Australia counts with 38 public Universities and two private universities (Bond University and University of Notre Dame), whose most famous are the « group of 8 »: University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, University of Queensland, Adelaide University, Australian National University, University of Western Australia, Monash University and University of New South Wales.
The Australien university system is composed of 2 cycles: Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes. Please refer to our section Equivalences for further details about university pathways and equivalences.
Each university year is divided in 2 semesters lasting + ou - 20 weeks each, composed of 4 different subjects each ; each subject is offered at the rhythm of 3 hours per week and completed by final exams at the end of each semester ; this means you will be enrolled in a minimum of 8 different subjects per year and will seat for 4 final exams each semester. Each subject is worth a certain number of credits, from 4 to 12 credits maximum: the highest the credits, the harder and most important the subject . Teachers are very available, classes vary according to the subjects and you can finish your degree earlier if you enrol in the summer school programme between December and January of each year.

Due to Australia’s proximity to Asia, you will be surrounded by a lot of different cultures along your studies, and considering that China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore… are the world economical giants, you will gain a precious experience that will boost your Curriculum Vitae!

General introduction:

- Admission: the main start date is in February or March each year ; there is also a mid-year entry in July or August but not all careers are offered.
- International students are offered a limited choice of careers in comparison with Australian students
- All payments for international students are to be done every semester.
- The selection of careers is wide and all programmes are divided in "Faculties”
- If you are planning to reduce your study time at Undergraduate or Postgraduate level because of previous studies, you can ask Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL). This process requires a certain preparation. Contact usfor more details

There are two types of Australian Bachelor Degree:

- Bachelor Degree (from 3 to 5 year duration according the selected career); a greater number of Australian universities offer Combined Degrees, from minimum 4 to 5 years ; they allow you to graduate in two differents fields.

- Honours Degree (is one year longer than the previous one and is based on a thesis; can be equivalent to a Master Degree)

Duration: between 3 to 5 years.

Costs: from AU$5.800 to AU$10.000/semester (ie a total of minimum AU$34.800)

Entry requirements:
- Certificate equivalent to the Australian Year 12 (Warning: you must have a minimum General Points Average (GPA) to be accepted in bachelor degree, depending on the selected career. If your results are insufficient, you will have to apply for a Foundation Study);
- Level of English equivalent or superior to IELTS 6.0 or 6.5 overall Academic Training (minimum IELTS 6.0 in writing) or TOEFL 210 computer based (minimum 4 essay rating); Some faculties require IELTS 7.0 overall (minimum IELTS 7.0 in writing)

Foundation Study: if your Year 12 results are insufficient, you will have to apply for this programme that last at least one year, costs minimum AU$ 15.000 and upon successful completion, will allow you to enter directly in the 2nd year of the selected Bachelor degree.

Study Abroad Programme: it allows you to be enrolled in one or 2 semesters maximim in any Australian university in your selected career; you results will be automatically validated by your institution in your home country (requirements: Level of English equivalent o superior to IELTS 6.0 overall Academic Training (minimum IELTS 6.0 in writing) or TOEFL 213 computer based (minimum 4 essay rating).

Award recognition: all Australian Bachelor degrees should be recognized internationally.

They are divided in 4 parts:

Graduate Certificate: lasts for 6 months and corresponds to the first semester of a Master; particularly popular among students and young professionnals who wish to improve their qualification, update their skills or change career.

Graduate Diploma: lasts generally for 1 year and corresponds to the first 2 semesters of a Master; particularly popular among students and young professionnals who wish to improve their qualification, update their skills or change career

Masters: you can choose between Master Coursework (lasts between 1 and 2 years) or Master Research (lasts 2 years minimum and based on a full time research : entry is very competitive

PHD: corresponds to a Doctorate, lasts 3 years minimum on full time mode only. Entry requirements are very specific.

Costs: from AU$7.500 to AU$15.000/semester

Entry requirements:
- Equivalent to a Bachelor degree in your home country with or without any related work experience, OR at least over 6 years of related work experience.
- Level of English equivalent o superior to IELTS 6.5 overall Academic Training (minimum IELTS 6.0 in writing) or TOEFL 237 computer based (minimum 4.5 essay rating); Some faculties require IELTS 7.0 overall (minimum IELTS 7.0 in writing)

- If you have already an equivalence to an Australian Master, we advise you to enrol in a MBA, unless you need to complement your previous studies in another field.

- It’s a real headache to find appropriate and relevant information to provide the universities with a correct application, on your own, from your home country, so contact us and we will guide and assist you for free to organise your application and student visa.

LATEST NEWS!!! THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY has been ranked as one of the world's top 50 universities in the latest survey of global universities.
The Newsweek global top 100 published this month has ranked universities from around the world taking into account openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Gavin Brown said that although there was no evaluation of quality of teaching or the all-round student experience, the Newsweek rankings were the most realistic of the growing number of global league tables.
In the recently published Shanghai Jiao Tong University's league table of the top 500, which gives special weighting to Nobel Prize winners, the University of Sydney is ranked equal third of the Australian universities in the category 101 to 150.
The Newsweek analysis is based on the number of highly-cited researchers, the number of articles published in nature and Science and the number of articles published in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities indices. Newsweek also takes into account the percentage of international faculty, percentage of international students, citations per staff member (using ISI data), the ratio of faculty to students and the size of library holdings.
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Please see below the list of our favourite partners:

The University of Sydney (Ranked in 2006 as one of the top 50 universities in the world)
Macquarie University
University of Technology Sydney
University of Wollongong (Ranked as the best university in Australia by the 2007 GOOD UNIVERSITIES GUIDE by obtaining a total score of 57 stars out of 65)
University of Western Sydney
Australian Catholic University
Charles Sturt University
Bond University
Griffith University
James Cook University
University of the Sunshine Coast (USC wins the 2006 national awards for teaching excellence by the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education awards, an Australian Government initiative designed to reward teaching excellence in the higher education sector)
Swinburne University
RMIT
University of South Australia