Early Admission FAQs

UOW has just announced three new degrees at UOW Liverpool Campus in 2025: 

• Bachelor of Primary Education
• Bachelor of Technology (Principles of Data Science)
• Bachelor of Criminology | Bachelor of Laws

These courses were not available during the first round of Early Admission, so we are reopening Early Admission applications for courses offered at UOW Liverpool Campus.

Applications are open here from 23 September - 1 November, more information and FAQs specific to Early Admission to UOW Liverpool is here for you.

All applicants will be sent their application’s outcome during the week of 2 September 2024.  

Successful applicants will receive their official UOW offers during this time. If you applied for two courses you will receive two separate emails, containing the outcome for each course you applied for.   

If you are not successful in your Early Admission application for a course preference, you will still receive an email, and we encourage you to lodge an application to UOW via the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) before the early bird closing date of Friday, 29 September 2024.  

Your Early Admission application will be reassessed once your final year 12 results are released. 

All successful Early Admission applicants must complete Year 12 and be eligible for the award of the Higher School Certificate (HSC), International Baccalaureate (IB) or interstate equivalent.   

Some individual course offers may have conditions that you will need to clear before you can enrol. We will list any conditions on your offer outcome email.  

Early Admission applications were assessed by UOW academics who took a holistic view of each individual applicant and considered a range of factors when assessing your application including: 

• Year 11 subject performance
• Any special circumstances that may have impacted performance in Year 11
• Your answers to UOW Indicators of Success questions
  

These factors demonstrated your readiness to study and succeed at UOW.

Congratulations on your offer! A place is reserved for you in the UOW course(s) you’ve been offered. There’s no need for you to formally accept the offer.  
  
You can enrol in your course starting Monday, 2 December 2024.   

UOW will send you an email with your UOW student number, so be sure to keep that information safe. We’ll stay in touch as your enrolment day approaches.

This is normal.

We are very methodical when we communicate the outcomes, so we don't 'blast' out emails. The outcome emails will be sent out over a few hours. This means if you applied for two courses, you will likely receive one outcome, and may have to wait a while for the second one to come through. 

Your outcome/s will come before the end of the week of 2 September. 

Congratulations!  

This means that you have been successful in gaining a spot in both of your course preferences.

You can only enrol in one course, so you will need to decide which course you want to study when it’s time to enrol.

Enrolment opens on Monday, 2 December 2024. We’ll stay in touch as your enrolment day approaches. 

No.

While a place has been reserved for you in both courses that you have been offered, you can only enrol in one.

Enrolment opens on Monday 2 December, so you have until then to make your decision. We're more than happy to talk you through your options. Feel free to contact us using the details below. 

If you do not meet the Early Admission criteria for your original course preference or, in cases where UOW discontinues a course, we may issue an ‘alternative’ offer.   

Alternative offers give you the opportunity to remain in your chosen study area and may provide you with a direct pathway to your original course preference. Alternative offers are made after careful consideration of your application and aligning you with a study program we know you can excel at.  

Some alternative offer courses are delivered by UOW while some are delivered by UOW College (UOWC). Read more about UOWC alternative offers below. 

Some alternative Early Admission offer courses are delivered by UOW College (UOWC).  

UOWC alternative offers are known as packaged offers. Packaged offers are an offer to two courses, where successful completion of the first course in the package allows you to progress to the second course. In most cases, an alternative offer to UOWC will be packaged with your original course preference – you study the first part with UOWC, the second with UOW.  

Starting your studies with UOWC will ensure you have the academic and personal support you need to succeed. You will benefit from the small class sizes which means that you will benefit from individual attention, available staff, and a personal approach. Academic skills development is embedded in UOWC programs, with an emphasis on oral, written and presentation skills, and group work.  

Just like an undergraduate degree, your subjects will have a lecture and tutorial format, or lecture and laboratory format, timetabled over five days; your assessment will be practical tasks, essays, mid-session tests and final exams.  

Students who successfully complete their UOWC course/program will be guaranteed (subject to meeting UOW entry requirements) entry into the first or second year of the UOW course identified in the packaged offer.

At the portal, there is a 'Forgotten Password' prompt, and a 'Forgotten username' prompt. Use these links to reset your credentials.

If this does not help, you will need to contact UAC for support. You will need to verify your identity, so have your student number, UAC PIN and other details with you.

If you applied for an education degree and did not fill out the education-specific questionnaire, you will not be eligible to receive an offer through Early Admission.  

You can however apply for an education degree through UAC and you will be assessed using your ATAR and the education-based questionnaire. We suggest that you lodge a UAC application before the Early Bird closing date of 30 September 2024.

Outcomes for the Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation will also be sent in early October.
Successful applicants will also be advised of the Ramsay Scholarship at the same time.

The applications for the Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation are as well as and separate to the Early Admission application. This means, you could potentially be offered three UOW courses – you’ll need to choose which one you want to enrol in when enrolment opens in December.  

Deferring a course means that you accept the offer of a place, but that you don't plan on starting straight away.     

Yes, you can defer your place at UOW for up to one year.  

You will need a UOW student number before you can apply to defer. This will be sent to you in the weeks after your Early Admission offer. More details on how to defer your offer are available on the UOW Get Started page.  

You cannot defer scholarship or accommodation offers. If you are planning to take a year off before commencing study with UOW, you will need to apply for scholarships and accommodation in the year before you commence study i.e. if you defer your offer until 2026, you will apply for scholarships and accommodation in the latter half of next year.   

No.  

This scholarship has been launched to assist students from high schools in key regional locations to study at UOW in 2025.  

This scholarship is unable to be deferred.

Yes. If you received an offer through Early Admission, but you have decided you would like to study a different course at UOW, you can start a UAC application and list this course as one of the five preferences. You will be assessed for this course based on your results and your ATAR. UAC Early bird applications close on Monday 30 September. Until that date, the application fee is $80.  

Applying through UAC will not affect your Early Admission place. 

If you intend on enrolling in the course to which you have been made an offer to via Early Admission – you do not need to participate in a UAC application. A place is reserved for you in the UOW course(s) you’ve been offered. There’s no need for you to formally accept the offer. You can enrol in your course starting Monday, 2 December 2024.  

If you received an alternative course offer to the one you originally applied for in your Early Admission application, you will be reassessed for your original course when results and ATARs are released in December. There is nothing you need to do for this to happen, and we will be in touch if we’re able to make you an offer to your original preference. 

No.

If you intend on enrolling in the course to which you have been made an offer to via Early Admission – you do not need to participate in a UAC application.  

A place is reserved for you in the UOW course(s) you’ve been offered. There’s no need for you to formally accept the offer. You can enrol in your course starting Monday, 2 December 2024.  

Yes! Many UOW scholarship applications are open until early December.

You can read more about the range of scholarships on offer, how to apply, and any important dates on the Future Student Scholarship page.

Now.   

Applications are open now via the UOW Accommodation website and places are filling fast. You’ll get four preferences for accommodation. The earlier you apply, the more likely you are to get your first accommodation preference, so we recommend applying as soon as possible.

Apply now

Receiving your accommodation offer is another weight off your shoulders. You can focus on your final studies, knowing both your UOW offer, and accommodation are secured – ready for a stress-free 2025.  

In most cases - yes. If you have been offered a course at one of our campuses and now wish to change to another one of our campuses where the course is offered, send an email to future-students@uow.edu.au with the subject line: ‘Campus Change Request’, and include your Early Admission application number.  

Let us know the campus to which you have been made an offer, and the campus you want to transfer to. We will be in touch with advice after we receive your request. In some cases, your application may need to be reassessed because different campuses have different admission requirements.  

Check where your course is offered by using the UOW Course Finder tool.  

The UOW Get Started page will be updated regularly to get you prepared for starting university in 2025, but here’s a few quick points about starting at UOW:  

• Shortly after you receive your Early Admission offers(s), we’ll generate a student number for you, and send it to you after you receive your Early Admission offer. Keep it somewhere safe.    
• Enrolment will open from Monday 2 December. We will send you email reminders closer to this date.  
• Orientation (24 – 27 February 2025) will be a great way to meet your classmates and teachers, join clubs and societies, and get to know your UOW campus.  
• Classes begin Monday 3 March 2025.  
• Check our key dates page to start planning your 2025.  
• Check your inbox! We will regularly communicate with you about what we need you to do. We will contact you via the email you used to apply.  

Orientation week (O-Week) will take place from 24 – 27 February 2025.

O-Week is a great opportunity to get to know the campus and the amazing opportunities that are here for UOW students, both in and out of the classroom.   

Your first class will be Monday 3 March 2025.  

Students who successfully completed the 2024 Year 12 Future Me Program or Summer Master Class program were identified with UOW Admissions to determine eligibility for an offer for a UOW Faculty Degree or UOW College Pathway.* 

*Please refer to the 2024 Year 12 Future Me Program Terms & Conditions for further information on student eligibility for UOW admission. 

Yes! Many UOW scholarship applications are open until early December. You can read more about the range of scholarships on offer, how to apply, and any important dates on the Future student scholarship page.   

UOW’s Student Privacy & Disclosure statement states that information about a student’s application cannot be disclosed to a third party without written and signed consent. 

As part of the Early Admission application, applicants (Year 12 students) were able to enter the details of a person who they authorise to act on their behalf. If they chose to name someone, that person – and that person only – can also be provided with information about the student's application. 

If you are a parent or guardian seeking information regarding your child or young person's application and you are not listed as an authorised person on their Early Admission application, you will need to ensure a consent to release form is completed before we can respond. When completed, the consent form may be sent via email to futurestudents@uow.edu.au.  

Please note, this consent to release form covers students when they are applying for UOW. Once they are enroled, they are considered a current student, and a new updated consent form will be required.  

Our Future Students team are available Monday to Friday from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm by calling 1300 367 869. Our Future Students team are experienced staff; most of whom have who have previously studied at UOW and can share their insights and past experiences.  

You can also email the team at future-students@uow.edu.au.