CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program vs Flinders

UCAT-ANZ cut-offs. CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program — Contributes 10% of the admission rank; no cut-off published. Flinders — no published cut-off.

GAMSAT cut-offs. CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program — not used or not published. Flinders — 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…

Timing shapes the choice as much as the score. GAMSAT is graduate-only and sits in March and September; UCAT-ANZ is mostly undergraduate and sits in July. A few schools run their own selection model with no national test at all.

CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program requires Ranked on Year 12 ATAR (90%) plus a UCAT-ANZ derived score (10%). To be competitive CDU states an ATAR of 90 or above, or 85 or above for First Nations applicants. 12 places a year — 5 NT residents, 5 NT First Nations, 2 national First Nations.

Applicants must demonstrate eligibility for NT origin status. SATAC code 104661.

Flinders requires Graduate entry (4-year MD): completed or final-year Bachelor degree (or One-year Honours) with a minimum Flinders-equivalent non-weighted GPA of 5.00; valid GAMSAT with a minimum of 50 in EACH section (normally valid for four consecutive intakes; international applicants may use GAMSAT or MCAT, normally 124 per section / 496 overall); a semi-structured panel interview of approximately 45-50 minutes that must be passed.

No prerequisite subjects and no 10-year rule. SARM (rural South Australia) and NTMP (Northern Territory) pathways available, plus Rural, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and Humanitarian Visa sub-quotas; Indigenous Entry Stream (IES) for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander graduates without a valid GAMSAT (applications open early November and close end of February).

Direct entry (6-year Bachelor of Clinical Sciences / Doctor of Medicine): Year 12 with a minimum ATAR of 95.00 plus UCAT ANZ, applied for through SATAC, no interview, and applicants must not have a record of study at higher education level; a GPA of 5.0 is required to progress into the MD component.

ATAR. CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program — Competitive at 90 or above; 85 or above for First Nations applicants. CDU frames these as competitive levels, not a published floor. Flinders — no published cut-off.

Graduate-entry GPA. CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program — not applicable or not published. Flinders — 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…

Read every ATAR figure as a selection rank, not a raw score. Educational access bonuses, rural-origin uplift and Indigenous pathways all adjust it, so the published number is rarely the one that decides your application.

CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program uses Interview (No interview — ranked on ATAR (90%) and UCAT-ANZ derived score (10%)); Flinders uses Panel (Semi-structured panel interview, normally approximately 45-50 minutes (NOT MMI); must be passed as a hurdle).

These two formats reward different skills — Interview emphasises academic reasoning and thinking aloud through unfamiliar problems, while Panel rewards depth and consistency.

If your strengths lie in conversational depth, Flinders may suit you more. If you prefer discrete capsule answers under time pressure, either is the better fit.

Intake size: CDU / Flinders — NT Medical Program — 12 places a year (5 NT resident, 5 NT First Nations, 2 national First Nations).; Flinders — 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.. A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.