Another university application data dump, another Go8 domination. The University of Sydney has once again led first and total preliminary preferences among NSW and ACT domestic undergraduate university applicants. Also, per the previous year, UNSW, UTS, WSU, Macquarie and UON followed. USYD slightly increased ...
More »Relief for uni applicants from drought-stricken regions
The NSW countryside is bone dry. Once verdant towns like Bowral in the Southern Highlands and Muswellbrook in the Hunter are now whitish-yellow – and classified as areas of 'intense drought'. Indeed, the whole state has been designated as 'in drought'. With ...
More »2018’s most popular courses: UAC
University offers have been released and the stats are in: health, law and business are the most popular areas of study for 2018. Data released from UAC today shows the latest round of university applicants had a strong preference for ...
More »Students’ most wanted: uni preferences revealed
Year 12 results are almost out, meaning NSW and ACT school students are about to discover if they've achieved their #goals. One of these may be to get into USYD. Australia's first university scooped 14.84 per cent of overall preferences, per UAC figures released today. UNSW, ...
More »Health studies most popular among university applicants
Health has taken out the top spot as the most popular field of study among early-bird university applicants. Statistics from the Universities Admission Centre (UAC) show that of the 62,000 students who have so far applied for courses, at least ...
More »Rocket science tops ATAR list
The University of Sydney's Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronic) (Space) course had the highest Australia Tertiary Admission Rank cut-off of any degrees offered to students in the main round offers this year. The University Admissions Centre made offers to more than ...
More »