For schools outside Australia bringing student groups to Melbourne. Visa guidance, pre-departure readiness, multilingual communication, and a named Melbourne team that co-manages the tour end-to-end with your accompanying teachers.
If your students are coming to Australia, Melbourne gives them the deepest experience per day — because nearly every activity is within 60 minutes of the campus where they'll sleep and learn.
Melbourne has the highest density of international students in Australia. Students aren't visiting a tourist city — they're visiting a real study destination where they can picture themselves enrolling later. Campus Melbourne is home to Melbourne Uni and RMIT students.
Melbourne hosts the Australian Open, Formula 1, the AFL Grand Final, and is home to the MCG. It's consistently ranked among the world's most liveable cities. For 10–17 year olds from Asia, this is the Australia they've seen on TV, made real.
Sovereign Hill is 90 minutes away. The MCG is 20 minutes. The Great Ocean Road and Phillip Island are both day trips. No early-morning interstate flights or 6-hour bus rides between experiences — every day in the itinerary is productive.
A typical international school booking takes 4–6 months from enquiry to departure. Here's the sequence. For July/August 2026 cohorts via our China partner TravelMart, the key cut-off is May 15.
Chinese schools working via TravelMart must confirm July/August 2026 groups by May 15. After this, available dates shift to October onwards.
Email us with your group size, age bracket, and preferred dates. We respond within 24 hours with a proposal including itinerary, transparent tier pricing, inclusions, and T&Cs. No obligation.
Your head of school and finance team review. 20% deposit locks the dates. We begin confirming suppliers — Campus Melbourne rooms, host school for Day 5, JCT Coach allocation, Borderless Growth teachers.
Visitor visas for Australia typically take 4–12 weeks to process depending on source country. We provide visa guidance documentation, timeline advisory, and supporting school-invitation letters. Your families or your agent handle the submission.
We send a parent information pack for you to customise and circulate — itinerary, accommodation safety, packing list, dietary form, medical form, emergency contacts. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, and Portuguese.
Remaining 80% of fees due. All student medical and dietary information collected. Parent questions channelled to us via your school — we'll draft responses for you to forward.
For groups opting in to Borderless Growth's 3-session Online Readiness Program, sessions begin 4 weeks before departure. Students meet their Melbourne teachers online and build baseline English confidence.
Flight details, accompanying teacher briefing, 24-hour Melbourne emergency contact, welcome pack. Your group lands in Melbourne and is met at the airport by JCT Coaches for transfer to Campus Melbourne.
Parents of 10–14 year old students always ask the same question: will my child cope? Our optional 3-session Pre-Study Tour Online Readiness Program, delivered by Borderless Growth teachers in the weeks before departure, makes sure the answer is yes.
Especially valuable for first-time travellers and students whose English confidence is developing. Familiar faces on Day 1 transform an overwhelming week into a friendly one.
Students meet their Melbourne-based Borderless Growth teachers online. Familiar faces on Day 1 make an enormous difference to confidence for first-time travellers.
A light, confidence-building session that establishes each student's comfort level in English — and plants the questions they'll bring to the Australian classroom.
A walk-through of the week: Campus Melbourne, classroom culture, Australian slang, the school integration day, food, timetable. No surprises means less anxiety — for students and for parents.
We're not registered migration agents, so we don't submit visa applications ourselves — but we provide the documentation your school, families, or booking agent need to get student visas over the line smoothly.
Students aged under 18 travelling on a study tour typically enter Australia on a Visitor visa (Subclass 600). Processing time varies significantly by source country — typically 4–12 weeks, sometimes longer. We recommend applying a minimum of 8 weeks before departure.
We provide a formal letter of invitation from Study Tour Melbourne confirming the student's enrolment in the program, dates of stay, accommodation at Campus Melbourne, and emergency contact. Required documentation for most visa applications.
Students under 18 require a signed parental/guardian consent form and evidence of accompanying teacher supervision. We provide the template; your school countersigns. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, and Portuguese.
All students must have comprehensive travel insurance covering medical, cancellation, and emergency evacuation. Your school typically organises this via a preferred provider — or your booking agent arranges as part of the package.
A minimum ratio of 1 accompanying teacher per 10 students is required. Your accompanying teachers retain overnight duty of care; Borderless Growth provides the educational program. Teachers are met at the airport and briefed on arrival.
For groups of 15+ on the same flight itinerary, some visa processing can be batched to reduce delays. Your booking agent or our partner network (TravelMart in China) can advise on the specific workflow for your country.
We know the questions parents ask in Shanghai or Mumbai or São Paulo are different from the questions a head of school asks. We build communication materials for both audiences.
We send your school a parent information pack templated for your audience — English, Simplified Chinese, Hindi, or Portuguese — that you customise with your school branding and circulate to families.
We provide pre-drafted answers to the 15 questions parents most commonly ask — food, safety, curfews, communication home, illness. Your school forwards these or drafts from them.
Each day your accompanying teacher receives a summary and photo set to share with families in your school's preferred channel (WeChat, WhatsApp, school app). Parents see their child safe and learning.
Email us with your country, school, group size, and rough dates. We'll have a proposal and school invitation letter ready for your leadership within 24 hours — in your language where available.