The Universities Admissions Centre – www.uac.edu.au

Your entry into most courses will be assessed on the basis of your academic qualifications and results. Some courses also have additional selection criteria such as a personal statement, questionnaire, portfolio, audition, interview or test, which are considered either instead of or together with, your academic qualifications.

Each institution sets its own admission requirements and most offer pathway options to applicants who don’t meet these general requirements. Be sure to read the individual institution pages for details.

Selection is a competitive process and depends on how well you meet the selection criteria for each course.

Some institutions may offer you a place in a lower-level course if you’re not eligible or competitive enough to receive an offer to the course to which you’ve applied.

You can apply for undergraduate and postgraduate (coursework) study through UAC if you are:

• an Australian or New Zealand citizen
• a permanent resident of Australia
• the holder of an Australian permanent resident humanitarian visa.

You can also apply for undergraduate study through UAC if you’re an international student who has completed/is undertaking one of the following qualifications in 2021 or 2022:

• an Australian Year 12 in or outside Australia
• an International Baccalaureate Diploma
• a New Zealand National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) Level 3.

Everyone else needs to apply directly to the uni.

In your undergraduate application, you can select up to five-course preferences. If you’re an international Year 12 applicant or you’re applying for postgraduate courses, you can select up to six. If you’re interested in only one course, then enter only that course.

You can apply for the same course with multiple start dates, but each start date counts as a separate preference. Some courses have early closing dates. Check the latest course information through the course search.

Selecting courses starting in 2023: Some undergraduate courses starting in 2023 cannot be added to your application until August 2022. You are encouraged to choose at least one course in order to submit your application and then come back later to review and change your preferences.

First on your list should be the course you’d most like to do, followed by your second, third and fourth preferences, and so on.

See also: How to Track Your Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) Application

Undergraduate applicants

If you’re not selected for your first preference, you’ll be considered equally with all other eligible applicants for your second preference, and so on.

Your chance of being selected for a course is not decreased because you placed it as a lower-order preference. Similarly, you won’t be selected for a course just because you entered that course as a higher-order preference.

You can only receive one offer per round, so re-ordering your preferences after each round may give you multiple offers to choose from.

International Year 12 applicants

Each institution will consider your application separately and they will consider your courses in the order you’ve listed them. Therefore, you can receive an offer to your highest preference at each institution included in your application (if you are eligible and competitive enough).

Postgraduate applicants

Most institutions will consider your course preferences according to the order in which you list them. If you’re eligible and competitive enough for your first preference at each institution, you’ll be made an offer to that course and the rest of your preferences for that institution won’t be considered. Therefore, you can receive more than one offer but only one offer from each institution.

The Australian College of Applied Psychology may make you more than one offer (if you’re eligible). The offers will be to all the courses for which you’re eligible and competitive enough.

You can add, delete, or change the order of your courses by logging in to your application. You’ll need your UAC application number and UAC PIN. You can’t change your preferences by phone, letter, fax or email.

There is no charge to change your preferences and you can change them as many times as you like:

• before each undergraduate and international applicant offer a round preference closing date
• before the postgraduate course application closing dates.

There are short periods before each undergraduate offer round when you are unable to change your preferences in your application.

After you apply, you can log back into your application to make changes, upload documents, complete any required questionnaires and track the progress of your assessment.