ENVISION

ACU - Early entry & Pathways to Bachelor Degrees

 

  • ACU Guarantee 2023

Guarantee your place at ACU, even before your Year 12 exams.  The ACU Guarantee program offers eligible Year 12 students a place at ACU based on your Year 11 results.

With the considerable challenges Year 12 students have been facing this year, ACU has introduced the ACU Guarantee program. Students can make an application through this program, have their Year 11 results considered, and ACU will produce a predicted selection rank and make a conditional early offer before final exams have been sat.  Applications for 2023 opened 18 July 2022 and will close 23 September 2022.  Students are required to apply through the ACU Guarantee application portal on the ACU website and can choose to apply for up to 2 courses.  Students will have to upload their Year 11 reports, and also provide up to three personal statements (maximum 200 words each) outlining their circumstances and motivation for university study.  ACU will assess these statements while they are calculating the predicted selection rank.  Students are required to address the following: 

  • Impact through empathy: how you have given back to your community, e.g., charity work, volunteering, contributions to local networks helping those in need.
  • Impact over adversity: how you have overcome financial hardship, personal illness, or disability, or disrupted or disadvantaged schooling.
  • Impact for family: how you have excelled in school in Australia if you are from a non-English speaking background, a refugee background or you have a lot of family responsibilities.

Each of these statements can add three points to a student’s selection rank, and the selection rank can be adjusted by a maximum of 10 points.

Students must also make a VTAC application.  Find out more at ACU Guarantee Program.

 

  • Diploma Courses as Pathways to Bachelor Degrees

ACU offers five diplomas that articulate into select bachelor degrees.  Students who complete a diploma may enter the second year of the desired bachelor’s degree.  An ATAR of 50.00 is usually required for entry.

 

  • The Diploma of Biomedical Science articulates into the Bachelor of Biomedical Science and may also provide a pathway into a range of double degrees. 

 

  • The Diploma of Business articulates into the Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Business Administration.

     
  • The Diploma of Exercise Science articulates into the Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science and may also provide a pathway into a range of double degrees.

 

  • The Diploma of Information Technology articulates into the Bachelor of Information Technology, and may also provide a pathway into a range of double degrees.

     
  • The Diploma of Nutrition Science articulates into the Bachelor of Nutrition Science.  It may also provide a pathway into the following double degrees:

Bachelor of Nutrition Science/Bachelor of Business Administration 

Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science/Bachelor of Nutrition Science.