Benefits

Our alumni have worked hard throughout their years at the University of Melbourne and while they may have moved on and into their careers, they remain an important part of the University community.

Benefits

We recognise the valuable contributions our alumni make to the University and in the world, and we think it's only fitting to ensure our alumni also benefit from the relationship. Our alumni can take advantage of a range of professional, social, and academic services and benefits, to help them connect with the University, and their fellow graduates, and to provide ongoing learning and networking opportunities.

Alumni can sign up for a personalised University of Melbourne email address, come back and explore the campus at a reunion, view exhibitions at exclusive curator-led tours of the Ian Potter Gallery or take advantage of special offers and prizes and keep up with University news through the monthly Melbourne Alumni e-news publication.

To encourage ongoing learning our alumni can access a range of online industry journals, take up a 20% discount on postgraduate study or take part in debates and discussions with industry leaders.

These are just some of the benefits available to our alumni.

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Networks

University of Melbourne alumni can be found in over 120 countries, with more than 35,000 alumni currently living and working outside of Australia.

Networks

For many of our alumni, graduation means returning to their home country, or the opportunity to work overseas. There's a world of opportunity available to our alumni, no matter where they may be.

Our alumni can link in to networks in Australia or overseas to expand their social connections or gain professional support.

Alumni networks also help our alumni keep up-to-date on local news, learn about job opportunities, gain tips on local business etiquette and cultural knowledge, promote their professional services, source potential staff and gain travel advice from alumni locals.

Our alumni can take advantage of a broad range of events through their networks in Australia or overseas. In New York our alumni attended a reception with renowned alumnus and former Director of the National Gallery of Victoria Dr Patrick McCaughey while in Malaysia 250 alumni attended a gala dinner to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the University of Melbourne Alumni Association of Malaysia.

In Hong Kong young alumni learned how to develop a successful leadership career at the Melbourne Leadership Series, while in Melbourne our alumni have been invited to attend a series of free public lectures associated with Melbourne's Tutankhamun Exhibition.

All around the world, our alumni are reconnecting with the University through a wide range of networking events.

Events

The University offers alumni a diverse calendar of events in Australia and around the globe. Spanning lectures with leading academics, tours of the campus, networking and career focused opportunities, cultural and artistic exhibitions, and reunions.

Events

It's not surprising that a forum offering fine wines, exquisite Italian antipasto, inspiring speakers and thought-provoking discussions in the off-campus precinct of Carlton has been hugely popular with our alumni. The Melbourne Conversation series was created to provide alumni with an opportunity to take part in challenging conversation with a fellow alumnus in the elegant surrounds of one of Melbourne's finest Italian restaurants.

Since its inception the series has been a sell-out success, with alumni enjoying the opportunity to hear speakers as diverse as Dr Berhan Ahmed (PhD 2001), who won Victoria's 2009 Australian of the Year award for his work with Melbourne's African communities,

Dr Steven Conte (PhD 2005), winner of the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction with his debut novel The Zookeeper's War, Ms Sally Capp (BCom, LLB(Hons) 1993) Victorian Agent-General in London and Ms Munya Andrews (LLB 1994) the only Indigenous female barrister currently practising at the Victorian Bar.

Since 2008 alumni have taken up the invitation to attend a series of exclusive Director's Tours of the Ian Potter Museum of Art on campus. The series provides alumni with the opportunity to be guided by an expert curator through six of the major exhibitions at the Potter throughout the year.

Career oriented events include the Melbourne Leadership Series; a dynamic forum in Melbourne and across Asia which provides alumni with the opportunity to gain valuable advice from fellow graduates and make useful connections with other alumni. Each event brings some of the most interesting, entrepreneurial, and successful alumni around the world to talk about their career to date, the lessons they have learned, their achievements, and their advice to other graduates in the earlier stages of their professional journey.

There is a full calendar of events our alumni can attend for inspiration, interest or to reconnect to the University and fellow alumni.

Experience

Graduates are sure to have particular memories as a student that influenced them in later life.

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Perhaps it was chatting in the corridor with their tutor that sparked a new professional leaning. Maybe it was sitting on the South Lawn with a group of people that grew to become lifelong friends. It could be a debut in the student theatre, playing in the University hockey team, or meeting a lifelong partner while doing a degree.

It's these sometimes small but pivotal University experiences that help to shape us professionally and that make the University a place of great fondness for our alumni.

Because of these formative University experiences, many alumni are keen to stay involved and give back to the University in a myriad of ways. Alumni offer their time and talent - speaking to students at graduations, lectures and pre departure briefings and marketing activities, offering their expertise on faculty committees and boards, and as student mentors and hosts.

Alumni also donate funds to the University and are the largest group of people to make bequests to the University.

Engagement

We encourage our alumni to contribute at any stage of their life or career, whether in Melbourne or beyond by engaging with students, other alumni and the University generally.

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Our alumni engage by volunteering to mentor students, initiating internships for students in their workplace, supporting students by donating to the Future Generation Scholarship Fund or talking to students about their experiences and profession.

The University hosts a range of events to facilitate ongoing engagement between alumni.

Our alumni also engage themselves by telling their alumni friends about University benefits, sharing their alumni experiences, and speaking at or helping to arrange events.

And our alumni continue to give back to the University by encouraging employers to look at University of Melbourne graduates when hiring, by taking part in University events such as graduations, sporting events or concerts and festivals, or serving as ambassadors of the university and higher education.

Find out how you can engage with alumni.

Achievements

Sometimes it seems like Melbourne alumni are everywhere—Professor Elizabeth Blackburn being awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine or Barry Humphries morphing into his alter ego Dame Edna Everage—and they're just the ones in the news.

Achievements

Melbourne graduates are accomplishing great things and contributing in amazing ways from the local to the global level. Some like Julia Gillard, Germaine Greer, or Peter Singer you hear about regularly. Others perform with much less scrutiny from the public, but are, nonetheless, doing great things.

No less impressive are recent graduates. Ellen Sandell works hard in championing climate change policy as Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition in Victoria and is also a recipient of the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award for 2009. PhD graduate Dan Murphy, a botanist at the National Herbarium of Victoria is driving a project tracking the DNA of weeds that has implications for Australia's biosecurity. In 2010 alone, 115 alumni were awarded Australia Day honors for their continued work in making Australia and the world a better place.