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Q: What is the difference between undergraduate and graduate-entry medicine in Australia?

Undergraduate medicine in Australia is a 5 to 6-year programme entered directly from year 12 using ATAR + UCAT-ANZ (sometimes with CASPer or Snapshot). Graduate-entry medicine is a 4-year accelerated programme entered after completing a bachelor degree, using GPA + GAMSAT. Both routes lead to the same Doctor of Medicine credential and the same registration pathway.

Q: Which Australian medical schools accept international applicants?

Most Australian medical schools accept international applicants, though the number of full-fee international places varies significantly by school — typically 20 to 50 places per cohort. Sydney MD, Monash, UQ, Melbourne MD and ANU MChD have the largest international intakes. Bonded Medical Place (BMP) and Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) seats are reserved for Australian citizens and permanent residents; international applicants must apply for full-fee places, which cost AUD $65,000-95,000 per year.

Q: Is medicine in Australia easier to get into than the UK?

Slightly. Australian undergraduate medical schools admit roughly 8-12% of applicants on average; UK medical schools admit roughly 8-10%. The difference is competitive depth at the top end: UK applicants must perform well on UCAT against a 25,000-applicant pool concentrated into the September-October window, while AU undergraduate applicants compete by state and have multiple admission factors weighted (ATAR + UCAT-ANZ + interview), which spreads the competitive pressure. Graduate entry is comparably competitive in both countries.

Q: What ATAR do I need for medicine in Australia?

Most Australian undergraduate medical schools set an ATAR threshold of 95.00 or above; the most competitive schools (Adelaide, JCU, Curtin BMP stream) often require 96-99+. UNSW and Monash interview cut-offs typically settle around 96.50. The ATAR is one component — UCAT-ANZ, CASPer/Snapshot (where used) and interview performance also feed into the final ranking. A 99.95 ATAR with a weak UCAT-ANZ will not secure an offer; a 95.00 ATAR with a top UCAT-ANZ and strong interview can.

Q: How long does it take to become a doctor in Australia?

After medical school (5-6 years undergraduate or 4 years graduate), graduates complete a one-year internship (PGY1), then 2-3 years of general training (PGY2-4) before entering a specialty training programme. Specialty training is typically 4-6 years. The full pathway from year 12 to consultant practice is 11-14 years for undergraduate-entry, or 13-15 years if you complete a bachelor degree first.

Q: Should I apply to multiple states?

Yes, applying across states materially increases your chance of an offer. There are no caps on the number of schools you can apply to. Each state has its own admissions cycle (UAC for NSW/ACT, VTAC for VIC, QTAC for QLD, SATAC for SA/NT/WA, TISC for parts of WA) and you apply through the state admissions centre for each. Strong applicants typically apply to schools in 3-4 states to spread the competitive risk.

Q: What is the application timeline?

For undergraduate entry: ATAR sat in late October/November, UCAT-ANZ sat in July, school preferences submitted by late September through your state admissions centre, interviews from November to February, offers from January. For graduate entry: GAMSAT sat in March and/or September, applications submitted to GEMSAS (most schools) by late May, interviews from October to December, offers from December onwards.

Q: What is a Bonded Medical Place (BMP)?

A Bonded Medical Place is a Commonwealth-Supported Place where, in exchange for a heavily subsidised tuition fee, the graduate commits to working in a rural, remote or workforce-shortage area for a defined period — typically 3 years. The bonding obligation is set by the Health Workforce Locator at the time of graduation. BMP places are common at JCU, Curtin, Wollongong and Charles Sturt. They are not penalty contracts — they are workforce policy with significant tuition subsidies attached. See our BMP guide for the full breakdown.

Q: Can I switch from undergraduate to graduate medicine after first year?

No, not directly. Once enrolled in an undergraduate MD, you complete that programme. However, some students transfer between schools within the same pathway (e.g. undergraduate-to-undergraduate at a different university). Switching from undergraduate to graduate would require withdrawing from the undergraduate MD, completing a separate bachelor degree, and then re-applying through the graduate pathway — an extra 4-5 years overall.

Q: How much does Australian medical school cost?

For domestic students with a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP), tuition is approximately AUD $11,800 per year (HECS-HELP indexed). Bonded Medical Place tuition matches CSP. Full-fee places for domestic students are roughly AUD $50,000-72,000 per year, mainly at Bond and Notre Dame. International full-fee places are AUD $65,000-95,000 per year. Living costs add another AUD $25,000-35,000 per year in major Australian cities.

Two distinct routes lead to the same Doctor of Medicine — undergraduate entry from year 12, and graduate entry after a bachelor degree. This guide walks through both: the tests, the timeline, the costs, per-school requirements from our live catalogue, and the reasons strong applicants come up short.

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Your pathway into Australian medicine

Two distinct routes lead to the same Doctor of Medicine — undergraduate entry straight from year 12, and graduate entry after a bachelor degree. Here is exactly how each one works.

Pathway 1

Undergraduate medicine

Undergraduate medicine in Australia is the school-leaver route. You enter directly from year 12 into a 5 or 6-year combined-degree programme that delivers both a bachelor degree (or bachelor-equivalent component) and a Doctor of Medicine. 9 Australian programmes operate under this model, mostly at the Group of Eight (UQ, UNSW, Adelaide, Melbourne) and the rural-focused schools (JCU, Curtin, Charles Sturt, Wollongong).

The standard undergraduate application combines four factors: ATAR (your year-12 academic rank), UCAT-ANZ (the admissions test sat in July), CASPer or Snapshot (used at some schools as a situational judgement layer), and an interview (MMI at most schools, panel at a few). Specific weightings vary — UNSW uses a 1/3 ATAR, 1/3 UCAT, 1/3 interview formula, while Monash blends UCAT, CASPer and ATAR before interview selection.

ATAR thresholds typically sit at 95.00+ for undergraduate medicine, with the most competitive schools (Adelaide, JCU Bonded, Curtin) requiring 96-99+. UCAT-ANZ thresholds shift cycle to cycle — for 2027 entry the competitive band is roughly 2,150-2,400 on the post-2024 /2700 cognitive scale (top quartile, ~75th-90th percentile) across the most selective schools.

One pathway twist: undergraduate medicine has no separate "medicine application". You apply through your state's admissions centre (UAC for NSW/ACT, VTAC for VIC, QTAC for QLD, SATAC for SA/NT/WA, TISC for parts of WA) alongside all your other tertiary preferences. Medicine schools then call eligible applicants for interview directly.

Pathway 2

Graduate-entry medicine

Graduate-entry medicine is the post-degree route. You complete a bachelor degree first (typically in any discipline — humanities and science applicants both succeed) and then apply to a 4-year accelerated MD or MChD. 17 Australian programmes follow this model, including Sydney MD, Melbourne MD, ANU MChD, Notre Dame Sydney/Fremantle, Wollongong, Deakin and Macquarie.

The graduate application combines three factors: GPA (your undergraduate degree grade point average, capped at 7.0 in most states), GAMSAT (the graduate medical school admissions test, sat in March or September each year), and an interview (MMI at most graduate-entry schools, panel at Adelaide and Tasmania graduate streams).

Most graduate-entry schools recruit through GEMSAS (the Graduate Entry Medical School Admissions Service), a centralised application platform that allocates interview offers based on a combined GPA + GAMSAT composite. You list school preferences in order, GEMSAS processes the composite against each school's threshold, and offers cascade by preference rank. Sydney MD, Melbourne MD and ANU MChD operate their own admissions cycles outside GEMSAS.

GPA cut-offs sit around 5.5-6.0 (out of 7.0) for most graduate-entry programmes, with the most competitive schools requiring 6.5+. GAMSAT cut-offs typically range from 60 to 68 overall, with section minima of 50 in every section.

Read our deeper undergraduate vs graduate comparison for a head-to-head on length, cost, maturity and competitive position.

Admissions tests

The four admissions tests in detail

Four tests appear across Australian medical admissions, used in different combinations by different schools:

UCAT-ANZ — undergraduate route. Two-hour psychometric test of verbal reasoning, decision making, quantitative reasoning and situational judgement. Single July sitting. Full UCAT-ANZ guide.
GAMSAT — graduate route. Five-and-a-half-hour reasoning test across humanities, written communication and three sciences. March + September sittings. Full GAMSAT guide.
CASPer — situational judgement (written). 90-minute online test of 12 scenarios with typed responses. Used by Monash, Curtin and a small group. CASPer guide.
Snapshot — situational judgement (video). One-way recorded video responses to short scenarios. Used by Monash undergraduate alongside CASPer. Covered in the CASPer guide above.

For applicants weighing UCAT-ANZ vs GAMSAT — for example graduates considering both undergraduate and graduate streams — see our GAMSAT vs UCAT-ANZ decision guide.

Timeline

The application timeline year by year

Australian medical applications run on a 12-18 month timeline. Below is the standard cadence for 2027 entry.

Undergraduate timeline

Year 11 (or earlier): Begin preparing for ATAR-relevant subjects. Most medical schools require chemistry; many require biology or another science. Begin UCAT-ANZ prep 6-12 months ahead of the test.
Year 12 March-June: Register for UCAT-ANZ. Continue ATAR preparation. Begin building extracurricular evidence of motivation (volunteering, work experience).
Year 12 July: UCAT-ANZ test window (single sitting). Individual scores typically appear on the Pearson VUE candidate portal within 24-48 hours, but the centralised TAC data feed lands in late August / early September after the test window closes.
Year 12 September: State admissions centre preferences open. Submit your list of medical schools alongside other tertiary preferences. CASPer or Snapshot (where required) typically sat in this window.
Year 12 October-November: ATAR end-of-year exams. ATAR released mid-December.
December-February: Interview invitations issued. Most undergraduate interviews run between late November and early February.
January-February: Offers cascade through the state admissions centres. First-round offers in January; final offers by March.

Graduate timeline

18-24 months before entry: Final-year of bachelor degree, GPA locked. Begin GAMSAT preparation 6-12 months before the test (longer for humanities backgrounds).
Year before entry, March: GAMSAT March sitting. Results released late May. Use this as a diagnostic; sit again in September for the decisive score.
Year before entry, May-June: GEMSAS application opens. List school preferences. Submit before the late-May / early-June deadline (varies year to year).
Year before entry, September: GAMSAT September sitting. Results released mid to late November.
October-December: Interview invitations issued. Most graduate-entry interviews run between late October and early December.
December onwards: Offers issued. Some schools rolling, others single-round.

Applying & funding

State admissions centres and CSP / BMP funding

Undergraduate medical applications are routed through your state admissions centre, not directly through the university. Each centre runs its own preference system and deadlines:

UAC (Universities Admissions Centre) — NSW and ACT.
VTAC (Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre) — VIC.
QTAC (Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre) — QLD.
SATAC (South Australian Tertiary Admissions Centre) — SA, NT and (for some institutions) WA.
TISC (Tertiary Institutions Service Centre) — WA (for UWA and other WA-based programmes).

Each medical place in Australia is funded under one of three models: Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) — heavily subsidised tuition (~AUD $11,800/year) for Australian citizens and permanent residents; Bonded Medical Place (BMP) — same CSP tuition in exchange for a workforce commitment to a rural, remote or shortage area; Full-fee place — domestic or international, AUD $50,000-95,000 per year. Read our CSP vs BMP vs full-fee comparison for the funding implications of each.

Every school

Requirements at a glance (2027 entry)

24 programmes across 9 undergraduate and 17 graduate-entry streams. Live data from our school catalogue — figures update when the underlying entry requirements change.

Adelaide
State
SA
Pathway
undergraduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum entry ATAR 90.00 (adjusted selection rank). Adelaide states that 'the actual ATAR required for entry is typically much higher' than the 90.00 eligibility floor but 'does not disclose ATAR cut-off scores from previous years'. Its published ATAR profile for Semester 1 2026 (ABP171 and ABP271) suppresses every figure as '<5', because almost all offers are made on ATAR plus additional criteria rather than ATAR alone — so no median, lowest or guaranteed selection rank exists in the public record, and figures such as 99.75 are unsourced. Adelaide explicitly does not publish ATAR cut-offs.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
UCAT ANZ alone decides who is interviewed (except Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway and Northern Community Care Stream applicants, who do not sit it): Sections 1–3 carry equal weight, and Section 4 (Situational Judgement, reported separately on 300–900 and not part of the /2700 cognitive total) separates only lower-ranked candidates with equal totals across the other three. UCAT ANZ then carries 20% of the final domestic offer ranking, alongside Interview 40% and Academic 40%. Adelaide publishes no cut-off and will not comment on score competitiveness; the South Australian advantage is structural — a minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations must go to South Australian applicants — not a published score gap. For national calibration only (not an Adelaide threshold), the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting used for 2027 entry had a total cognitive mean of 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340 across 17,341 candidates.
Intake
Adelaide does not publish a total place count, though it publishes sub-pathway reservations (approximately 41 Rural Background, up to 20 Northern Community Care Stream, minimum 10 Higher Education). Its official student profile shows 160 students commencing in Semester 1 2026 (28 international, 17.5%; 96 admitted on ATAR plus additional criteria; 33 through the Higher Education pathway). Approximately 600 domestic and 160 international applicants are invited to interview each cycle. Domestic offer weighting: Academic 40% + UCAT ANZ 20% + Interview 40%.
ANU
State
ACT
Pathway
graduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum weighted GPA 5.0 to be considered for interview — ANU states plainly that meeting it "does not guarantee an interview". The GPA is a 3-year weighted calculation over 3.0 FTE of the most recent eligible degree: final year x3, final-1 x2, final-2 x1. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants have a lower published minimum weighted GPA of 4.5. The only published interview GUARANTEE is for INTERNATIONAL applicants: weighted GPA 6.0 plus GAMSAT 60 overall (50+ per section) or MCAT 515 (125+ per section). ANU publishes no 5.6 threshold and no median offer-holder GPA.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Minimum Overall 50 AND minimum 50 in each section to be considered for interview; meeting the minimum does not guarantee an interview. ANU accepts GAMSAT results as valid for four years. Used at 50% weight in the interview-ranking composite alongside the standardised weighted GPA (50%), with a higher-degree research bonus applied to the combined score (standalone Honours 2%, Masters by Research 2%, PhD 4%; highest only). ANU publishes no median or cut-off GAMSAT for offer-holders. International applicants have a published interview guarantee at GAMSAT 60 overall with 50+ per section (or MCAT 515 with 125+ per section) alongside weighted GPA 6.0.
Intake
2027 entry: 63 CSP + 26 BMP (89 domestic) + up to 30 international full-fee, plus uncapped Indigenous places offered in addition to that cap — so up to roughly 119, plus Indigenous entrants. Note that approximately 40 of the available places are reserved for students who came through an ANU undergraduate pathway (ANU's BHLTH page: "Up to 40 domestic students from the BHLTH will receive an offer to the MChD program each year"), so materially fewer than 89 domestic places are contested through GEMSAS.
Bond
State
QLD
Pathway
dual
ATAR / GPA
Undergraduate (Year 12): minimum competitive academic rank OP 1-3 / ATAR 96+ / IB Dip 38+ — Bond frames this as the bar to be competitive for psychometric-test selection, not a guaranteed offer. Graduate: cumulative GPA greater than 6.0 on a 7-point scale, converted to an academic rank by QTAC. For the 2025 intake Bond published a cut-off academic rank of 96.75 (undergraduate) and 98.50 (graduate); Bond states the final cut-off depends on the strength of each applicant pool and does not say whether that rank is the threshold to progress or the final entry rank.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
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Intake
Up to 180-200 domestic places a year across two intakes (May + September) — Bond's entry-requirements page says "up to 180 domestic places" while its FAQ says "up to 200". About 80% undergraduate / 20% graduate. Full-fee only, no CSP, does NOT participate in BMP. Bond's 2026 programme guide sets out the funnel: approximately 900 applicants invited to psychometric testing, of whom approximately 400 are shortlisted for interview.
CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program
State
NT
Pathway
undergraduate
ATAR / GPA
Competitive at 90 or above; 85 or above for First Nations applicants. CDU frames these as competitive levels, not a published floor.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Contributes 10% of the admission rank; no cut-off published.
Intake
12 places a year (5 NT resident, 5 NT First Nations, 2 national First Nations).
Charles Darwin University
State
NT
Pathway
undergraduate
ATAR / GPA
85 or above after adjustment factors (recent school leavers).
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
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Intake
40 Commonwealth Supported Places; 160 candidates interviewed.
Charles Sturt (Rural)
State
NSW
Pathway
undergraduate
ATAR / GPA
ATAR hurdle (2027 entry, CSU standalone): 95.50 non-rural; 91.50 via the Rural Entry Admissions Scheme. There is no Greater Western Sydney tier at Charles Sturt — the 93.50 Western Sydney resident hurdle belongs to Western Sydney University's own course (UAC 725505). The ATAR is a minimum to be met, not the ranking instrument; UCAT ANZ (25%) and the MMI (75%) do the ranking. Equivalents: IB 38 (non-rural) / 35 (rural); completed undergraduate degree GPA 5.5 (non-rural) / 4.9 (rural).
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
UCAT ANZ alone produces the ranked list that determines interview invitations, and it then carries 25 per cent of CSU's published final selection criteria against 75 per cent for the MMI. ATAR is a hurdle, not the ranking device. CSU states the required UCAT level 'will vary each year, determined by the performance of all applicants competing for a place in the... course and will not be disclosed', so no cut-off can be quoted. Sit UCAT ANZ in the same calendar year you apply; scores are valid for that year only. For scale, the UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) had a mean total cognitive score of 1,964/2700, an 8th decile of 2,220 and a 9th decile of 2,340.
Intake
47 Commonwealth Supported Places a year from 2026, after an extra 10 CSPs were allocated (implying about 37 previously, though CSU does not state that figure). For scale, the inaugural CSU cohort that started in 2021 was 38 students. CSU does not publish a rural/non-rural split of places — its published 80 per cent rural floor applies to interviews — and no CSU, UAC, AMC or Medical Deans source publishes a combined JPM intake figure.
Curtin
State
WA
Pathway
undergraduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum ATAR 95.00 for every school-leaver applicant, WA and interstate alike — Curtin publishes one figure with no domicile split, and adjustment points are added on top of it rather than included in it. The 92.00 figure is the minimum notional ATAR for the non-school-leaver (graduate) pathway only; Curtin course switchers are assessed on a course weighted average of 80 instead. Rural or StepUp adjustment points (up to 5, from one scheme only) apply on top, capped at an adjusted 99.95. TISC 2026 Admission Ranks (Main Round, December 2025) for CUMBS: minimum rank for consideration n/a, lowest selection rank offered n/a — selection is NOT solely on ATAR.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
No official Curtin-published cut-off. Curtin ranks total UCAT score, not a fixed threshold. Curtin publishes no UCAT-ANZ cut-off, minimum or competitive band in any year — the 2027 guide contains no quartile, decile or percentile figure. Note the scale change: UCAT-ANZ dropped Abstract Reasoning at the UCAT ANZ 2025 sitting (2026 entry), so the cognitive total is now out of 2700, not 3600, and Curtin's 2027 guide ranks on the "UCAT ANZ score (out of 2700)". Any figure in the 2900-3000 range comes from the retired /3600 scale and exceeds the current maximum, so it is neither achievable nor comparable. For orientation only, the official all-candidate UCAT ANZ 2026 statistics (the sitting that feeds 2027 entry) show a mean cognitive total of 1,964, a 3rd quartile of 2,170 and a 9th decile of 2,340 — national figures for every test-taker, not a Curtin applicant profile. Interview shortlist ratio 35 ATAR : 35 Casper : 30 UCAT-ANZ, per Curtin's own guide.. Interview shortlist ratio 35 ATAR : 35 CASPer : 30 UCAT (per MedEntry / Curtin official Q&A — Fraser's 35:35:40 reporting is an error).
Intake
2027 intake: approximately 110 domestic places (CSP, inclusive of Bonded Medical Places), plus 10-15 international full-fee places. Curtin 2027 Domestic and International Admissions Guides.
Deakin
State
VIC
Pathway
graduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum 5.0/7.0 weighted. GEMSAS weighting (Final-2 × 1 + Final-1 × 2 + Final × 3) / 6; each GPA year must contain at least 0.25 FTE of graded results and 2020 calendar-year results are excluded. The degree must have been awarded within 10 years of the projected commencement date; applicants outside that window may still be considered if they complete the equivalent of 0.5 FTE of AQF Level 8 or higher study, finished by 31 July in the year of application. This currency rule does not apply to RTS Tier 1 applicants. Minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0 over the most recent three FTE years, progressively weighted x1, x2, x3. A GPA year must contain at least 0.25 FTE of graded results, and 2020 calendar-year results are excluded from the calculation. Deakin publishes the average GPA of its commencing cohort, not a cut-off: 6.72 for the 2026 intake and 6.68 for the 2025 intake (Deakin course page).
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Minimum 50 in each section + 50 overall. Minimum 50 in each of the three GAMSAT sections and 50 overall, obtained within four years preceding the year of application. Deakin publishes the average GAMSAT of its commencing cohort, not a cut-off: 65.9 for the 2026 intake and 66.39 for the 2025 intake (Deakin course page). These are cohort averages, not thresholds — Deakin publishes no competitive or guaranteed score. General-stream interview shortlist: GPA + GAMSAT + adjustments, equally weighted. General-stream interview shortlist: GPA + GAMSAT + adjustments equally weighted.
Intake
2027: ~160 total (up to 100 CSP + 45 BMP + 15 international + 30 RTS reserved subset). Maximum 220 interview offers; implied interview-to-place ratio ≈ 1.6:1 (GEMSAS Medical Schools Admission Guide, Deakin entry, 2027 intake).
Flinders
State
SA
Pathway
dual
ATAR / GPA
Minimum Flinders-equivalent non-weighted GPA of 5.00 from the most recent Bachelor degree to be ELIGIBLE to apply (2027 Domestic Application Guide). Flinders does not publish the GPA profile of successful applicants, so no 'typical' figure should be quoted. Note the eligibility GPA is not the figure used for ranking: once you pass the interview, Flinders recalculates a WEIGHTED GPA over your last three full-time-equivalent years, with the final year counted triple and the year before it double ((Yr3 x 3 + Yr2 x 2 + Yr1) / 6); applicants still completing their degree at the end of 2026 are weighted over the last 2.5 FTE years using first-semester final-year results. Postgraduate qualifications (Graduate Certificates, Graduate Diplomas, Masters, PhDs) are excluded from the wGPA and from the selection rank entirely.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Minimum 50 in each section (a hurdle, not a competitive score). Flinders publishes the realised cut-offs on the MD course page: for 2027 entry the overall GAMSAT score cut-offs to be INVITED TO INTERVIEW were Rural Bedford Park 61, Humanitarian Visa Holders 60, Flinders Graduate 64, Flinders Graduate Reserved 64, and Non-Flinders Graduates/Non-Rural/Non-Humanitarian 76. SARM and NTMP cut-offs are not published because selection there is also priority-based. These are interview cut-offs, not offer cut-offs; Flinders notes they are 'based on the main round of interview offers' and will be updated if further interview offers are made, and that they 'are dependent upon the profile of the applicant pool and places available for each sub-quota, and therefore vary every year'. The overall GAMSAT score is calculated as ((1 x Section I) + (1 x Section II) + (2 x Section III)) / 4.
Intake
Flinders does not publish a single total MD intake figure; the intake is assembled from Bedford Park (Flinders Graduates max 75%, Non-Flinders Graduates min 25%, Rural min 28% of SA places, up to 5 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander places, up to 4 Humanitarian Visa places), SARM up to 60 for 2027 entry (30 Mount Gambier, 30 Riverland), NTMP up to 24 Employer Reserved fee-paying places, plus a separate international intake. Indicative annual MD fees published for 2026 entry: AUD $13,558 Commonwealth Supported (domestic — the same student contribution whether the place is Bonded or Non-Bonded) and AUD $91,200 full-fee international; 2027 fees are not yet published. Separately, on the 6-year direct-entry Bachelor of Clinical Sciences / Doctor of Medicine (a different course, 2026 fees $9,537 CSP / $52,300 international), Flinders' published profile shows 73 students commencing in Semester 1 2026 — 35 domestic recent-secondary and 38 international.
Griffith
State
QLD
Pathway
graduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum 5.0/7.0. Griffith explicitly states "a GPA required for interview selection is likely to be significantly higher than 5.0". Minimum eligibility is an unweighted GEMSAS-schema GPA of 5.0/7.0. Griffith does not publish an intake average — it publishes the median GPA for a GUMSAA interview invitation: 6.831 (2024 intake), 6.792 (2025 intake), 6.729 (2026 intake).
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Minimum 50 in each section AND 50 overall. Interview shortlist rank: 50:50 unweighted GPA (as %) + overall GAMSAT (out of 100). Final offer rank: 50% interview-selection rank + 50% GUMSAA interview score. Minimum GAMSAT 50 in each section (Griffith MD 5099 page), with GEMSAS additionally requiring an overall score of at least 50; scores must be no more than four years old at the time of application. Griffith does not publish an intake average — it publishes the median GAMSAT for a GUMSAA interview invitation, which was 69 for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 intakes. GEMSAS: 'there is no discrete cut-off point for GAMSAT.
Intake
2027 cycle: 208 domestic places (148 CSP + 60 BMP), of which about 80 are reserved for Griffith and UniSC Bachelor of Medical Science pathway students, plus up to 35 international — up to ~243 in total. Griffith interviews around 200 candidates at GUMSAA for approximately 110-120 places.
JCU
State
QLD
Pathway
undergraduate
ATAR / GPA
JCU publishes no ATAR threshold — 'JCU does not have set ATAR thresholds for entry to Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Science courses'. Published entry-score range for Semester 1 2026 entry, covering recent secondary students offered a place: Townsville highest 99.95 / median 97.90 / lowest 84.15; Cairns highest 99.95 / median 97.65 / lowest 88.00 — identical with and without adjustments, because no adjustment factors apply to Medicine. JCU notes the table includes deferred offers that may have been assessed against an earlier year's threshold, and that meeting a threshold does not guarantee admission; these are historical lowest-offer figures, not a cut-off to aim at. Non-school-leavers need a minimum unweighted GPA of 5.75/7 for tertiary results to be assessed — JCU explicitly calls this 'not a threshold or benchmark'. Earlier figures in this entry belong to a superseded cycle.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
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Intake
2027 entry: approximately 170 domestic places across Townsville and Cairns combined (JCU's figure; approximately 180 for 2026 entry and approximately 170 for 2025), plus approximately 35 international places in Townsville and 5 in Cairns. Domestic places are Commonwealth Supported; nationally 28.5% of commencing medical CSPs must be Bonded Medical Program places, and JCU reserves a small number of places under the QTAC Rural Access Scheme (NOT 100% MRBS — MRBS is a closed legacy scheme nationally).
Macquarie
State
NSW
Pathway
graduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum 5.0/7.0 (or WAM 65). Minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0, or WAM 65, to be considered for interview; weighted 50% for the shortlist and 50% again for the offer. GEMSAS notes only that "entry is competitive and a GPA required for interview selection is likely to be significantly higher than 5.0 out of 7.0" — neither Macquarie nor GEMSAS publishes interviewee or offer-holder GPAs.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Minimum 50 overall, 50 in each section. Used at 50% weight (alongside 50% GPA) for interview shortlist. Minimum 50 overall and 50 in each of the three sections, sat within four years of intended enrolment. Weighted at 50% (alongside 50% weighted GPA) for the interview shortlist only — GAMSAT carries no weight at the offer stage. Macquarie publishes no GAMSAT data for interviewees or offer-holders, stating only that "entry is competitive" and that scores of candidates selected for interview "are likely to be significantly higher than the minimum entry requirements".
Intake
2027: ~60 full-fee domestic + ~20 international. No CSP/BMP at Macquarie (full-fee program; no Commonwealth-mandated bonded allocation).
Melbourne
State
VIC
Pathway
graduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0. UoM weighting formula: (Final-2 × 1 + Final-1 × 2 + Final × 2) / 5. A completed PhD — not a Masters — can earn re-ranking in the applicant's favour: it must be in a health-related or biological sciences discipline and completed within 10 years of MD commencement. UoM publishes a quota of up to 10 places for applicants re-ranked on this basis, but states the Selection Committee is not required to fill it and that any unused places are allocated as normal; its current Selection Guidelines add that re-ranking is decided case-by-case each year and that the detail is not disclosed to applicants.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Minimum 50 in each of the three sections. Ranking formula uses GAMSAT at 25% post-interview (MMI 50%, GPA 25%, GAMSAT 25%). Pre-interview shortlisting weights GPA and GAMSAT equally (50/50). UoM does not publish accepted or cut-off GAMSAT scores for any cycle, and because it ranks on the three sections weighted equally rather than on ACER's overall score, an 'average accepted GAMSAT' is not a figure its process produces. No Tier-1 source confirms one.
Intake
2027 cycle (indicative): 179 CSP + 71 BMP (39 via GEMSAS + 32 via MD Rural Pathway) + up to 105 full-fee places shared between domestic and international applicants ≈ ~355 total (GEMSAS 2027 UoM entry). UoM's own 2027-intake Admissions Guide gives the same total, split 295 domestic / 60 international, and labels all quotas a guide only and subject to change. No earlier-cycle intake figures are published by UoM or GEMSAS in a form this entry can cite.
Monash
State
VIC
Pathway
dual
ATAR / GPA
Direct Entry minimum eligibility ATAR 90. Monash publishes lowest-offer ATARs rather than a competitive cut-off: for 2026 entry the lowest ATAR to receive an offer was 96.10 (standard School Leaver Entry), 95.05 (CSP Extended Rural Cohort) and 91.25 (CSP Bonded School Leaver Entry). Monash notes these are the lowest ATAR BEFORE equity-scheme/Dean's Rural List adjustment, while ranking itself uses the adjusted ATAR. No median and no guaranteed ATAR is published.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Domestic Direct Entry only (international applicants sit ISAT). Monash publishes its December-round interview cut-offs. On the current three-subtest /2700 scale, 2026 entry cleared at 2380 (94th percentile, 192 interview offers) for Victorian-based non-DRL applicants and 2050 (66th percentile, 193 offers) for Dean's Rural List applicants. The 2027-entry cut-offs are not yet published - invitations are scheduled for release on 12 and 14 October 2026. Earlier cycles sat on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale (2025 entry 3140 non-DRL / 2730 DRL; 2024 entry 3020 / 2670; 2023 entry 2990 / 2620) and are NOT convertible: UCAT-ANZ dropped Abstract Reasoning from the test sat in 2025 (first used for 2026 entry), so no ratio conversion between the scales is valid. Situational Judgement is banded separately and is used only to break ties on equal cognitive totals.
Intake
Direct Entry (Clayton): approximately 234 domestic places, inclusive of 30 Extended Rural Cohort and approximately 67 Bonded Medical Program places. Graduate Entry (Churchill/Gippsland): approximately 72 domestic places, inclusive of 35 End-to-End Rural places. Roughly 306 domestic places across both pathways; Monash does not publish international intake numbers.
Newcastle / JMP
State
NSW
Pathway
undergraduate
ATAR / GPA
ATAR hurdle: 94.30 standard; 85.00 under the Rural Bonus Scheme, which turns on the Modified Monash MM2-7 location of the high school where you sat Year 12, not where you live. Applicants with at least one full-time year of university study are assessed on their tertiary results instead (UAC describes the bar as results averaging close to credit level; the JMP Admission and Selection Policy states a UAC (ATAR-based) Rank of 88.40 or better). Once the hurdle is met, academic results no longer rank at all: UCAT ANZ alone decides who is invited, and the final selection rank comes from assessment-day performance, with UCAT used only to sub-rank ties.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
No published cut-off: once the ATAR hurdle is met, invitation to the JMP Assessment is decided on the UCAT ANZ aggregate of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning alone, with no minimum on any individual subtest. The JMP states the cut-off is not set until after direct applications close because it depends on the applicant cohort that year, and that separate, lower thresholds apply to rural (RRAS), Communities Entry List and UoN Biomedical Science Pathway applicants. It does not publish past cut-offs, and no lowest-UCAT-to-interview figure is published by the university, UAC or UCAT ANZ. For scale, UCAT ANZ 2026 (2027 entry) had a mean total of 1,964 and a 9th decile of 2,340 out of 2,700.
Intake
170 places a year across the JMP (UoN + UNE combined) for more than 3,000 applicants. The JMP publishes no BMP count of its own; the national 28.5% rule for commencing medical CSPs would imply roughly 48. International places sit outside the 170.
Notre Dame Fremantle
State
WA
Pathway
graduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum weighted GPA 5.2/7.0 as calculated by GEMSAS over the three most recent FTE years, progressively weighted final-minus-2 x1, final-minus-1 x2, final x3. Notre Dame's published average GPA of applicants OFFERED AN INTERVIEW at Fremantle and Broome: 6.58 (2024 intake), 6.66 (2025 intake), 6.60 (2026 intake), excluding applicants assessed on rurality or facilitated-interview criteria. These are interview-offer averages, not thresholds — interview selection also weighs Casper and bonus points. No 'competitive' GPA threshold is published.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Minimum 52 overall + 50 in each subsection (UNDA averages the three sections rather than using the overall weighted GAMSAT). Notre Dame publishes the average GAMSAT of applicants OFFERED AN INTERVIEW (not of successful entrants), for Fremantle and Broome combined: 64.65 (2024 intake), 66.10 (2025 intake), 65.50 (2026 intake); Broome is included only from the 2026 intake. These exclude applicants considered on additional criteria including rurality and facilitated-interview eligibility. They are descriptive averages, not cut-offs: Notre Dame states that interview selection also weighs Casper and bonus points, and that place offers additionally take the interview score into account. The published hard minimum remains an unweighted GAMSAT average of 52 with at least 50 in every subsection.
Intake
2027 cycle ~127 total: 80 CSP (60 Fremantle + 20 KCRMT Broome) + 32 BMP + up to 15 international + uncapped Indigenous. For context, the GEMSAS guides put Notre Dame Fremantle at CSP 71 + BMP 29 = 100 places for both 2023 and 2024 entry, and the 2027 guide gives CSP 80 (Fremantle 60, KCRMT Broome 20), BMP 32 and up to 15 full-fee international. The 2026-entry figures are not published on any current Tier-1 source, so no year-on-year delta should be stated. KCRMT Broome has been taking students since the 2025 intake, so the 2027 numbers are not a Broome-driven step change.
Notre Dame Sydney
State
NSW
Pathway
graduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum weighted GPA of 5.2/7.0 over three FTE years, with GPA years progressively weighted Final-minus-2 x1, Final-minus-1 x2, Final x3. Notre Dame publishes the average GPA of applicants OFFERED AN INTERVIEW at Sydney: 6.68 (2024 entry), 6.76 (2025 entry), 6.74 (2026 entry). These are shortlist averages, not thresholds, and UNDA states they exclude applicants considered on additional criteria including rurality and facilitated interview pathway eligibility. No official source supports a ~6.3 'competitive target' or any 2023 figure.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Minimum total of 52 with at least 50 in each subsection; UNDA uses the unweighted average of the three GAMSAT sections, not the overall weighted score. Notre Dame publishes the average GAMSAT of applicants OFFERED AN INTERVIEW at Sydney: 67.84 (2024 entry), 68.08 (2025 entry), 68.23 (2026 entry). These are interview-shortlist averages, not the scores of applicants who received a place, and UNDA states they exclude applicants considered on additional criteria including rurality and facilitated interview pathway eligibility. No cut-off is published.
Intake
2027 cycle: 40 CSP + 17 BMP + up to 57 full-fee domestic (via GEMSAS) + up to 35 full-fee international (direct to UNDA) — at most about 149 places. GEMSAS states the numbers are subject to change and that the quota includes the assured and priority pathways (GEMSAS Medical Schools Admission Guide, Notre Dame Sydney).
Sydney
State
NSW
Pathway
dual
ATAR / GPA
Minimum 5.0/7.0 weighted GPA (4.5 for rural applicants). GPA functions as a hurdle only — a 5.1 and 7.0 rank equally once above the floor.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Hard minimum 50 in each of the three sections (USyd MD Admissions Guide); Minimum 50 in each of the three GAMSAT sections (Reasoning in Humanities and Social Sciences; Written Communication; Reasoning in Biology and Physical Sciences - the S1/S2/S3 numbering was retired in 2024). Ranking uses individual section scores; overall and average GAMSAT scores are explicitly not used. Sydney may weight sections but does not publish the weighting or the order of priority, states that past threshold scores 'will not be published or provided', and 'does not disclose the ranking of applicants' GAMSAT scores'. Under the Indigenous and rural facilitated entry schemes Sydney 'may make offers to applicants with scores that are below the cut-off for standard admission'. No offer-holder GAMSAT figure is published, and no overall-score median can exist because Sydney never computes an overall score for ranking. Only results from the past 2 years accepted.
Intake
~300 students per year in total (not 300 domestic plus internationals). For 2027 entry Sydney publishes anticipated offers of 141 Metropolitan CSP + 66 Metropolitan Bonded Medical Program + 24 Dubbo CSP = 231 domestic (all marked TBC), which already includes approximately 30 offers reserved for progressing Double Degree Medicine students, plus up to 70 full-fee international places in the Metropolitan stream. Sydney admits no domestic full-fee students, and the Dubbo places are CSP-only.
Tasmania
State
TAS
Pathway
dual
ATAR / GPA
Domestic: minimum adjusted ATAR 95 — explicitly the minimum needed for an application to be considered, not a guarantee of an offer (UTAS: "achieving the minimum entry requirements does not guarantee an offer of a place"). International: minimum ATAR or equivalent rank 90. UTAS publishes no competitive cut-off, median or lowest-offer ATAR for this course, and no ATAR/selection-rank or student profile is published for it on CourseSeeker.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
No published domestic cut-off — UCAT-ANZ only separates applicants who share an ATAR, so there is no threshold to quote. UTAS sums the three cognitive subtests only (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning); Situational Judgement is excluded. International applicants must reach the 50th percentile or above: on the official UCAT ANZ 2026 distribution — the sitting used for 2027 entry — the 5th decile (median) total was 1,950/2700 (mean 1,964; 9th decile 2,340; 17,341 candidates).
Intake
UTAS does not publish a total intake for the BMedScMD, and no ATAR/selection-rank or student profile is published for the course on CourseSeeker. What is published: 20 Tasmanian Rural Training Stream places at Cradle Coast, 29 first-year students announced for Launceston from February 2026, at least 75% of domestic places reserved for Tasmanians, 50% for MM2-7 rural applicants (25% from MM3-7), and approximately 30% of domestic students enrolled into the Bonded Medical Program.
UNSW
State
NSW
Pathway
undergraduate
ATAR / GPA
Minimum eligibility ATAR 96.00 without EAS adjustment (General and international); 91.00 without adjustment for the Rural Entry Admission Pathway and the Gateway Entry Scheme. For 2026 entry UNSW published a lowest ATAR to which an offer was made of 99.75 (local General), 94.25 (Gateway, via a Gateway Early Conditional Offer) and 91.05 (Rural) - defined as the lowest ATAR before adjustment factors, not a threshold. UNSW publishes no interview-shortlist ATAR. It does publish a whole-programme ATAR Profile (highest, median and lowest ATAR and Selection Rank), but that is a past-intake cohort profile spanning all entry schemes and is not an entry cut-off.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
UNSW publishes a hard minimum: UCAT ANZ 50th percentile or above for General, Gateway, Lateral and international entry, and 40th percentile or above for the Rural Entry Admission Pathway. It publishes no competitive cut-off. On the current /2700 three-subtest scale the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting (used for 2027 entry) had a median total cognitive score of 1,950 and a 9th decile of 2,340, so on the national distribution the 50th-percentile gate maps to roughly 1,950 for that sitting - our derivation, not a UNSW figure, and it moves with each cohort. Interview shortlisting uses selection rank and UCAT ANZ total cognitive score only; Situational Judgement is reported as a separate scaled score (300-900) and is not part of the cognitive total.
Intake
The AMC's February 2024 UNSW accreditation report records a government-set quota of 198 domestic commencing students and a Faculty-agreed quota of 100 international students, with about 90% of the commencing cohort school leavers; UNSW has not published an updated figure since. UNSW does not publish a current-cycle CSP/BMP/international split; 28.5% of Commonwealth Supported Places are Bonded Medical Program places.
UQ
State
QLD
Pathway
dual
ATAR / GPA
Adjusted ATAR 95 (or equivalent) is the published MINIMUM for both school-leaver routes — provisional entry (QTAC 721302 / 721402) and the 6-year BMedSc/MD dual (QTAC 721502) — and meeting it guarantees nothing. Actual Semester 1 2026 provisional-entry offer profile (latest published cycle), non-bonded: highest 99.95, median 99.65, lowest 95.00 excluding adjustments (99.95 / 99.95 / 98.10 including adjustments). Bonded: highest 99.95, median 99.20, lowest 93.25 excluding adjustments (99.95 / 99.95 / 97.25 including adjustments).
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Required for Provisional Entry (school-leaver) and for the new 6-year BMedSc/MD direct-entry dual; must be sat in the year you apply. Latest published figures are for the 2026 intake: the lowest UCAT ANZ score invited to interview was 2290/2700 for applicants not eligible for the Rural Background Sub-Quota and 1960/2700 for those who were. No 2027-entry threshold has been published, and UQ has said it is reviewing how the recent UCAT ANZ format change affects interview selection. Shortlisting is on the UCAT ANZ aggregate, subject to a minimum 50% of domestic MMI invitees being Queensland Year 12 students. The final offer rank is a combined score of ATAR, MMI total and UCAT ANZ aggregate — UQ and QTAC publish no weightings.
Intake
2027 graduate intake: 107 CSP + 43 BMP + up to 190 international = up to 340 across the GEMSAS graduate route for 2027 entry (Graduate CSP 107, Graduate BMP 43, International 190 including UQ-Ochsner; GEMSAS notes these are indicative and subject to annual variation). UQ separately publishes approximately 275 domestic places and approximately 100 international places across the provisional and graduate pathways each year; 28% of domestic places go to the Rural Background Student Sub-Quota.
UWA
State
WA
Pathway
dual
ATAR / GPA
Direct Pathway: HAA / Broadway / Rural streams require ATAR 98 minimum; Indigenous school-leaver pathway minimum ATAR 90, with the School of Indigenous Studies (or askUWA) as first contact. The Boola Boola Djinda / CAMDH route is the GRADUATE Indigenous pathway and uses no ATAR at all. TISC publishes no rank data for UG056 (Doctor of Medicine via Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) Assured Pathway) — both the minimum rank for consideration and the lowest selection rank offered are listed as n/a, because selection is not rank-only. The separate standalone Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) (UP056) ran 92.00 minimum / 96.65 lowest selection rank (2024 admission), 92.00 / 97.50 (2025) and 95.00 / 97.70 (2026).
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Required only for the domestic Assured Pathway (High Academic Achiever, Rural and Broadway quotas), and it must be sat in the year of application — a score cannot be carried over. UWA publishes no threshold: 'There is no set minimum score requirement; the UCAT ANZ threshold is set by ranking within each quota each year. Minimum results from previous years are not published.' Ranking uses the cognitive total only — the sum of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, scored 900-2700 — while Situational Judgement is reported separately (300-900) and UWA 'reserves the right' to use it in future. Figures on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale are not comparable and cannot be ratio-converted to /2700. International school leavers sit ISAT, not UCAT-ANZ.
Intake
2027 cycle: 206 domestic places plus about 40 international. Up to 50% go to school-leaver (Assured Pathway) entrants and the remainder to graduate entry, for which GEMSAS lists up to 103 domestic places. Note: gradready reports ~103 domestic and Fraser's reports 143 — discrepancy likely reflects different counting bases (graduate-only vs combined Direct + Graduate). Direct Pathway via UP056 Bachelor of Biomedicine TISC ranks 96.65 (2024) → 97.50 (2025).
Western Sydney
State
NSW
Pathway
undergraduate
ATAR / GPA
Academic threshold, assessed only after the MMI: non-Greater Western Sydney applicants 95.50 (this band, not a lower one, catches interstate and regional applicants who are not REAS-eligible); Greater Western Sydney applicants 93.50, on a multi-year residence test against WSU's published list of GWS areas; Rural Entry Admission Scheme 91.50, requiring ASGS-RA 2-5 residence for five consecutive or ten cumulative years since age five; international applicants 93.50 ATAR-equivalent. Once met, ATAR no longer influences ranking — the offer is 75% interview / 25% UCAT-ANZ.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
No published cut-off. WSU states the threshold "is not made public to applicants since it is determined each year according to the performance of all other applicants for the program" (FAQ), and that it "is not determined by your overall UCAT ANZ score; individual sections may be subject to weighting" (General Applicants); GWS applicants may face a lower threshold than non-GWS applicants. UCAT-ANZ performance alone decides who is invited to interview; it is then weighted at 25% of the final offer ranking alongside 75% interview. UCAT-ANZ must be sat in the application year. For scale only — these are whole-cohort figures for every UCAT-ANZ candidate, not WSU applicants and not a WSU threshold — the official UCAT-ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) on the current three-subtest /2700 cognitive scale had mean 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340. Situational Judgement is reported separately and is not part of the /2700 total.
Intake
~120 places total per year (CSP + BMP + ~20 international); specific split not published by WSU (WSU MD Enrolment Places page).
Wollongong
State
NSW
Pathway
graduate
ATAR / GPA
Accurate as far as it goes, but two published conditions are missing: offers to applicants finishing a degree in 2026 are "conditional on maintenance of the minimum required weighted GPA of 5.5", and qualifying degrees used in the GPA calculation "must be completed by 23 December 2026". There is also a ten-year currency-of-qualification rule that can render an applicant ineligible for both interview and place.
UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT
Minimum 50 overall, no section below 50. Minimum 50 overall with no individual section score below 50. For 2027 entry GAMSAT is a pure qualifying hurdle: "GAMSAT score will not be used in ranking for interview or place offers once the hurdle has been met." International applicants may substitute MCAT (495 overall, no section below 123).
Intake
2027 cycle: 37 Unbonded CSP + 30 CSP Rural End-to-End + 27 BMP + 15 International = ~109 total (GEMSAS UOW).

School	State	Pathway	ATAR / GPA	UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT	Intake
Adelaide	SA	undergraduate	Minimum entry ATAR 90.00 (adjusted selection rank). Adelaide states that 'the actual ATAR required for entry is typically much higher' than the 90.00 eligibility floor but 'does not disclose ATAR cut-off scores from previous years'. Its published ATAR profile for Semester 1 2026 (ABP171 and ABP271) suppresses every figure as '<5', because almost all offers are made on ATAR plus additional criteria rather than ATAR alone — so no median, lowest or guaranteed selection rank exists in the public record, and figures such as 99.75 are unsourced. Adelaide explicitly does not publish ATAR cut-offs.	UCAT ANZ alone decides who is interviewed (except Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway and Northern Community Care Stream applicants, who do not sit it): Sections 1–3 carry equal weight, and Section 4 (Situational Judgement, reported separately on 300–900 and not part of the /2700 cognitive total) separates only lower-ranked candidates with equal totals across the other three. UCAT ANZ then carries 20% of the final domestic offer ranking, alongside Interview 40% and Academic 40%. Adelaide publishes no cut-off and will not comment on score competitiveness; the South Australian advantage is structural — a minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations must go to South Australian applicants — not a published score gap. For national calibration only (not an Adelaide threshold), the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting used for 2027 entry had a total cognitive mean of 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340 across 17,341 candidates.	Adelaide does not publish a total place count, though it publishes sub-pathway reservations (approximately 41 Rural Background, up to 20 Northern Community Care Stream, minimum 10 Higher Education). Its official student profile shows 160 students commencing in Semester 1 2026 (28 international, 17.5%; 96 admitted on ATAR plus additional criteria; 33 through the Higher Education pathway). Approximately 600 domestic and 160 international applicants are invited to interview each cycle. Domestic offer weighting: Academic 40% + UCAT ANZ 20% + Interview 40%.
ANU	ACT	graduate	Minimum weighted GPA 5.0 to be considered for interview — ANU states plainly that meeting it "does not guarantee an interview". The GPA is a 3-year weighted calculation over 3.0 FTE of the most recent eligible degree: final year x3, final-1 x2, final-2 x1. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants have a lower published minimum weighted GPA of 4.5. The only published interview GUARANTEE is for INTERNATIONAL applicants: weighted GPA 6.0 plus GAMSAT 60 overall (50+ per section) or MCAT 515 (125+ per section). ANU publishes no 5.6 threshold and no median offer-holder GPA.	Minimum Overall 50 AND minimum 50 in each section to be considered for interview; meeting the minimum does not guarantee an interview. ANU accepts GAMSAT results as valid for four years. Used at 50% weight in the interview-ranking composite alongside the standardised weighted GPA (50%), with a higher-degree research bonus applied to the combined score (standalone Honours 2%, Masters by Research 2%, PhD 4%; highest only). ANU publishes no median or cut-off GAMSAT for offer-holders. International applicants have a published interview guarantee at GAMSAT 60 overall with 50+ per section (or MCAT 515 with 125+ per section) alongside weighted GPA 6.0.	2027 entry: 63 CSP + 26 BMP (89 domestic) + up to 30 international full-fee, plus uncapped Indigenous places offered in addition to that cap — so up to roughly 119, plus Indigenous entrants. Note that approximately 40 of the available places are reserved for students who came through an ANU undergraduate pathway (ANU's BHLTH page: "Up to 40 domestic students from the BHLTH will receive an offer to the MChD program each year"), so materially fewer than 89 domestic places are contested through GEMSAS.
Bond	QLD	dual	Undergraduate (Year 12): minimum competitive academic rank OP 1-3 / ATAR 96+ / IB Dip 38+ — Bond frames this as the bar to be competitive for psychometric-test selection, not a guaranteed offer. Graduate: cumulative GPA greater than 6.0 on a 7-point scale, converted to an academic rank by QTAC. For the 2025 intake Bond published a cut-off academic rank of 96.75 (undergraduate) and 98.50 (graduate); Bond states the final cut-off depends on the strength of each applicant pool and does not say whether that rank is the threshold to progress or the final entry rank.	—	Up to 180-200 domestic places a year across two intakes (May + September) — Bond's entry-requirements page says "up to 180 domestic places" while its FAQ says "up to 200". About 80% undergraduate / 20% graduate. Full-fee only, no CSP, does NOT participate in BMP. Bond's 2026 programme guide sets out the funnel: approximately 900 applicants invited to psychometric testing, of whom approximately 400 are shortlisted for interview.
CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program	NT	undergraduate	Competitive at 90 or above; 85 or above for First Nations applicants. CDU frames these as competitive levels, not a published floor.	Contributes 10% of the admission rank; no cut-off published.	12 places a year (5 NT resident, 5 NT First Nations, 2 national First Nations).
Charles Darwin University	NT	undergraduate	85 or above after adjustment factors (recent school leavers).	—	40 Commonwealth Supported Places; 160 candidates interviewed.
Charles Sturt (Rural)	NSW	undergraduate	ATAR hurdle (2027 entry, CSU standalone): 95.50 non-rural; 91.50 via the Rural Entry Admissions Scheme. There is no Greater Western Sydney tier at Charles Sturt — the 93.50 Western Sydney resident hurdle belongs to Western Sydney University's own course (UAC 725505). The ATAR is a minimum to be met, not the ranking instrument; UCAT ANZ (25%) and the MMI (75%) do the ranking. Equivalents: IB 38 (non-rural) / 35 (rural); completed undergraduate degree GPA 5.5 (non-rural) / 4.9 (rural).	UCAT ANZ alone produces the ranked list that determines interview invitations, and it then carries 25 per cent of CSU's published final selection criteria against 75 per cent for the MMI. ATAR is a hurdle, not the ranking device. CSU states the required UCAT level 'will vary each year, determined by the performance of all applicants competing for a place in the... course and will not be disclosed', so no cut-off can be quoted. Sit UCAT ANZ in the same calendar year you apply; scores are valid for that year only. For scale, the UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) had a mean total cognitive score of 1,964/2700, an 8th decile of 2,220 and a 9th decile of 2,340.	47 Commonwealth Supported Places a year from 2026, after an extra 10 CSPs were allocated (implying about 37 previously, though CSU does not state that figure). For scale, the inaugural CSU cohort that started in 2021 was 38 students. CSU does not publish a rural/non-rural split of places — its published 80 per cent rural floor applies to interviews — and no CSU, UAC, AMC or Medical Deans source publishes a combined JPM intake figure.
Curtin	WA	undergraduate	Minimum ATAR 95.00 for every school-leaver applicant, WA and interstate alike — Curtin publishes one figure with no domicile split, and adjustment points are added on top of it rather than included in it. The 92.00 figure is the minimum notional ATAR for the non-school-leaver (graduate) pathway only; Curtin course switchers are assessed on a course weighted average of 80 instead. Rural or StepUp adjustment points (up to 5, from one scheme only) apply on top, capped at an adjusted 99.95. TISC 2026 Admission Ranks (Main Round, December 2025) for CUMBS: minimum rank for consideration n/a, lowest selection rank offered n/a — selection is NOT solely on ATAR.	No official Curtin-published cut-off. Curtin ranks total UCAT score, not a fixed threshold. Curtin publishes no UCAT-ANZ cut-off, minimum or competitive band in any year — the 2027 guide contains no quartile, decile or percentile figure. Note the scale change: UCAT-ANZ dropped Abstract Reasoning at the UCAT ANZ 2025 sitting (2026 entry), so the cognitive total is now out of 2700, not 3600, and Curtin's 2027 guide ranks on the "UCAT ANZ score (out of 2700)". Any figure in the 2900-3000 range comes from the retired /3600 scale and exceeds the current maximum, so it is neither achievable nor comparable. For orientation only, the official all-candidate UCAT ANZ 2026 statistics (the sitting that feeds 2027 entry) show a mean cognitive total of 1,964, a 3rd quartile of 2,170 and a 9th decile of 2,340 — national figures for every test-taker, not a Curtin applicant profile. Interview shortlist ratio 35 ATAR : 35 Casper : 30 UCAT-ANZ, per Curtin's own guide.. Interview shortlist ratio 35 ATAR : 35 CASPer : 30 UCAT (per MedEntry / Curtin official Q&A — Fraser's 35:35:40 reporting is an error).	2027 intake: approximately 110 domestic places (CSP, inclusive of Bonded Medical Places), plus 10-15 international full-fee places. Curtin 2027 Domestic and International Admissions Guides.
Deakin	VIC	graduate	Minimum 5.0/7.0 weighted. GEMSAS weighting (Final-2 × 1 + Final-1 × 2 + Final × 3) / 6; each GPA year must contain at least 0.25 FTE of graded results and 2020 calendar-year results are excluded. The degree must have been awarded within 10 years of the projected commencement date; applicants outside that window may still be considered if they complete the equivalent of 0.5 FTE of AQF Level 8 or higher study, finished by 31 July in the year of application. This currency rule does not apply to RTS Tier 1 applicants. Minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0 over the most recent three FTE years, progressively weighted x1, x2, x3. A GPA year must contain at least 0.25 FTE of graded results, and 2020 calendar-year results are excluded from the calculation. Deakin publishes the average GPA of its commencing cohort, not a cut-off: 6.72 for the 2026 intake and 6.68 for the 2025 intake (Deakin course page).	Minimum 50 in each section + 50 overall. Minimum 50 in each of the three GAMSAT sections and 50 overall, obtained within four years preceding the year of application. Deakin publishes the average GAMSAT of its commencing cohort, not a cut-off: 65.9 for the 2026 intake and 66.39 for the 2025 intake (Deakin course page). These are cohort averages, not thresholds — Deakin publishes no competitive or guaranteed score. General-stream interview shortlist: GPA + GAMSAT + adjustments, equally weighted. General-stream interview shortlist: GPA + GAMSAT + adjustments equally weighted.	2027: ~160 total (up to 100 CSP + 45 BMP + 15 international + 30 RTS reserved subset). Maximum 220 interview offers; implied interview-to-place ratio ≈ 1.6:1 (GEMSAS Medical Schools Admission Guide, Deakin entry, 2027 intake).
Flinders	SA	dual	Minimum Flinders-equivalent non-weighted GPA of 5.00 from the most recent Bachelor degree to be ELIGIBLE to apply (2027 Domestic Application Guide). Flinders does not publish the GPA profile of successful applicants, so no 'typical' figure should be quoted. Note the eligibility GPA is not the figure used for ranking: once you pass the interview, Flinders recalculates a WEIGHTED GPA over your last three full-time-equivalent years, with the final year counted triple and the year before it double ((Yr3 x 3 + Yr2 x 2 + Yr1) / 6); applicants still completing their degree at the end of 2026 are weighted over the last 2.5 FTE years using first-semester final-year results. Postgraduate qualifications (Graduate Certificates, Graduate Diplomas, Masters, PhDs) are excluded from the wGPA and from the selection rank entirely.	Minimum 50 in each section (a hurdle, not a competitive score). Flinders publishes the realised cut-offs on the MD course page: for 2027 entry the overall GAMSAT score cut-offs to be INVITED TO INTERVIEW were Rural Bedford Park 61, Humanitarian Visa Holders 60, Flinders Graduate 64, Flinders Graduate Reserved 64, and Non-Flinders Graduates/Non-Rural/Non-Humanitarian 76. SARM and NTMP cut-offs are not published because selection there is also priority-based. These are interview cut-offs, not offer cut-offs; Flinders notes they are 'based on the main round of interview offers' and will be updated if further interview offers are made, and that they 'are dependent upon the profile of the applicant pool and places available for each sub-quota, and therefore vary every year'. The overall GAMSAT score is calculated as ((1 x Section I) + (1 x Section II) + (2 x Section III)) / 4.	Flinders does not publish a single total MD intake figure; the intake is assembled from Bedford Park (Flinders Graduates max 75%, Non-Flinders Graduates min 25%, Rural min 28% of SA places, up to 5 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander places, up to 4 Humanitarian Visa places), SARM up to 60 for 2027 entry (30 Mount Gambier, 30 Riverland), NTMP up to 24 Employer Reserved fee-paying places, plus a separate international intake. Indicative annual MD fees published for 2026 entry: AUD $13,558 Commonwealth Supported (domestic — the same student contribution whether the place is Bonded or Non-Bonded) and AUD $91,200 full-fee international; 2027 fees are not yet published. Separately, on the 6-year direct-entry Bachelor of Clinical Sciences / Doctor of Medicine (a different course, 2026 fees $9,537 CSP / $52,300 international), Flinders' published profile shows 73 students commencing in Semester 1 2026 — 35 domestic recent-secondary and 38 international.
Griffith	QLD	graduate	Minimum 5.0/7.0. Griffith explicitly states "a GPA required for interview selection is likely to be significantly higher than 5.0". Minimum eligibility is an unweighted GEMSAS-schema GPA of 5.0/7.0. Griffith does not publish an intake average — it publishes the median GPA for a GUMSAA interview invitation: 6.831 (2024 intake), 6.792 (2025 intake), 6.729 (2026 intake).	Minimum 50 in each section AND 50 overall. Interview shortlist rank: 50:50 unweighted GPA (as %) + overall GAMSAT (out of 100). Final offer rank: 50% interview-selection rank + 50% GUMSAA interview score. Minimum GAMSAT 50 in each section (Griffith MD 5099 page), with GEMSAS additionally requiring an overall score of at least 50; scores must be no more than four years old at the time of application. Griffith does not publish an intake average — it publishes the median GAMSAT for a GUMSAA interview invitation, which was 69 for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 intakes. GEMSAS: 'there is no discrete cut-off point for GAMSAT.	2027 cycle: 208 domestic places (148 CSP + 60 BMP), of which about 80 are reserved for Griffith and UniSC Bachelor of Medical Science pathway students, plus up to 35 international — up to ~243 in total. Griffith interviews around 200 candidates at GUMSAA for approximately 110-120 places.
JCU	QLD	undergraduate	JCU publishes no ATAR threshold — 'JCU does not have set ATAR thresholds for entry to Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Science courses'. Published entry-score range for Semester 1 2026 entry, covering recent secondary students offered a place: Townsville highest 99.95 / median 97.90 / lowest 84.15; Cairns highest 99.95 / median 97.65 / lowest 88.00 — identical with and without adjustments, because no adjustment factors apply to Medicine. JCU notes the table includes deferred offers that may have been assessed against an earlier year's threshold, and that meeting a threshold does not guarantee admission; these are historical lowest-offer figures, not a cut-off to aim at. Non-school-leavers need a minimum unweighted GPA of 5.75/7 for tertiary results to be assessed — JCU explicitly calls this 'not a threshold or benchmark'. Earlier figures in this entry belong to a superseded cycle.	—	2027 entry: approximately 170 domestic places across Townsville and Cairns combined (JCU's figure; approximately 180 for 2026 entry and approximately 170 for 2025), plus approximately 35 international places in Townsville and 5 in Cairns. Domestic places are Commonwealth Supported; nationally 28.5% of commencing medical CSPs must be Bonded Medical Program places, and JCU reserves a small number of places under the QTAC Rural Access Scheme (NOT 100% MRBS — MRBS is a closed legacy scheme nationally).
Macquarie	NSW	graduate	Minimum 5.0/7.0 (or WAM 65). Minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0, or WAM 65, to be considered for interview; weighted 50% for the shortlist and 50% again for the offer. GEMSAS notes only that "entry is competitive and a GPA required for interview selection is likely to be significantly higher than 5.0 out of 7.0" — neither Macquarie nor GEMSAS publishes interviewee or offer-holder GPAs.	Minimum 50 overall, 50 in each section. Used at 50% weight (alongside 50% GPA) for interview shortlist. Minimum 50 overall and 50 in each of the three sections, sat within four years of intended enrolment. Weighted at 50% (alongside 50% weighted GPA) for the interview shortlist only — GAMSAT carries no weight at the offer stage. Macquarie publishes no GAMSAT data for interviewees or offer-holders, stating only that "entry is competitive" and that scores of candidates selected for interview "are likely to be significantly higher than the minimum entry requirements".	2027: ~60 full-fee domestic + ~20 international. No CSP/BMP at Macquarie (full-fee program; no Commonwealth-mandated bonded allocation).
Melbourne	VIC	graduate	Minimum weighted GPA 5.0/7.0. UoM weighting formula: (Final-2 × 1 + Final-1 × 2 + Final × 2) / 5. A completed PhD — not a Masters — can earn re-ranking in the applicant's favour: it must be in a health-related or biological sciences discipline and completed within 10 years of MD commencement. UoM publishes a quota of up to 10 places for applicants re-ranked on this basis, but states the Selection Committee is not required to fill it and that any unused places are allocated as normal; its current Selection Guidelines add that re-ranking is decided case-by-case each year and that the detail is not disclosed to applicants.	Minimum 50 in each of the three sections. Ranking formula uses GAMSAT at 25% post-interview (MMI 50%, GPA 25%, GAMSAT 25%). Pre-interview shortlisting weights GPA and GAMSAT equally (50/50). UoM does not publish accepted or cut-off GAMSAT scores for any cycle, and because it ranks on the three sections weighted equally rather than on ACER's overall score, an 'average accepted GAMSAT' is not a figure its process produces. No Tier-1 source confirms one.	2027 cycle (indicative): 179 CSP + 71 BMP (39 via GEMSAS + 32 via MD Rural Pathway) + up to 105 full-fee places shared between domestic and international applicants ≈ ~355 total (GEMSAS 2027 UoM entry). UoM's own 2027-intake Admissions Guide gives the same total, split 295 domestic / 60 international, and labels all quotas a guide only and subject to change. No earlier-cycle intake figures are published by UoM or GEMSAS in a form this entry can cite.
Monash	VIC	dual	Direct Entry minimum eligibility ATAR 90. Monash publishes lowest-offer ATARs rather than a competitive cut-off: for 2026 entry the lowest ATAR to receive an offer was 96.10 (standard School Leaver Entry), 95.05 (CSP Extended Rural Cohort) and 91.25 (CSP Bonded School Leaver Entry). Monash notes these are the lowest ATAR BEFORE equity-scheme/Dean's Rural List adjustment, while ranking itself uses the adjusted ATAR. No median and no guaranteed ATAR is published.	Domestic Direct Entry only (international applicants sit ISAT). Monash publishes its December-round interview cut-offs. On the current three-subtest /2700 scale, 2026 entry cleared at 2380 (94th percentile, 192 interview offers) for Victorian-based non-DRL applicants and 2050 (66th percentile, 193 offers) for Dean's Rural List applicants. The 2027-entry cut-offs are not yet published - invitations are scheduled for release on 12 and 14 October 2026. Earlier cycles sat on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale (2025 entry 3140 non-DRL / 2730 DRL; 2024 entry 3020 / 2670; 2023 entry 2990 / 2620) and are NOT convertible: UCAT-ANZ dropped Abstract Reasoning from the test sat in 2025 (first used for 2026 entry), so no ratio conversion between the scales is valid. Situational Judgement is banded separately and is used only to break ties on equal cognitive totals.	Direct Entry (Clayton): approximately 234 domestic places, inclusive of 30 Extended Rural Cohort and approximately 67 Bonded Medical Program places. Graduate Entry (Churchill/Gippsland): approximately 72 domestic places, inclusive of 35 End-to-End Rural places. Roughly 306 domestic places across both pathways; Monash does not publish international intake numbers.
Newcastle / JMP	NSW	undergraduate	ATAR hurdle: 94.30 standard; 85.00 under the Rural Bonus Scheme, which turns on the Modified Monash MM2-7 location of the high school where you sat Year 12, not where you live. Applicants with at least one full-time year of university study are assessed on their tertiary results instead (UAC describes the bar as results averaging close to credit level; the JMP Admission and Selection Policy states a UAC (ATAR-based) Rank of 88.40 or better). Once the hurdle is met, academic results no longer rank at all: UCAT ANZ alone decides who is invited, and the final selection rank comes from assessment-day performance, with UCAT used only to sub-rank ties.	No published cut-off: once the ATAR hurdle is met, invitation to the JMP Assessment is decided on the UCAT ANZ aggregate of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning alone, with no minimum on any individual subtest. The JMP states the cut-off is not set until after direct applications close because it depends on the applicant cohort that year, and that separate, lower thresholds apply to rural (RRAS), Communities Entry List and UoN Biomedical Science Pathway applicants. It does not publish past cut-offs, and no lowest-UCAT-to-interview figure is published by the university, UAC or UCAT ANZ. For scale, UCAT ANZ 2026 (2027 entry) had a mean total of 1,964 and a 9th decile of 2,340 out of 2,700.	170 places a year across the JMP (UoN + UNE combined) for more than 3,000 applicants. The JMP publishes no BMP count of its own; the national 28.5% rule for commencing medical CSPs would imply roughly 48. International places sit outside the 170.
Notre Dame Fremantle	WA	graduate	Minimum weighted GPA 5.2/7.0 as calculated by GEMSAS over the three most recent FTE years, progressively weighted final-minus-2 x1, final-minus-1 x2, final x3. Notre Dame's published average GPA of applicants OFFERED AN INTERVIEW at Fremantle and Broome: 6.58 (2024 intake), 6.66 (2025 intake), 6.60 (2026 intake), excluding applicants assessed on rurality or facilitated-interview criteria. These are interview-offer averages, not thresholds — interview selection also weighs Casper and bonus points. No 'competitive' GPA threshold is published.	Minimum 52 overall + 50 in each subsection (UNDA averages the three sections rather than using the overall weighted GAMSAT). Notre Dame publishes the average GAMSAT of applicants OFFERED AN INTERVIEW (not of successful entrants), for Fremantle and Broome combined: 64.65 (2024 intake), 66.10 (2025 intake), 65.50 (2026 intake); Broome is included only from the 2026 intake. These exclude applicants considered on additional criteria including rurality and facilitated-interview eligibility. They are descriptive averages, not cut-offs: Notre Dame states that interview selection also weighs Casper and bonus points, and that place offers additionally take the interview score into account. The published hard minimum remains an unweighted GAMSAT average of 52 with at least 50 in every subsection.	2027 cycle ~127 total: 80 CSP (60 Fremantle + 20 KCRMT Broome) + 32 BMP + up to 15 international + uncapped Indigenous. For context, the GEMSAS guides put Notre Dame Fremantle at CSP 71 + BMP 29 = 100 places for both 2023 and 2024 entry, and the 2027 guide gives CSP 80 (Fremantle 60, KCRMT Broome 20), BMP 32 and up to 15 full-fee international. The 2026-entry figures are not published on any current Tier-1 source, so no year-on-year delta should be stated. KCRMT Broome has been taking students since the 2025 intake, so the 2027 numbers are not a Broome-driven step change.
Notre Dame Sydney	NSW	graduate	Minimum weighted GPA of 5.2/7.0 over three FTE years, with GPA years progressively weighted Final-minus-2 x1, Final-minus-1 x2, Final x3. Notre Dame publishes the average GPA of applicants OFFERED AN INTERVIEW at Sydney: 6.68 (2024 entry), 6.76 (2025 entry), 6.74 (2026 entry). These are shortlist averages, not thresholds, and UNDA states they exclude applicants considered on additional criteria including rurality and facilitated interview pathway eligibility. No official source supports a ~6.3 'competitive target' or any 2023 figure.	Minimum total of 52 with at least 50 in each subsection; UNDA uses the unweighted average of the three GAMSAT sections, not the overall weighted score. Notre Dame publishes the average GAMSAT of applicants OFFERED AN INTERVIEW at Sydney: 67.84 (2024 entry), 68.08 (2025 entry), 68.23 (2026 entry). These are interview-shortlist averages, not the scores of applicants who received a place, and UNDA states they exclude applicants considered on additional criteria including rurality and facilitated interview pathway eligibility. No cut-off is published.	2027 cycle: 40 CSP + 17 BMP + up to 57 full-fee domestic (via GEMSAS) + up to 35 full-fee international (direct to UNDA) — at most about 149 places. GEMSAS states the numbers are subject to change and that the quota includes the assured and priority pathways (GEMSAS Medical Schools Admission Guide, Notre Dame Sydney).
Sydney	NSW	dual	Minimum 5.0/7.0 weighted GPA (4.5 for rural applicants). GPA functions as a hurdle only — a 5.1 and 7.0 rank equally once above the floor.	Hard minimum 50 in each of the three sections (USyd MD Admissions Guide); Minimum 50 in each of the three GAMSAT sections (Reasoning in Humanities and Social Sciences; Written Communication; Reasoning in Biology and Physical Sciences - the S1/S2/S3 numbering was retired in 2024). Ranking uses individual section scores; overall and average GAMSAT scores are explicitly not used. Sydney may weight sections but does not publish the weighting or the order of priority, states that past threshold scores 'will not be published or provided', and 'does not disclose the ranking of applicants' GAMSAT scores'. Under the Indigenous and rural facilitated entry schemes Sydney 'may make offers to applicants with scores that are below the cut-off for standard admission'. No offer-holder GAMSAT figure is published, and no overall-score median can exist because Sydney never computes an overall score for ranking. Only results from the past 2 years accepted.	~300 students per year in total (not 300 domestic plus internationals). For 2027 entry Sydney publishes anticipated offers of 141 Metropolitan CSP + 66 Metropolitan Bonded Medical Program + 24 Dubbo CSP = 231 domestic (all marked TBC), which already includes approximately 30 offers reserved for progressing Double Degree Medicine students, plus up to 70 full-fee international places in the Metropolitan stream. Sydney admits no domestic full-fee students, and the Dubbo places are CSP-only.
Tasmania	TAS	dual	Domestic: minimum adjusted ATAR 95 — explicitly the minimum needed for an application to be considered, not a guarantee of an offer (UTAS: "achieving the minimum entry requirements does not guarantee an offer of a place"). International: minimum ATAR or equivalent rank 90. UTAS publishes no competitive cut-off, median or lowest-offer ATAR for this course, and no ATAR/selection-rank or student profile is published for it on CourseSeeker.	No published domestic cut-off — UCAT-ANZ only separates applicants who share an ATAR, so there is no threshold to quote. UTAS sums the three cognitive subtests only (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning); Situational Judgement is excluded. International applicants must reach the 50th percentile or above: on the official UCAT ANZ 2026 distribution — the sitting used for 2027 entry — the 5th decile (median) total was 1,950/2700 (mean 1,964; 9th decile 2,340; 17,341 candidates).	UTAS does not publish a total intake for the BMedScMD, and no ATAR/selection-rank or student profile is published for the course on CourseSeeker. What is published: 20 Tasmanian Rural Training Stream places at Cradle Coast, 29 first-year students announced for Launceston from February 2026, at least 75% of domestic places reserved for Tasmanians, 50% for MM2-7 rural applicants (25% from MM3-7), and approximately 30% of domestic students enrolled into the Bonded Medical Program.
UNSW	NSW	undergraduate	Minimum eligibility ATAR 96.00 without EAS adjustment (General and international); 91.00 without adjustment for the Rural Entry Admission Pathway and the Gateway Entry Scheme. For 2026 entry UNSW published a lowest ATAR to which an offer was made of 99.75 (local General), 94.25 (Gateway, via a Gateway Early Conditional Offer) and 91.05 (Rural) - defined as the lowest ATAR before adjustment factors, not a threshold. UNSW publishes no interview-shortlist ATAR. It does publish a whole-programme ATAR Profile (highest, median and lowest ATAR and Selection Rank), but that is a past-intake cohort profile spanning all entry schemes and is not an entry cut-off.	UNSW publishes a hard minimum: UCAT ANZ 50th percentile or above for General, Gateway, Lateral and international entry, and 40th percentile or above for the Rural Entry Admission Pathway. It publishes no competitive cut-off. On the current /2700 three-subtest scale the official UCAT ANZ 2026 sitting (used for 2027 entry) had a median total cognitive score of 1,950 and a 9th decile of 2,340, so on the national distribution the 50th-percentile gate maps to roughly 1,950 for that sitting - our derivation, not a UNSW figure, and it moves with each cohort. Interview shortlisting uses selection rank and UCAT ANZ total cognitive score only; Situational Judgement is reported as a separate scaled score (300-900) and is not part of the cognitive total.	The AMC's February 2024 UNSW accreditation report records a government-set quota of 198 domestic commencing students and a Faculty-agreed quota of 100 international students, with about 90% of the commencing cohort school leavers; UNSW has not published an updated figure since. UNSW does not publish a current-cycle CSP/BMP/international split; 28.5% of Commonwealth Supported Places are Bonded Medical Program places.
UQ	QLD	dual	Adjusted ATAR 95 (or equivalent) is the published MINIMUM for both school-leaver routes — provisional entry (QTAC 721302 / 721402) and the 6-year BMedSc/MD dual (QTAC 721502) — and meeting it guarantees nothing. Actual Semester 1 2026 provisional-entry offer profile (latest published cycle), non-bonded: highest 99.95, median 99.65, lowest 95.00 excluding adjustments (99.95 / 99.95 / 98.10 including adjustments). Bonded: highest 99.95, median 99.20, lowest 93.25 excluding adjustments (99.95 / 99.95 / 97.25 including adjustments).	Required for Provisional Entry (school-leaver) and for the new 6-year BMedSc/MD direct-entry dual; must be sat in the year you apply. Latest published figures are for the 2026 intake: the lowest UCAT ANZ score invited to interview was 2290/2700 for applicants not eligible for the Rural Background Sub-Quota and 1960/2700 for those who were. No 2027-entry threshold has been published, and UQ has said it is reviewing how the recent UCAT ANZ format change affects interview selection. Shortlisting is on the UCAT ANZ aggregate, subject to a minimum 50% of domestic MMI invitees being Queensland Year 12 students. The final offer rank is a combined score of ATAR, MMI total and UCAT ANZ aggregate — UQ and QTAC publish no weightings.	2027 graduate intake: 107 CSP + 43 BMP + up to 190 international = up to 340 across the GEMSAS graduate route for 2027 entry (Graduate CSP 107, Graduate BMP 43, International 190 including UQ-Ochsner; GEMSAS notes these are indicative and subject to annual variation). UQ separately publishes approximately 275 domestic places and approximately 100 international places across the provisional and graduate pathways each year; 28% of domestic places go to the Rural Background Student Sub-Quota.
UWA	WA	dual	Direct Pathway: HAA / Broadway / Rural streams require ATAR 98 minimum; Indigenous school-leaver pathway minimum ATAR 90, with the School of Indigenous Studies (or askUWA) as first contact. The Boola Boola Djinda / CAMDH route is the GRADUATE Indigenous pathway and uses no ATAR at all. TISC publishes no rank data for UG056 (Doctor of Medicine via Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) Assured Pathway) — both the minimum rank for consideration and the lowest selection rank offered are listed as n/a, because selection is not rank-only. The separate standalone Bachelor of Biomedicine (Specialised) (UP056) ran 92.00 minimum / 96.65 lowest selection rank (2024 admission), 92.00 / 97.50 (2025) and 95.00 / 97.70 (2026).	Required only for the domestic Assured Pathway (High Academic Achiever, Rural and Broadway quotas), and it must be sat in the year of application — a score cannot be carried over. UWA publishes no threshold: 'There is no set minimum score requirement; the UCAT ANZ threshold is set by ranking within each quota each year. Minimum results from previous years are not published.' Ranking uses the cognitive total only — the sum of Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making and Quantitative Reasoning, scored 900-2700 — while Situational Judgement is reported separately (300-900) and UWA 'reserves the right' to use it in future. Figures on the retired /3600 four-subtest scale are not comparable and cannot be ratio-converted to /2700. International school leavers sit ISAT, not UCAT-ANZ.	2027 cycle: 206 domestic places plus about 40 international. Up to 50% go to school-leaver (Assured Pathway) entrants and the remainder to graduate entry, for which GEMSAS lists up to 103 domestic places. Note: gradready reports ~103 domestic and Fraser's reports 143 — discrepancy likely reflects different counting bases (graduate-only vs combined Direct + Graduate). Direct Pathway via UP056 Bachelor of Biomedicine TISC ranks 96.65 (2024) → 97.50 (2025).
Western Sydney	NSW	undergraduate	Academic threshold, assessed only after the MMI: non-Greater Western Sydney applicants 95.50 (this band, not a lower one, catches interstate and regional applicants who are not REAS-eligible); Greater Western Sydney applicants 93.50, on a multi-year residence test against WSU's published list of GWS areas; Rural Entry Admission Scheme 91.50, requiring ASGS-RA 2-5 residence for five consecutive or ten cumulative years since age five; international applicants 93.50 ATAR-equivalent. Once met, ATAR no longer influences ranking — the offer is 75% interview / 25% UCAT-ANZ.	No published cut-off. WSU states the threshold "is not made public to applicants since it is determined each year according to the performance of all other applicants for the program" (FAQ), and that it "is not determined by your overall UCAT ANZ score; individual sections may be subject to weighting" (General Applicants); GWS applicants may face a lower threshold than non-GWS applicants. UCAT-ANZ performance alone decides who is invited to interview; it is then weighted at 25% of the final offer ranking alongside 75% interview. UCAT-ANZ must be sat in the application year. For scale only — these are whole-cohort figures for every UCAT-ANZ candidate, not WSU applicants and not a WSU threshold — the official UCAT-ANZ 2026 sitting (2027 entry, 17,341 candidates) on the current three-subtest /2700 cognitive scale had mean 1,964, median 1,950, 8th decile 2,220 and 9th decile 2,340. Situational Judgement is reported separately and is not part of the /2700 total.	~120 places total per year (CSP + BMP + ~20 international); specific split not published by WSU (WSU MD Enrolment Places page).
Wollongong	NSW	graduate	Accurate as far as it goes, but two published conditions are missing: offers to applicants finishing a degree in 2026 are "conditional on maintenance of the minimum required weighted GPA of 5.5", and qualifying degrees used in the GPA calculation "must be completed by 23 December 2026". There is also a ten-year currency-of-qualification rule that can render an applicant ineligible for both interview and place.	Minimum 50 overall, no section below 50. Minimum 50 overall with no individual section score below 50. For 2027 entry GAMSAT is a pure qualifying hurdle: "GAMSAT score will not be used in ranking for interview or place offers once the hurdle has been met." International applicants may substitute MCAT (495 overall, no section below 123).	2027 cycle: 37 Unbonded CSP + 30 CSP Rural End-to-End + 27 BMP + 15 International = ~109 total (GEMSAS UOW).

Watch out

Common pitfalls

The recurring reasons strong Australian applicants come up short.

Applying to too few schools

A common error in the AU undergraduate cycle — listing only your top three preferences leaves no fallback if interview ranking is fractional points below the cut-off at your top picks. List 6-8 schools across 3-4 states to spread risk. There's no cost to over-listing.

Treating UCAT-ANZ and GAMSAT as interchangeable

They aren't. UCAT-ANZ rewards speed and pattern recognition; GAMSAT rewards depth, writing and applied science. Applicants who switch tests mid-cycle without recalibrating prep are usually under-prepared on the actual test taken.

Under-prepping the interview

A common pitfall, particularly for academically dominant applicants who've never had to perform under verbal pressure. Six to eight weeks of structured interview prep — including AU-specific topics like Closing the Gap, VAD and Medicare — is the standard. See our AU interview prep guide.

Misreading the BMP commitment

Bonded Medical Place is a workforce policy, not a penalty contract. Misreading it as 'forced rural work' usually means missing easy school options (JCU, Curtin, Charles Sturt) with strong training programmes and supportive bonding terms.

Ignoring state-based preference effects

Several AU schools weight applications from their own state significantly. Sydney MD, Adelaide and UWA each have state-residency advantages worth investigating before locking your preference list.

Letting a weak ATAR or GPA prevent applying

Border-line ATAR / GPA candidates often self-deselect prematurely. Adjustment factors, alternative streams (Indigenous Access, Rural Access) and competitive UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT performance can absolutely bridge a sub-95 ATAR or sub-5.5 GPA. Run the numbers before deciding not to apply.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions