Bachelor of Commerce

The Honourable John Brumby, then Treasurer, now Premier of Victoria

"When you look to employ a graduate you want somebody who is not too narrow. You want people who’ve had a good education. You want capable people. But you want some breadth [and] depth. And what I like about the Melbourne Model, it’ll give us ... [that]. It will also open up much wider opportunities for students to participate directly with industry … And that’s why I think it’s such an important step in the right direction."

Stephen Carpenter, Partner KPMG

“What we are trying to do here is to put together a group of people who are interesting and diverse in their backgrounds, their approaches, their views and their experiences and what we find is that people who get through and become successful graduates here have a diversity of experience in any case. So for the University of Melbourne to now be saying that this is something that they’re making integral to their undergraduate degrees is something that’s very refreshing to us and something that’s very encouraging to us. Because the graduates that we look for will have those skill sets.”

Ahmed Fahour, Executive Director and CEO Australia, National Australia Bank

"What we’re looking for in a new graduate is not somebody who is very narrow in their thinking or in their attitude or their perspective. We’re looking for diversity of people, a diversity of knowledge and a diversity of thinking. I think this new model will really set the students up to enable them to take on the world and certainly do well in our organisation."

Paul Bassat, Managing Director, seek.com

"My sense and my understanding of the Melbourne Model is that it is going to deliver much more rounded graduates who will have a much broader set of experience. It won’t just be depth of experience and depth of skills … I think it’s really, really exciting both for employers and … for the graduates themselves."

Andrew Hagger, Private Client Services Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers

"I think it is terrific that the Melbourne Model is being designed around being international, contemporary and fresh, and really looking at what employers like us need out of the graduate group, and that is valuable to us. I think it’s to the credit of the University."

Dr Jane Fischer, CEO, Calvary Healthcare

"I think the fact that people are doing an undergraduate degree before they go into the postgraduate stream will actually mean there’s a certain level of maturity – that they’ve actually worked out which stream is right for them."

Professor Robin Batterham, Chief Technologist, Rio Tinto

"Gone are the days when you could expect somebody to go to university for four years, perhaps four years plus one or two and come out as a specialist in a particular area. The amount of information in any particular area is changing so rapidly that we’ve got to look at a new model."