ECON20001 Intermediate Macroeconomics (University of Melbourne): rated 3.4/5 overall, difficulty 1.5/5 (higher is harder), would-recommend 5.0/5 across 33 reviews collected on UniMelb Wall.
ECON20001 is a University of Melbourne course taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics in Economics. This page brings together its handbook details and what UniMelb students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 中级宏观经济学
Type: Undergraduate subject
Subject area: Economics
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Economics
Level: Undergraduate Level 2
Handbook year: 2026
Intermediate macroeconomic analysis develops the tools, skills and knowledge base necessary to operate as a practicing macroeconomist. These may include: models of long run economic growth; an assessment of the evidence on economic growth and its implications; the flexible-price macroeconomic mod.
ECON20001 has 33 scored reviews: overall 3.4/5 · usefulness 3.5 · difficulty 1.5 · would-recommend 5.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 1 review by UniMelb students on UniMelb Wall (5.0/5 overall); the Actuarial Students' Society Subject Review 2025 course guide; 11 StudentVIP reviews (average 3.8 stars); 20 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.0/5).
Actuarial Students' Society Subject Review 2025: "Content-wise, like Introductory Macroeconomics, students spend time developing seemingly strange, obscure models that attempt to explain economic activities. The main difference is that in this course, you begin to appreciate the effectiveness of these models a bit more and consider how particularl…"
On Reddit: "Very time pressured exam imo and definitely more tricky than past exams."
On Reddit: "Did inter macro first (85), don’t see the need to do inter micro first it might help a bit but definitely not a necessity, just put in the effort to understand the concepts, there are a lot of graphs to understand but once you have each model down it’s actually quite easy, take …"
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Q: Is ECON20001 hard?
A: Students rate ECON20001's difficulty 1.5/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it on the easier side.
Q: Is ECON20001 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 33 reviews: would-recommend 5.0/5, usefulness 3.5/5, overall 3.4/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches ECON20001, and when is it offered?
A: ECON20001 is taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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