Preparing to arrive

Make your move to Melbourne easier by planning ahead. Make sure when you arrange your flights to Australia, you give yourself enough time before enrolment and orientation to adjust to living in a new country.

Before you arrive

Start planning:

• where you will live while in Australia
• your budget
• life in Melbourne
• who will meet you at the airport

Use our checklist for things to do before you arrive to make sure you haven't missed anything.

Prepare yourself for Foundation Year with our list of requirements (including laptop specifications).

Download our welcome desk flyer:

• English (pdf)
• Chinese (pdf)
• Hindi (pdf)
• Indonesian (pdf)
• Japanese (pdf)
• Korean (pdf)

Before classes start

Prepare yourself for your first weeks at Monash by:

• finding out how to get to your new campus
• reading about the process for enrolment and orientation
• checking your course dates.

During orientation

Making new friends will help you feel more settled in a new country. Give yourself time to explore your new home and enjoy what Australia has to offer.