Australian Medical Schools - GAMSAT, UCAT-ANZ, ATAR & MMI Guides
Browse every Australian medical school. See GAMSAT and UCAT-ANZ cut-offs, ATAR thresholds, MMI formats, CSP / BMP place counts and Indigenous pathways - tier-4 data for every program.
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Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide delivers South Australia's flagship 6-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medical Studies + Doctor of Medicine (BMS/MD), anchored at the North Terrace campus and Royal Adelaide Hospital with rural placements across Whyalla, Port Lincoln, and Mount Gambier. From January 2026, Adelaide merges with UniSA to form "Adelaide University".
ANU
Canberra
ANU runs a research-intensive 4-year graduate Doctor of Medicine and Surgery (MChD), based at Canberra Hospital. The Rural Clinical School footprint is wide, covering Goulburn, Cooma, Bega, and Eurobodalla. It stands out for mandatory research integration and for ANU's broader research culture.
Bond
Gold Coast
Bond runs Australia's only private medical program. It is an accelerated Bachelor of Medical Studies + Doctor of Medicine, taking about 4.5 years on a three-semester calendar at the Robina campus. Three things set it apart. There are two intakes a year, in May and September. Fees are full-fee with no BMP places. Selection uses a Bond-specific psychometric process.
Charles Sturt (Rural)
Orange
The CSU/WSU School of Rural Medicine runs a 5-year undergraduate MD at the Orange and Bathurst campuses. It trains doctors who will spend their careers working in rural NSW.
Curtin
Bentley
Curtin's 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) trains doctors for outer-metropolitan Perth, rural Western Australia, and Indigenous communities, with placements anchored at Royal Perth, Midland, and the Rural Clinical School (Northam, Esperance, Kalgoorlie). Pre-interview ratio 35:35:30 ATAR:CASPer:UCAT; final offer ranking 40:40:20 ATAR:Interview:UCAT.
Deakin
Geelong
Deakin runs a 4-year graduate-entry MD that trains doctors for regional Victoria. Placements are anchored at Barwon Health in Geelong, and extend across Warrnambool, Ballarat, and the Western District. It stands out for a year-long Rural Community Clinical School in year 3.
Flinders
Bedford Park
Flinders runs a 4-year graduate-entry MD with a distinctive problem-based learning curriculum. It is based at Bedford Park in Adelaide. Its flagship Northern Territory Medical Program is based at Royal Darwin Hospital. It stands out for deep Indigenous health, rural, and remote teaching networks.
Griffith
Gold Coast
Griffith runs a 4-year graduate MD on the Gold Coast, co-located with Gold Coast University Hospital. Placements extend across Logan, Toowoomba, and rural clinical sites. It stands out for hospital-integrated training from year 1 and a strong primary care focus.
JCU
Townsville
JCU runs a 6-year undergraduate MBBS. It trains doctors for tropical, rural, remote, and Indigenous communities across northern Australia and the western Pacific. Placements are anchored in Townsville, Cairns, Mackay, Mount Isa, and Thursday Island. Two things set it apart. Selection uses no aptitude test, and the program is built around a tropical and rural workforce mission.
Macquarie
Sydney
Macquarie offers a 4-year graduate-entry MD integrated with Macquarie University Hospital, distinguished by early hospital immersion, small cohort sizes, and digital health and innovation focus.
Melbourne
Parkville
Melbourne runs a research-rich 4-year graduate-entry MD. It is based across the Parkville hospital precinct, and extends to the Austin, Western, and St Vincent's clinical schools. It stands out for deep biomedical research integration and Australia's broadest hospital teaching network.
Monash
Clayton
Monash runs Australia's largest medical program, with two pathways: a 5-year undergraduate MD (Direct Entry) and a 4-year graduate MD at Gippsland. Teaching is based at the Clayton campus. Placements extend across Monash Health (Clayton, Dandenong, and Casey), Peninsula Health, and rural clinical schools at Mildura and Bendigo.
Newcastle / JMP
Newcastle
The JMP is a 5-year undergraduate joint Bachelor of Medical Science / MD. It is run between the University of Newcastle and the University of New England. Placements run across the Hunter, New England, and Central Coast local health districts. The program is built around a rural and Indigenous workforce mission.
Notre Dame Fremantle
Fremantle
Notre Dame Fremantle (the original Notre Dame Australia campus, est. 1989; medical school est. 2005) mirrors the Sydney campus model with a 4-year graduate-entry MD anchored at the Fremantle campus and placements across St John of God Fremantle, Joondalup, Rockingham, Bunbury, and rural WA clinical sites. From 2024, CASPer-weighted selection (NOT portfolio); from 2027, expanded KCRMT Broome pathway.
Notre Dame Sydney
Sydney
Notre Dame Sydney runs a 4-year graduate MD, based at the Darlinghurst campus. Placements run across St Vincent's, Northern Beaches, and rural NSW clinical sites. It stands out for an ethics-rich curriculum, and for giving CASPer real weight in selection.
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney runs a research-intensive 4-year graduate MD. It is based at the Royal Prince Alfred, Westmead, Concord, and Nepean clinical schools. A mandatory independent research project runs through years 2 to 4. Placement breadth is strong across metropolitan, regional, and rural NSW.
Tasmania
Hobart
Tasmania runs the only medical program in the state. It is a 5-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine (BMedScMD), based at the Sandy Bay campus in Hobart. Placements run across Royal Hobart Hospital, Launceston General Hospital, and the North West Regional Hospital in Burnie. Two things set it apart. It is Tasmania's sole medical pipeline, and it ranks applicants on ATAR first, with the UCAT-ANZ used only as a tiebreaker. There is no interview.
UNSW
Sydney
UNSW Medicine is a 6-year undergraduate MD. The first two years are pre-clinical. The final four are integrated clinical years across Sydney teaching hospitals, including Prince of Wales and St Vincent's, plus rural clinical schools. It stands out for mandatory research components and strong global-health pathways.
UQ
Herston
UQ runs Australia's largest graduate-entry MD, over 4 years. Placements span the Herston, Princess Alexandra, Royal Brisbane, Mater, and Gold Coast clinical schools. There are also rural pathways and an international pathway at Ochsner in New Orleans. It stands out for scale, hospital breadth, and translational research depth.
UWA
Crawley
UWA runs Western Australia's flagship medical program, and it offers two pathways: a 7-year combined Bachelor + MD Direct Pathway, and a 4-year Graduate MD. Teaching is based at the Crawley campus and at Royal Perth, Sir Charles Gairdner, and Fiona Stanley hospitals. The Rural Clinical School footprint is wide. It spans the South West, Mid West, Goldfields, and Kimberley.
Western Sydney
Campbelltown
WSU Medicine is a 5-year undergraduate MD. It exists to produce doctors for Greater Western Sydney and rural NSW. Placements run across Campbelltown, Liverpool, and Blacktown, plus rural clinical sites including Bathurst and Lismore.
Wollongong
Wollongong
Wollongong's 4-year graduate MD trains doctors for regional and rural NSW with longitudinal community placements in years 3-4 across the Illawarra, Shoalhaven, and Murrumbidgee regions.
Campus photo credits
Campus photographs are used under free Creative Commons or public-domain licences and have been resized and cropped for display.
- Adelaide: photograph by Yu Chu Chin — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- ANU: photograph by Thennicke — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Bond: photograph by coastal.culture.vulture — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Sturt (Rural): photograph by Content Charles Sturt — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Curtin: photograph by Orderinchaos — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Deakin: photograph by Bob T — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Flinders: photograph by Cyberjunkie — CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
- Griffith: photograph by Chris Olszewski — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- JCU: photograph by Nielg — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- Macquarie: photograph by Macquarie University — CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Melbourne: photograph by Polly clip — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Monash: photograph by Rob Deutscher from Melbourne, Australia — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Newcastle / JMP: photograph by HMRIAustralia — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Notre Dame Fremantle: photograph by Calistemon — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Notre Dame Sydney: photograph by RubyGoes — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Sydney: photograph by Jason Tong — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Tasmania: photograph by Gary Houston (User:Ghouston) — CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
- UNSW: photograph by J Bar — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- UQ: photograph by Kgbo — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- UWA: photograph by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Western Sydney: photograph by Sciencefreak109 — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Wollongong: photograph by JVPurvis — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Entry guides: how to get into each medical school (22)
Grades, admissions test cut-offs, interview format and a realistic chances read for every school, one guide each.
- How to get into Adelaide
- How to get into ANU
- How to get into Bond
- How to get into Charles Sturt (Rural)
- How to get into Curtin
- How to get into Deakin
- How to get into Flinders
- How to get into Griffith
- How to get into JCU
- How to get into Macquarie
- How to get into Melbourne
- How to get into Monash
- How to get into Newcastle / JMP
- How to get into Notre Dame Fremantle
- How to get into Notre Dame Sydney
- How to get into Sydney
- How to get into Tasmania
- How to get into UNSW
- How to get into UQ
- How to get into UWA
- How to get into Western Sydney
- How to get into Wollongong
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