UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES – ADMISSION

Wait is over for 85,000 applicants

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Original article by Amy McNeilage
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 11 : 22-Jan-15

Some 46,000 prospective university students received offers of places in undergraduate courses on 21 January 2015. The University of Western Sydney’s degree in physiotherapy had the highest Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). The Australian Catholic University’s degree in occupational therapy and the University of Sydney’s degree in paramedicine are among the courses that have higher ATARs than in 2014

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UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, UNIVERSITIES ADMISSIONS CENTRE (NSW AND ACT) PTY LTD

Only two universities increase first-round offers

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Original article by Benjamin Preiss, Henrietta Cook, Craig Butt
The Age – Page: 2 : 20-Jan-15

Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) data shows that 48,599 first-round offers of university places have been made in 2015, which is one per cent lower than previously. The number of people applying for undergraduate courses via VTAC fell by 2.2 per cent, to 76,648. Some universities have reported a rise in the number of people applying directly. The University of Melbourne and the Australian Catholic University were the only institutions to make more first-round offers than in 2014

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VICTORIAN TERTIARY ADMISSIONS CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, FEDERATION UNIVERSITY AUSTRALIA, DEAKIN UNIVERSITY, SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION UNION, VICTORIA. DEPT OF EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT

Uni place offers slide 27pc

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Original article by Phoebe Wearne
The West Australian – Page: 11 : 16-Jan-15

Data from Western Australia’s Tertiary Institutions Service Centre show that 8,058 school-leavers have applied for places at the state’s universities in 2015. This is 32 per cent lower than in 2014, while the number of applications from non-school-leavers has fallen by 13.4 per cent. Meanwhile, the total number of university places offered by the state’s four public institutions has fallen by 27 per cent, to 11,560

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA. TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS SERVICE CENTRE, MURDOCH UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY