Entry requirements

Qualifications

One of the following:

• successful completion of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) or its equivalent, such as an interstate or international Year 12 qualification.
• completion or partial completion of a degree.

Course prerequisites

• VCE Units 3 and 4: a minimum study score of 25 in any English (except EAL) or 30 in English as Alternate Language (EAL) or equivalent

Applicants with vocational education and training (VET) study

If you have previous Vocational Education and Training, we can use your results as a basis of admission to an undergraduate course.

We take into consideration how many units you have passed and whether you completed the course.

Even if it’s been a while since you were in TAFE or other VE studies (i.e. not within the past seven years), you will be considered for entry if you completed your VE qualification.

You’ll receive an offer if your study is assessed as meeting the admission requirements for your preferred Swinburne course. If you don’t meet the requirements, you'll be given an alternate course offer or pathway option.

Where course entry requirements include prerequisite subjects, you must present evidence of having successfully acquired the required knowledge and skills through current or previous studies. Individual course admission criteria will identify where that prerequisite study needs to have been undertaken within a certain time period.

Applicants with higher education study

You could be studying at a different university, then decide to switch to Swinburne. Your results from your previous university will be used to assess whether you can enter an undergraduate course.

We take into consideration your results and whether you completed the course:

• If your higher education study (either complete or incomplete) was undertaken in the last seven years, we will consider those results as a basis for admission
• If your results are from more than seven years ago and you did not complete your university degree, you will be considered for entry, but you may sit the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) (where STAT is included in specific course admission criteria)
• If you completed your course more than seven years ago, we will consider whether your results and qualifications are a suitable basis for entry to your chosen course.

Where course entry requirements include prerequisite subjects, you must present evidence of having successfully acquired the required knowledge and skills through current or previous studies.

Applicants with work and life experience

Some undergraduate courses accept applicants based on their relevant work and life experience – see Course search to further details. Applicants will be asked to provide a detailed Curriculum Vitae, position description/s of relevant current and past employment and letter/s of recommendation from employers.

Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT)

For entry to some undergraduate courses, you may sit the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) Multiple Choice.

To be eligible for admissions on the basis of the STAT, you must be:

• a Non-Year 12 applicant (i.e. you must not be a current (2022) or recent Year 12 student (or equivalent) within the last 2 years (i.e. 2020 or 2021), and
• at least 19 years old on 31st December in the year you commence your studies

Swinburne will consider your STAT results if you have:

• no prior or recent secondary school results (Year 12 or equivalent) or work experience that meet the entry requirements for the course, or
• no recent TAFE or university results (within the last 7 years) that could be considered for entry

Your scores from the STAT test will be used to determine your selection rank.

You must also meet any course prerequisites and additional entry requirements to receive an offer to a preferred course.