UAC (NSW) and QTAC (Queensland) Updates

QTAC 2025 Course Guide

Follow the link to the course guide here.

QTAC (Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre)

QTAC opens for student applications on Thursday 1st August 2024.

UAC Course Compass

If your Year 12 students need help deciding which uni course to apply for, direct them to Course Compass. After they answer a few quick questions about their HSC subjects, Course Compass will display fields of study offered to recent applicants just like them. They can then drill down to institutions offering courses that might suit them.

ATAR Compass

UAC's new tool, ATAR Compass, estimates a student’s ATAR using scaling statistics from the past five years. Students select their HSC courses and their estimated HSC marks to receive an estimated ATAR, which they can use as a guide to make decisions about their future study options. The tool will also indicate if a student’s subject choices make them eligible for an ATAR.

Three schemes to help you get to university

UAC works with universities to widen participation in higher education. In particular, UAC runs three schemes to help thousands of people access their potential through higher education.

1. Educational Access Scheme: helps UAC applicants who have experienced significant educational challenges.

2. Equity Scholarships: awarded to applicants who demonstrate the greatest financial need.

3. Schools Recommendation Scheme: an opportunity for Year 12 applicants to be assessed on criteria other than, or in addition to, the ATAR.

Early offers to Year 12 students

While the ATAR is still the main selection tool used by most unis, there are other ways for students to show that they’re ready to succeed at tertiary study. This means they may be able to receive an offer to university before ATARs are released.

Offers made through UAC

Because we have several offer rounds in the first half of the year, many Year 12 students ask us if they can receive an offer now. The short answer is 'no': the first UAC offers to Year 12 students will be made to Schools Recommendation Scheme (SRS) applicants on 10 November 2023. Offers made then are not based on HSC results and ATARs. Instead, they are based on other criteria like Year 11 results and the school's rating of the student.

Before November offers are made to applicants who are not in Year 12 this year and already have a qualification we can assess. They're often applying to start a course in semester 2.

Most UAC offers to Year 12 students are made in late December, after the release of ATARs.

Offers directly from the institutions

In addition to submitting an SRS application, Year 12 students can apply for an early offer directly to individual institutions. Each institution has different application and offer dates. All the details are on our website.

Early offer schemes for Year 12 students

UAC (NSW University Admissions Centre)

Educational Access Scheme

Some great news for students who are applying under the disadvantage code P01A: disability or long-term medical condition. If a student has applied for provisions through NESA, then the student will only have to upload the NESA documents, which must include the NESA letter of approval for provisions and an applicant statement.

This means the student will not need to provide a medical impact statement or educational impact statement. Only students who have not applied for NESA provisions or haven't been granted provisions will need to upload the medical impact statement and educational impact statement for this disadvantage type.

Why apply through UAC?

We know that students are unsure about whether they should apply directly to an institution or through UAC, and to increase their chances many are doing both. Not all institutions accept direct applications from Year 12 students but it’s important for students considering a direct application to remember the following:

A UAC application gives students five course preferences to choose; they don’t have to apply five times to five different institutions.
Having a UAC application enables students to apply for Access and early entry schemes: EAS, SRS and Equity Scholarships.
Having a UAC application as well as a direct application will give students more chance of securing an offer, so long as they don't enter the same preferences in both applications.

The UAC Guide

The UAC Guide will be arriving at schools from the beginning of Term 2.

The Guide contains everything Year 12 students – both domestic and international – need to know about applying for uni in 2025 in one handy publication. Comprehensive course descriptions can be found on UAC’s website. Course details can change throughout the year so encourage your students to check back regularly.

Open days

For an up-close experience of university life, encourage your students to attend a uni open day. Check back regularly for updates.

Top tips for starting university

The paperwork is done: you’ve accepted your uni offer and enrolled. But what can you expect when you actually

arrive on campus?

We asked current students for their top tips for starting university.

https://uac.edu.au/media-centre/news/top-tips-for-starting-university

10 Most Popular Uni Courses in 2023

Year 12 students from the class of 2022 are heading to university and we've compiled a list of the most in-demand

courses. Medicine and Business are top of the list!

Here are the top 10 most popular courses among UAC applicants in 2023.

https://uac.edu.au/media-centre/news/top-10-most-in-demand-courses-for-2023

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