ECON20005 Competition and Strategy (University of Melbourne): rated 4.2/5 overall, difficulty 2.0/5 (higher is harder) across 32 reviews collected on UniMelb Wall.
ECON20005 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: 竞争与战略
Type: Undergraduate subject
Subject area: Economics
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Economics
Level: Undergraduate Level 2
Handbook year: 2026
This is an introductory course in game theory and information economics. Topics include static and dynamic models of strategic interaction, decision making under uncertainty, adverse selection, signalling and screening models, coordination and cooperation, horizontal and vertical integration, col.
ECON20005 has 32 scored reviews: overall 4.2/5 · usefulness 4.3 · difficulty 2.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: the Actuarial Students' Society Subject Review 2025 course guide; 1 StudentVIP review (average 4.0 stars); 30 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 4.2/5).
Actuarial Students' Society Subject Review 2025: "Overall, this is a very easy and interesting subject. The questions and applications of strategical concepts were incredibly fun to perform, and once students figured out a general methodology to solve each type of question, they were rather straightforward. Students who are interested in strategy …"
On Reddit: "First of yall uni econ is far more quantitative. So instead of writing long response essays like you would've in VCE you'd be doing more stuff with formulas, lots of graphing and a bit of calcululs. So having done VCE econ I did feel there was chunky over lap (approx half the co…"
On Reddit: "ECON20005: Competition and Strategy is out. They must have scaled up the exam because I got a great score despite the difficulty of the exam."
The course panel on UniMelb Wall shows every review and discussion in full.
Q: Is ECON20005 hard?
A: Students rate ECON20005's difficulty 2.0/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it moderately difficult.
Q: Is ECON20005 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 32 reviews: usefulness 4.3/5, overall 4.2/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches ECON20005, and when is it offered?
A: ECON20005 is taught by the Faculty of Business and Economics. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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