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Australia’s Top Private University in Video

By: The OZtralia.tv Producers

Bond University is universally known as Australia’s top private university in Australia. Unique in its teaching style and structure, Bond has a trimester schedule keeping students on campus virtually year round. Throughout the year, hundreds of study abroad students call Bond home. Bond’s trimester schedule coincides with college timetables in the United States and Europe.

Founded in 1987, Bond is a very new University and the well fished grounds and facilities prove that point. Founded in 1987 by Alan Bond, the University is situated in Robina (sometimes referred to as Varsity Lakes) on Australia’s Gold Coast.

In 2008, Forbes Magazine rated Bond as “one of the most expensive universities in the world,” but we here at OZtralia.tv feel you get what you pay for with this place. Our President and Publisher graduated from Bond and he tells us that it was an amazing experience.

Bond University is ranked the number one university in Queensland, and it is said, arguably of course, that it is the best university in Australia. I did not know this when applying. I just wanted to go to Australia. A lot of the American students were just like me in not knowing what they were applying for. It is evident by their actions.

My first week of classes at Bond University has blown me away. It is the passion. Passion for teaching equates to passion for learning in my opinion.

Anyone who has set foot in a lecture hall to attend a class initially makes judgments about the professor. Students will examine the professor as he walks into the room, looking him up and down trying to decipher any one clue that might be able to determine whether the semester’s lectures might be boring or exciting.

When a professor opens her mouth and the student can feel her passion for the subject, it is quite obvious that the lectures will be exciting. Judging by this first week, I am actively trying to figure out how I can bottle up this passion and use it to the full extent I can. I felt the same way at Albertson.

Being abroad, sometimes I miss ACI. There is a young woman here at Bond also from ACI. The other day she and I were reminiscing about the Taste of the Harvest festival and the like.

As I said before, I came to ACI quite by mistake and was blown away by the passion being professed. I now have come to Bond through some twist of fate and have experienced the same situation.

Last summer during a meeting in New York an executive said, “In our business all the great things happen by mistake.” Well, at least I know I am on path in the business.