Flinders vs Griffith

GAMSAT cut-offs. Flinders — Minimum 50 in each section. Flinders explicitly does not publish a fixed cut-off — "dependent upon the profile of the applicant pool and places available for each sub-quota, and therefore vary every… Griffith — 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…

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.

Flinders requires Bachelor degree with minimum GPA 5.00; GAMSAT minimum 50 in each section; 45-minute panel interview; SARM (rural SA) and NTMP (NT) pathways available; Indigenous Entry Stream (IES) available for applicants without a valid GAMSAT.

Griffith requires Bachelor degree with minimum GPA 5.0/7.0; GAMSAT overall 50+ with section minima 50; MMI.

Graduate-entry GPA. Flinders — Minimum 5.00 (Flinders MD Admissions Guide 2027). Typical successful ~6.0+ (forum-derived). Griffith — Minimum 5.0/7.0. Griffith explicitly states "a GPA required for interview selection is likely to be significantly higher than 5.0". 2025 intake average GPA 6.68.

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.

Flinders uses Panel (45-minute Panel Interview (NOT MMI — distinctive among AU med schools)); Griffith uses MMI (Multi-Mini Interview (typically 8-10 stations; exact count varies cycle to cycle per GUMSAA framework)). These two formats reward different skills — Panel emphasises narrative coherence and the ability to develop a thread under follow-up questioning, while MMI rewards breadth and quick recovery.

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

Interview windows: Flinders interviews in September-October; Griffith in September-October.

Flinders runs a PBL curriculum; Griffith runs a Integrated curriculum. The teaching philosophies are different — Flinders leans on small-group case-based learning from year 1, while Griffith uses a more traditional lecture-led structure.

Specifics: 4-year graduate MD with strong PBL backbone — Flinders was one of the first AU schools to adopt PBL in the 1990s. Year 1 foundations and clinical skil 4-year graduate MD. Years 1-2 hospital-integrated foundations at the Gold Coast (Southport) campus and Gold Coast University Hospital. Years 3-4 clini

Intake size: Flinders — Bedford Park CSP (~75% reserved for Flinders graduates) + SARM up to 60 + NTMP up to 24 + International separate. Bonded CSP indicative fee AUD $13,241/year (2024).; Griffith — 2027 cycle: 148 CSP + 60 BMP + 80 BMedSci pathway + up to 35 international = ~323 total (GEMSAS Griffith)..

A larger cohort means more peer breadth; a smaller cohort means more tutor contact.

Flinders: ~38% interview-to-offer. Griffith: ~38% interview-to-offer.

Post-interview odds give you the clearest signal of how competitive each school is at the final stage — a school with a 60% post-interview success rate is structurally easier to convert than one at 25%, even if the interview thresholds look identical on paper.

Flinders: Flinders runs one of Australia's oldest graduate-entry MDs (est. 1974) with a distinctive Problem-Based Learning curriculum, a 45-minute panel interview (not MMI), and a flagship Northern Territory Medical Program (NTMP). NT government pays course fees for NTMP entrants in exchange for a 4-year NT service commitment post-graduation. NTMP cumulative output >200 graduates; >50% remain in the NT workforce.

Griffith: Griffith's 4-year graduate MD is co-located with Gold Coast University Hospital, giving students hospital-integrated training from year 1. Strong rural and Indigenous pathways with bespoke MMI streams. Pre-interview ranking weights GAMSAT and GPA broadly equally; the MMI then carries substantial weight in the final composite.