Steps to completing your application
Applications for semester 1 close Friday 7 February. Before applying or changing preferences, contact the institution to check course vacancies.
Applications for 2020-21 admissions open on Wednesday 1 April.
- Enter your personal details (including a personal email address). The name on your application must match the name on your official ID, otherwise you’ll have problems when you enrol.
- Enter your 2018 or 2019 Year 12 student number and UAC PIN.
- Provide details of your studies and qualifications (including completed secondary studies and complete or incomplete certificate, diploma and degree studies).
- Select up to six course preferences.
- Accept the applicant declaration.
- Pay for your application with a credit card (Mastercard or Visa) or PayPal account. 2019 Year 12 students can also pay using BPAY or Post Billpay (in Australia only). Your application is not complete until you have paid.
After you apply, check your email regularly for updates on your application.
Once you've applied, you can change the order of your preferences – or even the courses you’ve selected – as often as you like before the closing dates for each offer round. (Some courses have early application closing dates so check for these as well.) Simply log in to your application using your UAC application number and UAC PIN. You can't change your preferences by phone, letter or email.
Application and offer dates for 2019-20 admissions
Most offers to 2019 Year 12 applicants will be made after ATARs are released in December, but there are many offer rounds throughout the year.
Application and offer dates (Sydney time): semester 1, 2020
| Apply and pay by midnight on | Change your courses by midnight on* | Unconditional offers released at 7.30am on |
| Sat 4 May 2019 | Sun 5 May 2019 | Fri 10 May 2019 |
| Sat 1 Jun 2019 | Sun 2 Jun 2019 | Fri 7 Jun 2019 |
| Sat 15 Jun 2019 | Sun 16 Jun 2019 | Fri 21 Jun 2019 |
| Fri 5 Jul 2019 | Sat 6 Jul 2019 | Thu 11 Jul 2019 |
| Sat 17 Aug 2019 | Sun 18 Aug 2019 | Fri 23 Aug 2019 |
| Sat 14 Sep 2019 | Sun 15 Sep 2019 | Fri 20 Sep 2019 |
| Tue 17 Dec 2019 | Thu 19 Dec 2019 | Mon 23 Dec 2019 |
| Sun 5 Jan 2020 | Mon 6 Jan 2020 | Sat 11 Jan 2020 |
| Fri 10 Jan 2020 | Sat 11 Jan 2020 | Thu 16 Jan 2020 |
| Sat 25 Jan 2020 | Sun 26 Jan 2020 | Fri 31 Jan 2020 |
| Sat 7 Feb 2020 | Sun 8 Feb 2020 | Fri 14 Feb 2020 |
| Sat 7 Feb 2020 | Sun 1 Mar 2020 | Fri 6 Mar 2020 |
* Do not change your courses between this date and the date offers are released; if you do, you may miss out on an offer to your preferred course.
Offers
Offers are released here at 7.30am on each offer round date. Click the 'Apply or log in' button at the top of the page and log in to 'International offers' with your UAC application number and UAC PIN.
We'll also send you an email, so it is important that we have your correct email address. This can be updated at any time via your application.
You can receive one offer per institution in each offer round.
For example, if you list six courses, all for Western Sydney University, in your application, you'll only receive one offer – from Western Sydney University – to the highest course listed for which you are eligible and competitive enough.
If you list six courses, three for Macquarie University and three for the University of Newcastle, you'll receive two offers – one to the highest course listed at Macquarie University for which you are eligible and competitive enough, and one to the highest course listed at the University of Newcastle for which you are eligible and competitive enough.
To be offered a place in a course you must:
- be eligible to be considered by meeting the academic requirements of the institution and the specific entrance requirements of the course
- compete against other eligible applicants.
Conditional and unconditional offers
CONDITIONAL OFFERS
Approximately 48 hours after you have applied through UAC, you’ll receive a conditional offer letter, which you may use as part of your pre-visa assessment if required. Your conditional offer letter will list all the courses for which you have applied. Access this letter by logging in to your application.
This letter is a conditional offer of admission only; it doesn't mean you are eligible to enrol in a course of study. To be eligible to enrol in a course of study, you need to receive an unconditional offer, meet the minimum admission requirements of the institution and compete against other applicants for a place.
UNCONDITIONAL OFFERS
To receive an unconditional offer for a course you must have it in your list of courses when offers are made, have a selection rank (or equivalent) equal to/or higher than the final lowest selection rank for admission to the course, and have met any other entry requirements for the course.
UAC starts issuing unconditional offer letters to successful applicants on behalf of institutions mid-May. However, most offers will be made from mid-December, after final Year 12 results have been received.
You do not have to provide a copy of your results to UAC as we obtain them directly from the relevant Australian organisation or the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.
Ask your school IB Diploma coordinator to authorise the International Baccalaureate (IB) to release your IB Diploma results directly to UAC. This needs to be done in addition to any other request for results to be sent to an institution.
As interstate Year 12, International Baccalaureate and New Zealand NCEA results are released on various dates, UAC cannot guarantee inclusion and assessment of these results in time for a specific offer round.
Unsuccessful applicants
If you don't receive an offer in one round, you can log in to your application and change your course selection for the following round. If you are not made any offers for admission throughout the year, we'll email you after the February and March rounds.
Upcoming application and offer dates
25
Jan 2020
25 Jan 2020
International: Application deadline for 31 January offers
International applicants apply and pay by midnight for offers released on 31 January.
26
Jan 2020
26 Jan 2020
International: Change preferences for 31 January offers
Change your preferences by midnight for offers released on 31 January.
31
Jan 2020
31 Jan 2020
International: Unconditional offers released
Unconditional offers released to international students on this website at 7.30am.
07
Feb 2020
07 Feb 2020
International: Application deadline for semester 1 courses
International applicants apply and pay by midnight for final offers to semester 1 courses.