 6.2/10, Minimum requirements: IELTS 6/9, GPA: 6/10 (55%)
Placement
1) There are no placements offered from the career hubs in university. This is generally for all universities offering MS. 2) The researches done are top notch and funded by government. Recently LTU did a research on Bio genetics which were linked to data science. 3) LTU stands 1st in graduates employability.
Internship
No
Fees
AUD4500/ Semester (After deducting the scholarship amount)
Scholarship
Yes, LTU India scholarship of 20% of my total semester fees based off on my internships and courses
Faculty
1) Faculties are supportive and always helpful to any doubts I had. They even replied me on holidays for any doubts I had, took one on one session for clearing hurdles and difficulties for a particular subject. 2) They even shared documents which carried content that was precisely from industrial standards. 3) One such professor was Peng Cheng who taught me Machine Learning. He also covered topics on carrying out ML pipelines on Azure and shared knowledge on the same.
Campus Life
I did my first two semesters online.
Hostel
NA
