Can anyone tell me how to select a University in Aus or NZ to study MA or MS or MBA in Communication?

G'day,

First of all: congratulations on getting 8.0 on IELTS.

Now... you are not clear on what communication that you want to study in... is it Mass Communication (like media studies or journalism) which is part of Arts studies, or Communication Engineering which is part of Engineering studies? Obviously arts is cheaper than engineering.

BTW... MBA is Master of Business Administration, so it does not have any relations to any of the fields that I mentioned above.

As you mentioned that you have BBA, so I am assuming that you are interested in the communication as an Arts degree, as you will never qualify for Masters in Engineering (no Engineering degree background).

To be eligible for a Masters course in Australia, you will need to have the degree that deemed as equivalent to Australian Bachelor Degree. You will need to fill in the application form and send them together with the certified copy of all of your academic transcripts. If they cannot accept you for the Masters course, they may offer you a place in their Bachelor degree course with credit transfer, so you do not have to study from year 1 again.

There are only 42 (soon to be 43) universities in Australia, all of them are fully accredited and they are tightly controlled, therefore the quality and recognition of their graduates are equal from wherever university you are studying from. The most important thing is you have to READ the course information carefully, since some courses may have the same name but different content. Communications course is offered by most universities in Australia.

I suggest you to go to the Dept. of Education, Science and Training website (http://cricos.dest.gov.au)/ or IDP Education Australia (www.idp.edu.au) online database. It will give the list of institutions that are able to offer courses to international students who wants to continue their study in Australia. The info abt fees and requirements are available from the universities' websites. Please make sure that the information you are accessing are the one for International Students.

Once you've found the uni, fill in the application form for international students and send it together with certified copy of your academic transcripts. At this moment, the application processing will take abt 4weeks.

Hope this helps. Good luck on your study and welcome to Australia :)

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