Q: What GPA do I need for Adelaide vs Sydney?

Adelaide — GPA not published in the structured AU requirements. Sydney — 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. These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. Many AU graduate MD programs treat the GPA as a hurdle (above the floor, all candidates are weighted equally on GAMSAT and interview) rather than as a sliding-scale rank — confirm each school's specific model.

Q: How do interviews differ between Adelaide and Sydney?

Adelaide uses: Multiple Mini Interview — a minimum of six stations of 10 minutes each, one interviewer per station, held online over Zoom (2027 entry; Adelaide states there is no in-person, telephone or alternative-platform option).. Sydney uses: No interview on the standard Metropolitan (Sydney) graduate pathway - ranking is on individual GAMSAT section scores only. The Dubbo stream adds a compulsory personal statement plus a possible interview that feeds the final ranking. Some international applicants are interviewed and international offers depend on it. The school-leaver DDMP is selected by an online Assessment Day (group interview + written assessment). Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme applicants may be required to attend an interview. No Sydney pathway uses an MMI.. Different formats reward different skill sets. Plan separate prep streams for each. Interview windows: November-December (Adelaide); No interview on the standard Metropolitan graduate pathway. Dubbo-stream and Indigenous-scheme interview dates are not published by Sydney (they necessarily fall between the 4 June 2026 application close and the 3 September 2026 first-round offers, but no date is published). DDMP online Assessment Days 18 December 2026 and 18 January 2027 for domestic applicants; international DDMP online assessments 23 September 2026, 2 December 2026 and 28 January 2027. (Sydney).

Q: What place types (CSP / BMP / Full-fee) do Adelaide and Sydney offer?

Adelaide — Two Commonwealth Supported Place types with separate SATAC codes — non-bonded (ABP171) and Bonded Medical Program (ABP271, carrying a Return of Service Obligation); the split is not published. Adelaide publishes no annual place count; its official student profile shows 160 students commencing the program in Semester 1 2026, of whom 28 (17.5%) were international — a commencement count, not a place allocation. Indicative international tuition is AUD $103,000 per year. The previously cited 136 does not appear on any current Adelaide University page. Sydney — 2027 entry, as published by Sydney: 141 Metropolitan CSP + 66 Metropolitan Bonded Medical Program places + 24 Dubbo CSP = 231 domestic offers anticipated (TBC), including ~30 reserved for Double Degree Medicine progressions; plus up to 70 full-fee international places in the Metropolitan stream. BMP places are additional to the standard CSPs and sit at the Commonwealth's 28.5% of commencing medical CSPs (66/231 = 28.6%). Identical admission criteria apply to all place types. No domestic full-fee places; Dubbo is CSP-only. CSP (Commonwealth Supported Place) is the lowest student contribution; BMP (Bonded Medical Program) adds a 1-year return-of-service obligation in a Modified Monash Model 2-7 area after Fellowship; Full-fee places carry no bond but the highest tuition.

Q: Does Adelaide or Sydney offer bonded / rural-entry places?

Adelaide — Bonded Medical Program places sit under their own SATAC code (ABP271) with a Return of Service Obligation in eligible regional, rural or remote areas; the count is not published. Separately, approximately 41 places are reserved for the Rural Background pathway, open to applicants who lived in a Modified Monash Model (MMM 2019) MM 2–7 area for at least five consecutive years or ten years cumulatively, with a Rural Entry Pathway Statutory Declaration uploaded to SATAC within five days; interview places are filled in four priority categories (MM 2–7 applicant at an SA rural school, then at any SA school, then at a rural school in any state, then anywhere in Australia) and ranked on UCAT ANZ within each. All Commonwealth Supported students must complete at least four weeks of rural placement, and 30% of domestic students must spend a full clinical year rurally — allocated by random ballot if not filled voluntarily. A minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations go to South Australians. Sydney — ~28.5% of CSP places are BMP (national mandate). Sydney publishes no reserved block of rural places. Its rural-origin cohort target is set by the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training program guidelines; the AMC recorded it in 2021 as a minimum of 27% of the cohort from 2020, and it has not been restated for the 2027 cycle - it is a cohort-composition target, not reserved places. Sydney's own Rural Applicants Facilitated Entry Scheme for 2027 entry is a GPA concession only (minimum GPA 4.5 instead of 5.0, requiring ASGS rural residence of 5 consecutive or 10 cumulative years); the GAMSAT hurdle of 50 in each section is unchanged for rural applicants. Rural GPA floor reduced to 4.5. The federal BMP allocates ~28.5% of CSP places nationally; individual schools sit above or below that benchmark depending on their workforce remit.

Q: When does each school release decisions?

Adelaide typically releases medicine offers January. Sydney releases medicine offers Graduate MD 2027 entry: domestic first-round offers 3 September 2026, continuing to January 2027; international first-round offers 1 October 2026, continuing to December 2026. School-leaver DDMP runs on the UAC rounds instead (23 December 2026 and 21 January 2027).. AU MD offers run through GEMSAS (graduate consortium) or direct school portals; if one is earlier than the other you may need to defer a decision while waiting for the second.

Q: What curriculum style do Adelaide and Sydney use?

Adelaide runs a Integrated curriculum. Sydney runs a Integrated curriculum. Both schools deliver teaching in the same broad style, so day-to-day study habits will feel similar. Adelaide specifics: 6-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medical Studies + Doctor of Medicine (BMS/MD; 3 + 3). Taught at the Adelaide City Campus (Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building, corner of North Terrace and Ge Sydney specifics: 4-year graduate MD. Eight vertical themes run across all four years: basic and clinical sciences; clinical skills; diagnostics and therapy; research, evidence and informatics; population health; Indig

Question 1

What admission tests do Adelaide and Sydney use?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide uses UCAT-ANZ. Sydney uses GAMSAT and MCAT. The test mismatch means you may need to prep two assessments simultaneously, or you can pick the school whose admission test you're stronger in. GAMSAT is graduate-only and sat in March/September; UCAT-ANZ is undergraduate-leaning and sat in July; some schools (notably Bond and JCU) run their own selection model with no national test.

Question 2

What GAMSAT score do I need for Adelaide vs Sydney?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — does not publish a GAMSAT cut-off (may not use GAMSAT; check the admission-test question above). Sydney — 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. These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. GAMSAT results are valid for four years with ACER, but some graduate MD programs accept only the most recent two cycles — verify before relying on an older sitting.

Question 3

What UCAT-ANZ score do I need for Adelaide vs Sydney?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — 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. Sydney — does not publish a UCAT-ANZ cut-off (may not use UCAT-ANZ; check the admission-test question above). These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. UCAT-ANZ cut-offs are cohort-dependent, so the headline number from one cycle is not guaranteed for the next — use it as a planning anchor, not a guarantee.

Question 4

What ATAR do I need for Adelaide vs Sydney?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — 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. Sydney — ATAR data not published in the structured AU requirements; see free-text admission requirements on the school page. These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. Selection rank typically includes Educational Access Scheme bonuses, rural-origin uplift, and (where applicable) Indigenous-pathway adjustments — your raw ATAR is rarely the final figure used.

Question 5

What GPA do I need for Adelaide vs Sydney?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — GPA not published in the structured AU requirements. Sydney — 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. These are the requirements on record for 2027-entry applicants. Many AU graduate MD programs treat the GPA as a hurdle (above the floor, all candidates are weighted equally on GAMSAT and interview) rather than as a sliding-scale rank — confirm each school's specific model.

Question 6

How do interviews differ between Adelaide and Sydney?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide uses: Multiple Mini Interview — a minimum of six stations of 10 minutes each, one interviewer per station, held online over Zoom (2027 entry; Adelaide states there is no in-person, telephone or alternative-platform option).. Sydney uses: No interview on the standard Metropolitan (Sydney) graduate pathway - ranking is on individual GAMSAT section scores only. The Dubbo stream adds a compulsory personal statement plus a possible interview that feeds the final ranking. Some international applicants are interviewed and international offers depend on it. The school-leaver DDMP is selected by an online Assessment Day (group interview + written assessment). Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme applicants may be required to attend an interview. No Sydney pathway uses an MMI.. Different formats reward different skill sets. Plan separate prep streams for each. Interview windows: November-December (Adelaide); No interview on the standard Metropolitan graduate pathway. Dubbo-stream and Indigenous-scheme interview dates are not published by Sydney (they necessarily fall between the 4 June 2026 application close and the 3 September 2026 first-round offers, but no date is published). DDMP online Assessment Days 18 December 2026 and 18 January 2027 for domestic applicants; international DDMP online assessments 23 September 2026, 2 December 2026 and 28 January 2027. (Sydney).

Question 7

What place types (CSP / BMP / Full-fee) do Adelaide and Sydney offer?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — Two Commonwealth Supported Place types with separate SATAC codes — non-bonded (ABP171) and Bonded Medical Program (ABP271, carrying a Return of Service Obligation); the split is not published. Adelaide publishes no annual place count; its official student profile shows 160 students commencing the program in Semester 1 2026, of whom 28 (17.5%) were international — a commencement count, not a place allocation. Indicative international tuition is AUD $103,000 per year. The previously cited 136 does not appear on any current Adelaide University page. Sydney — 2027 entry, as published by Sydney: 141 Metropolitan CSP + 66 Metropolitan Bonded Medical Program places + 24 Dubbo CSP = 231 domestic offers anticipated (TBC), including ~30 reserved for Double Degree Medicine progressions; plus up to 70 full-fee international places in the Metropolitan stream. BMP places are additional to the standard CSPs and sit at the Commonwealth's 28.5% of commencing medical CSPs (66/231 = 28.6%). Identical admission criteria apply to all place types. No domestic full-fee places; Dubbo is CSP-only. CSP (Commonwealth Supported Place) is the lowest student contribution; BMP (Bonded Medical Program) adds a 1-year return-of-service obligation in a Modified Monash Model 2-7 area after Fellowship; Full-fee places carry no bond but the highest tuition.

Question 8

What Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander entry pathways do Adelaide and Sydney offer?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — Entry is via the School of Medicine's own Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway, documented on the Bachelor of Medical Studies page — not via the old Wirltu Yarlu Access Pathway, whose URLs now redirect to Adelaide University's First Nations page, which lists the Bachelor of Medical Studies among degrees with their own dedicated entry routes rather than under the general Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pathway. Applicants apply through SATAC with an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statutory Declaration uploaded within five working days and are not required to sit the UCAT ANZ. A number of places are reserved — Adelaide does not publish the count — and all eligible applicants are invited to interview: a panel of three to four people (academics, clinicians and alumni, largely Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander), around 20 minutes long, preceded by an informal yarn. The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences no longer exists; the program sits in the College of Health, School of Medicine. Sydney — Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme, in two streams - one for applicants with a bachelor's degree and one for applicants with a master's or PhD (the latter needs no bachelor's degree). GPA of 4.5 is preferred, and the Indigenous Admissions Advisory Group (IAAG) may consider and recommend applicants below it who show improvement across their tertiary studies. From 2027 entry the GAMSAT requirement is waived for this scheme, as is the rule requiring two years of study at the awarding institution. Eligible applicants may be required to attend an interview; no format is published and it is not an MMI. Annual quota not publicly disclosed (the AMC's 2021 report records a cohort target of 2% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students). The DDMP school-leaver route drops the ATAR requirement to 90 for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants, who are then invited to the Assessment Day interview. Both schools accept ATSI applicants through the standard pathway as well; the dedicated pathway typically offers adjusted academic thresholds plus wrap-around academic support.

Question 9

Does Adelaide or Sydney offer bonded / rural-entry places?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide — Bonded Medical Program places sit under their own SATAC code (ABP271) with a Return of Service Obligation in eligible regional, rural or remote areas; the count is not published. Separately, approximately 41 places are reserved for the Rural Background pathway, open to applicants who lived in a Modified Monash Model (MMM 2019) MM 2–7 area for at least five consecutive years or ten years cumulatively, with a Rural Entry Pathway Statutory Declaration uploaded to SATAC within five days; interview places are filled in four priority categories (MM 2–7 applicant at an SA rural school, then at any SA school, then at a rural school in any state, then anywhere in Australia) and ranked on UCAT ANZ within each. All Commonwealth Supported students must complete at least four weeks of rural placement, and 30% of domestic students must spend a full clinical year rurally — allocated by random ballot if not filled voluntarily. A minimum 50% of school-leaver interview invitations go to South Australians. Sydney — ~28.5% of CSP places are BMP (national mandate). Sydney publishes no reserved block of rural places. Its rural-origin cohort target is set by the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training program guidelines; the AMC recorded it in 2021 as a minimum of 27% of the cohort from 2020, and it has not been restated for the 2027 cycle - it is a cohort-composition target, not reserved places. Sydney's own Rural Applicants Facilitated Entry Scheme for 2027 entry is a GPA concession only (minimum GPA 4.5 instead of 5.0, requiring ASGS rural residence of 5 consecutive or 10 cumulative years); the GAMSAT hurdle of 50 in each section is unchanged for rural applicants. Rural GPA floor reduced to 4.5. The federal BMP allocates ~28.5% of CSP places nationally; individual schools sit above or below that benchmark depending on their workforce remit.

Question 10

When does each school release decisions?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide typically releases medicine offers January. Sydney releases medicine offers Graduate MD 2027 entry: domestic first-round offers 3 September 2026, continuing to January 2027; international first-round offers 1 October 2026, continuing to December 2026. School-leaver DDMP runs on the UAC rounds instead (23 December 2026 and 21 January 2027).. AU MD offers run through GEMSAS (graduate consortium) or direct school portals; if one is earlier than the other you may need to defer a decision while waiting for the second.

Question 11

What curriculum style do Adelaide and Sydney use?

Accepted Answer

Adelaide runs a Integrated curriculum. Sydney runs a Integrated curriculum. Both schools deliver teaching in the same broad style, so day-to-day study habits will feel similar. Adelaide specifics: 6-year undergraduate Bachelor of Medical Studies + Doctor of Medicine (BMS/MD; 3 + 3). Taught at the Adelaide City Campus (Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences building, corner of North Terrace and Ge Sydney specifics: 4-year graduate MD. Eight vertical themes run across all four years: basic and clinical sciences; clinical skills; diagnostics and therapy; research, evidence and informatics; population health; Indig

Question 12

Should I apply to both Adelaide and Sydney?

Accepted Answer

Yes — AU medical applicants typically lodge preferences across multiple schools via GEMSAS (graduate) or direct-undergraduate portals + state TACs (UAC for NSW, VTAC for VIC, QTAC for QLD, etc.). The two schools' selection mechanics differ enough that listing both is a legitimate diversification strategy. A common mistake is over-indexing on schools with the same test-and-interview profile; Adelaide and Sydney differ in their selection mechanics, so prepping both adds genuine optionality.

Comparison field	AdelaideAdelaide	SydneySydney
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Location	Adelaide, Australia	Sydney, Australia
Entry pathway	Undergraduate	Dual (UG + Grad)
Admission tests	UCAT-ANZ	GAMSAT + MCAT
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.
UCAT-ANZ	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.	-
ATAR	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.	-
Interview format	Multiple Mini Interview — a minimum of six stations of 10 minutes each, one interviewer per station, held online over Zoom (2027 entry; Adelaide states there is no in-person, telephone or alternative-platform option).	No interview on the standard Metropolitan (Sydney) graduate pathway - ranking is on individual GAMSAT section scores only. The Dubbo stream adds a compulsory personal statement plus a possible interview that feeds the final ranking. Some international applicants are interviewed and international offers depend on it. The school-leaver DDMP is selected by an online Assessment Day (group interview + written assessment). Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme applicants may be required to attend an interview. No Sydney pathway uses an MMI.
Post-interview chance	Not published by Adelaide, and no admissions centre or Medical Deans report gives an interview-to-offer rate for this program. The only Tier-1 figures are approximately 600 domestic applicants invited to interview and 160 students commencing in Semester 1 2026 (28 of them international) — enough to show that a ~35% domestic conversion is unsupported, but not enough to state a rate, since commencements are not offers and the same interview also covers Dentistry and Oral Health applicants.	N/A for the standard Metropolitan graduate pathway - GAMSAT section ranking determines offers. Sydney publishes no post-interview conversion data for the Dubbo stream, the international interview, the Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme interview, or the DDMP Assessment Day.
Decision date	January	Graduate MD 2027 entry: domestic first-round offers 3 September 2026, continuing to January 2027; international first-round offers 1 October 2026, continuing to December 2026. School-leaver DDMP runs on the UAC rounds instead (23 December 2026 and 21 January 2027).

ATAR	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.	-
Contextual ATAR	Adjustment factors for the Bachelor of Medical Studies are available only under the Universities Equity Scheme — the medicine program does not consider subject adjustment factors, so the Universities Language, Literacy and Mathematics Scheme does not apply. A minimum 50% of school-leaver applicants invited to interview will be from South Australia (an interview-invitation quota, not an offer quota).	-
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.
UCAT-ANZ	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.	-
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ISAT	-	Accepted in lieu of GAMSAT for some international applicants.
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.
Prerequisites	-	-
Place types	Two Commonwealth Supported Place types with separate SATAC codes — non-bonded (ABP171) and Bonded Medical Program (ABP271, carrying a Return of Service Obligation); the split is not published. Adelaide publishes no annual place count; its official student profile shows 160 students commencing the program in Semester 1 2026, of whom 28 (17.5%) were international — a commencement count, not a place allocation. Indicative international tuition is AUD $103,000 per year. The previously cited 136 does not appear on any current Adelaide University page.	2027 entry, as published by Sydney: 141 Metropolitan CSP + 66 Metropolitan Bonded Medical Program places + 24 Dubbo CSP = 231 domestic offers anticipated (TBC), including ~30 reserved for Double Degree Medicine progressions; plus up to 70 full-fee international places in the Metropolitan stream. BMP places are additional to the standard CSPs and sit at the Commonwealth's 28.5% of commencing medical CSPs (66/231 = 28.6%). Identical admission criteria apply to all place types. No domestic full-fee places; Dubbo is CSP-only.
Indigenous pathway	Entry is via the School of Medicine's own Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathway, documented on the Bachelor of Medical Studies page — not via the old Wirltu Yarlu Access Pathway, whose URLs no…	Indigenous Facilitated Entry Scheme, in two streams - one for applicants with a bachelor's degree and one for applicants with a master's or PhD (the latter needs no bachelor's degree). GPA of 4.5 is p…
Bonded / rural	Bonded Medical Program places sit under their own SATAC code (ABP271) with a Return of Service Obligation in eligible regional, rural or remote areas; the count is not published. Separately, approxima…	~28.5% of CSP places are BMP (national mandate). Sydney publishes no reserved block of rural places. Its rural-origin cohort target is set by the Rural Health Multidisciplinary Training program guidel…

Interview window	November-December	No interview on the standard Metropolitan graduate pathway. Dubbo-stream and Indigenous-scheme interview dates are not published by Sydney (they necessarily fall between the 4 June 2026 application close and the 3 September 2026 first-round offers, but no date is published). DDMP online Assessment Days 18 December 2026 and 18 January 2027 for domestic applicants; international DDMP online assessments 23 September 2026, 2 December 2026 and 28 January 2027.
Interview details	Adelaide runs a Multiple Mini Interview with a minimum of six stations lasting 10 minutes each, one interviewer per station, held entirely online over Zoom — there is no in-person, telephone or altern…	Sydney's standard Metropolitan graduate pathway has had no interview for several cycles - the 2027 admissions guides describe none, while the AMC's 2021 accreditation report still recorded an intervie…

Specialities	Rural Medicine, Clinical Research, Reproductive Medicine, Indigenous Health, General Practice	Clinical Research, Global Health, Indigenous Health, Rural Medicine, Infectious Disease
Established	1885	1856
Course type	Undergraduate	Undergraduate
What makes it different	Adelaide runs South Australia's oldest medical school (est. 1885) as a 6-year undergraduate BMS+MD (3+3). Admission offer weighting: Academic 40% + UCAT cognitive 20% + Interview 40%. Strong rural pip…	Sydney runs a 4-year graduate-entry MD (a masters-level degree, CRICOS 079216J) with a substantial 14-week research project in year 3 and a full pre-internship year 4. The standard Metropolitan pathwa…
Official course page	https://adelaide.edu.au/study/degrees/bachelor-of-medical-studies/dom/	https://www.sydney.edu.au/courses/courses/pc/doctor-of-medicine0.html

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