Mid-year applications

Check entry standards

If you meet the indicative standards for our courses, we encourage you to apply.

• If you haven’t completed any study since completing secondary school/Year 12 refer to the indicative minimum ATAR and guaranteed ATAR (if applicable)
• If you already have tertiary studies of 1 equivalent full-time student load (EFTSL) equal to 100 credit points or more, refer to the indicative minimum weighted average mark (WAM). If you have less than 1 EFTSL, a combination of both ATAR and WAM may be considered depending on the course.

Indicative entry standards for mid-year 2025 entry (domestic applicants)

^{* Domestic school-leaver applicants who satisfy course prerequisites and have achieved the 2025 lowest selection rank (ATAR) will be considered for a place but are not guaranteed. The lowest selection rank to which a domestic offer is made may be higher in the mid-year intake than it was in the start year intake, depending on demand for the course and the number of places available. The lowest selection rank should be used as a guide only. Only domestic applicants eligible for special entry schemes may be admitted below the lowest selection rank.}

^{^ Domestic school-leaver applicants who completed an Australian Year 12 qualification or the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma mid-year 2025; apply for their preferred undergraduate course in VTAC; satisfy course prerequisites; achieve the Guaranteed ATAR (or notional ATAR); and preference appropriately to receive an offer will be certain of a place in their chosen degree. Please note that you will NOT be classified as a school-leaver applicant if you have completed any tertiary studies since completing the Australian Year 12 or the IB Diploma (or equivalent).}

^{+  Final entry standards in our mid-year intake depend upon the demand for our available places, which means that meeting a WAM that is published here does not guarantee a place. Tertiary transfer applicants must satisfy all course prerequisites and any extra requirements (a tertiary WAM alone does not qualify tertiary applicants for an offer).}

Refer to Find a course for prerequisite information on the relevant course. For details about how your application is assessed, see How you're selected.

Submit your course application

Domestic students apply for mid-year intake through the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC). When you apply you must disclose any tertiary study that you have undertaken - or are currently undertaking during Semester 1, 2025 - at any institution.

Internal transfer applicants with a Semester 1, 2025 enrolment at the University of Melbourne must disclose this enrolment in their mid-year VTAC application.

Apply through VTAC

Current University of Melbourne students

Current students applying to transfer to a different undergraduate University of Melbourne course must apply for an ‘internal transfer’ via VTAC and disclose their current enrolment at the University in their VTAC application. Note that selection for an internal transfer is competitive, and prerequisites must still be satisfied.

Students granted permanent residency

Current international students who have commenced their studies with us as an international student but have recently been granted Australian permanent residency don’t need to reapply to be considered for a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) in the same course. Follow these instructions to let us know about your change of citizenship and you’ll automatically be considered for a CSP in your current course ahead of the next semester.

Please note that the University is granted a set number of CSPs, and each year these places are awarded – based on academic merit – to both commencing domestic students and those continuing/current domestic students who have been moved into an Australian Fee (AF) place following a citizenship change. Your eligibility for a CSP in your current course will be assessed competitively against the rest of the applicant pool ahead of the next semester, and selection will be based on your entire academic record.

Special entry schemes

Access Melbourne

Access Melbourne is our Special Entry Access Scheme (SEAS) for domestic undergraduate students. It can help you gain a place in our degrees even if your academic results are below the lowest selection rank normally required for an offer. The scheme takes into consideration the unique and personal circumstances that may have impacted your final secondary school results. Use our Access Melbourne calculator to check your eligibility.

Access Melbourne also includes generous scholarships and grants that can ease the financial load, and a housing program to get you securely settled close to campus.

If you are a domestic school-leaver applicant, you may be eligible to apply using one or more of the following categories:

• Disadvantaged financial background (guaranteed places available)
• Resident of a regional or remote area (guaranteed places available)
• Recognition as an Indigenous Australian (guaranteed places available)
• First in family
• Graduate of an under-represented school
• Difficult circumstances
• Disability or medical condition
• Non-English speaking background
• Non-school leaver entry pathway (mature-age consideration).

How to apply for Access Melbourne

• Check your eligibility for one or more the Access Melbourne categories
• Submit a course application through VTAC
• Complete the SEAS application form on the VTAC website and apply before the application deadline.

Find out more

Elite Athletes and Artistic Performers Entry Scheme

If you're an elite athlete or artistic performer who has competed at an international, national or state level you may be eligible for our Elite Athletes and Artistic Performers Entry Scheme.

Find out more

Submit results and SEAS documentation (if applicable)

Once you’ve lodged your course application, you’ll also need to submit your SEAS application on the VTAC website by 5pm on Friday 6 June 2025.

Current tertiary students

If you're a current tertiary student at an Australian institution, your Semester 1 2025 results will (in most cases) be automatically available to the University via VTAC, even if the results are released after the application closing date.

Please make sure your VTAC registration contains all required details about your current/previous tertiary enrolment. If VTAC cannot automatically access your tertiary results they will contact you – it will then become your responsibility to provide your results to VTAC in hardcopy.

If your current tertiary institution does not officially release Semester 1 2025 results by 5pm on Wednesday 9 July, we may be unable to assess your mid-year application.

If you’re currently studying at an Australian university that will not release official Semester 1 2025 results until on or after Friday 13 June, you may wish to take steps to source a statement of your final Semester 1 2025 results and provide these directly to the University of Melbourne by no later than 5pm on Wednesday 9 July.

All statements of results submitted directly to us must be on official letterhead and be signed/stamped by your current university – a print-out of your results from your student portal account is insufficient and will not be considered.

Official endorsed results statements should be scanned and emailed to: undergrad-admissions@unimelb.edu.au. Please include your VTAC ID number in the subject line of this email, and detail your full name, date of birth and the University of Melbourne course(s) that you have applied for - via VTAC - in the body of your email.

Results obtained outside Australia

If you have results attained outside of Australia for any tertiary studies (university or TAFE) or Year 12, submit these to VTAC in support of your application. See the VTAC website for more information. We strongly recommend that you also obtain detailed syllabus statements for tertiary subjects completed outside of Australia that may be required to satisfy course prerequisites (for example, mathematics subjects that you believe may satisfy the mathematics prerequisite for our Bachelor of Commerce course, where you did not complete mathematics studies in an approved Year 12 program). These syllabus statements should also be submitted to VTAC in support of your application.

Search for a scholarship

In most cases you don’t need to submit a separate application for an entry scholarship.

Students who submit their SEAS application for Access Melbourne will be automatically considered for a Melbourne Access Scholarship.

There are also hundreds of course-specific scholarships you could be eligible for which require a separate application. These can be found on the relevant degree pages under 'fees and scholarships', on faculty websites or by exploring our scholarships website.

Explore scholarships

Receiving an offer

For mid-year 2025, University of Melbourne domestic offers will be released in the following VTAC offer rounds:

• June round (VTAC offer round 1), Tuesday 24 June 2025^*
• July round 1 (VTAC offer round 2), Thursday 3 July 2025^*
• July round 2 (VTAC offer round 3), Friday 11 July 2025
• July round 3 (VTAC offer round 4), Tuesday 22 July 2025^~

Check your VTAC account (after 2pm) on these dates to see if you have been offered a place.

If you have been successful, an email offer from the University will be sent to you on the same afternoon with a link to our ‘Get started at Melbourne’ website, which provides advice about how to accept your offer and enrol.

^* Please note, if you do not receive an offer in the June round or July round 1, it may be because we have not yet received your Semester 1 2025 results for consideration. If you still have results pending, you’ll need to wait until July round 2 or 3 for an outcome. This timing applies to most current tertiary students, including current University of Melbourne students who are applying for an internal transfer.

^~ University of Melbourne courses may be fully subscribed before July round 3. The University may not release offers for all undergraduate courses in this final mid-year offer round.

Credit (advanced standing)

After you receive a course offer you can apply to transfer any recognised prior learning by applying for Advanced Standing (also known as credit or recognition of prior learning).

Receiving credit means that you won’t have to repeat subjects that have equivalents in your new course, and you may be able to finish your course sooner. More details about applying for credit will be sent to you along with your course offer.

Deferrals

Domestic students offered a place at mid-year may be eligible to defer the commencement of their studies. Please note that deferrals are not automatically granted and not all undergraduate courses have the option to defer. Refer to the Defer my offer page for more detail.

Once you have received your offer, you can submit a deferral application online.