Australian Catholic University Melbourne Campus 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065

"I must say its the worst uni. There is no option of 0 star or minus star otherwise that would be my choice for review or rate ACU . The don’t respect person’s time. I waited for almost 6 month for them to offer me a offer letter and after taking fees they ask further document to issue a coe. This is fare i don’t know because they should have ask for this before even giving me offer letter. And even after giving GTE there staff get confuse even after everything is cleary written there and they ask for same question again and again. And after 6 moth they took another month and my application is still is in process. I literally made a mistake my paying fees here because after that i got bond here and i cant go anywhere because my already paid here."

"I have attended a few universities in my time both in Aus and abroad and ACU is by far THE WORST institution I have had the displeasure to attend. Do not trust this den of vipers, they pretend to be a catholic and yet act like Judas, trying to exploit students and steal money. They should be investigated for exploitation and using students for free labour. Their tactics are wicked and all they care about is financial gain. Avoid ACU at all costs!"

"ACU if anything has held me back from achieving my future goals. When I tried to get in contact for help for my exam I got shunned out and sent in the other direction. This institute is nothing but a joke at best and all the teachers care about in this university is their own back pockets instead of the students education and future. I would highly recommend looking somewhere for studies."

"- Some Lecturer/Tutors are completely useless and there's even some that would torture their students either as a group or individually - Some tutorial/lecture rooms are poorly presented. For example, some lecture table- I can't even fit my laptop in it or there are walls in the middle of a tutorial room so the tutor can't see half of the students - Tutorial room: It's always overcrowded with students fighting over chairs and tables- perhaps you are too stingy to not hire more tutors/tutorial times - LEO: Some staff contribution has been poorly presented- staff are always changing parts of the assignment just days and even hours before the due date that doesn't align with the unit outline - Rude Staff via email: There are some very rude staff who refuses to respond to certain emails - Racism issue: I find that ACU is quite racist when it comes to hiring people with a different skin. For example, employers would avoid hiring people with appropriate qualifications/experience who have a different skin/look - Need Better Singage: ACU needs to provide a better map and signage of different locations around ACU as some of the buildings were difficult to find. For example, the Knox Building was located outside of ACU but our timetable indicated that this building was located inside of the main section of our campus. Furthermore, since The Knox Building is far from the main building, they did not even consider adjusting our timetables to provide us time to get there as students are often late, waiting for 2 traffic lights. - STOP MAKING LECTURES AND TUTORIALS COMPULSORY- I had a friend who was a wheelchair- it was impossible to have perfect atendence from her classes are from msac to acu and via versa. The staff would be rude and mean to her about it- they threatened to fail her based on her physical health at that time - LANTITE: ACU threatened to remove students from the course from failing a useless test once or more. They even made people write multiple letters to ACU to justify why they deserve to stay in the course- it takes them over 3 months to look at a letter. Overall, ACU is a money scheme university that enjoys taking advantage of students as well as finding ways to stop students from graduating from a course. (I'm not going to detail about all of this) - COVID: Online Classes- It's dissapointing how slow ACU is with their transition as well as their ability to adjust the unit to suit the mode. They also emphasised that it cost more to run an online class when we are all using our own internet, laptop to join our classes - Placement: ACU always takes a long time to find us placements throughout the year- Most of the students seems to always start later than the actual date stated on the unit outline - Library: Needs to be expanded- always crowded around 11am-2pm - Library: There's a rude library staff member who is very rude to all of the students- For example, she pulls students out of a chair because it was placed in a wrong position- Students should be feel threatened and harassed by anyone - Cafe Price: Completely overpriced and the food is digusting- the only reason why it is popular is because it the closest shop on campus - Parking Space: No way near enough for students- Why should students need to come before 7:30am just for a parking space- We should not be waiting in line for hours for a parking space- this has been addressed but nothing has been done - Parking Price- Very expensive- This has been addressed but nothing has been done - Daniel Mannix Lifts- Very slow - needs to be fixed asap - All Lifts- they are often broken and students often have to cramp themselves to get on an lift to simply get to class"

"Generally ACU has good intentions, however the majority of the time it felt like I was working against the staff to graduate rather than working with them. This was especially true with business administration. The exercise science faculty was slightly better but it really was a difficult experience with ACU. Please look at different options, Deakin has a much better double degree."