Zhang: I am telling you Accounting is the fastest way of getting Australian citizenship.
Wang: Really? But I am not interested in Accounting.
Zhang: Oh who gives a shit! I just got my PR today, here, let me show you.
Wang, Li and Liu: Show us!
Coming from UNSW, College of Fine Arts, (not a common major Chinese students usually pursue), I was surprised to find out that Chinese compose not 30%, not 50% (which at this point is still understandable) but about 80% of all business students at USYD. In fact, 5 or 6 years ago, the number of Chinese business students in Sydney suddently boosted and has been growing steadily ever since. Why?
In 2001, University of New South Wales decided to run a campaign on its business programs in China. Before they knew it, Chinese students flooded in and all their programs were full overnight. People who couldn't get in didn't know where the bloody hell New South Wales was, but did remember UNSW mentioning something about Sydney. And guess what turned up when they google "university" and "Sydney"? University of Sydney and University of Technology, Sydney (which has a MBA program that doesn't have any prerequisites for entering is all I am gonna say about UTS) both benefited from this campaign, perhaps even more so, given that both campuses are a lot closer to the city and Chinatown.
So as it happened, a surprised USYD saw its business classes grew as much as 6 times in size and did not prepare any extra resources.
The next year though, USYD decided to raise the price by 30% (ouch, as a result my local rate were affected also), and only half of the students turned up.
Anyway, today wherever I go in uni, I am surrounded by my fellow Chinese students - electronic-dictionary clutching, confused looking and glasses-wearing.
God I am a mean bitch.
