Page | 1 Explain why overseas study at Australian universities is popular Nowadays, Australian universities have become more popular in the international arena and are the crowd favourite for overseas study especially among Asians. For that, the term "overseas study" in this essay refers to the tertiary education in Australian universities at undergraduate or postgraduate level. There are a lot of reasons why Australian universities are popular, some of which are because of the high standard education, future prospect for students and physical and social environment. This explanation will begin with the standard education of the universities in Australia. This is the main reason why they have become the student's choice for overseas study. For the past decades, there is no doubt that the education quality in Australian universities become better and increase significantly year by year. In fact, in 2013, there are 6 Australian universities that successfully made it into top 100 universities for the Times Higher Education (THE). This is indirectly shown that the universities in Australia offers higher standard education compares to rest of universities in the world. Besides that, Australian universities also become popular for overseas study because they offer better future prospect for student. This is because of the good education standard in the universities and thus will hand the students better degree quality when they graduated. Not only that, since Australia is an English speaking country, by hook or by crook, the overseas students need to practise and master their English so that they can study and communicate excellently. Thus, both of this points are very important for the students as they will use them in career interview that will lead to a better job opportunity for them in the future. Muhammad Zil Ikram Bin Bahrudin G016605, BP2