2027 Entry Requirements & Interview Format
Monash Medical School, Monash University in Clayton, VIC runs a school-leaver and graduate-entry medicine program for 2027 entry. Admission tests listed: UCAT-ANZ and ISAT. Published hurdles: ATAR — Direct Entry minimum eligibility ATAR 90; GPA — Graduate Entry (international): minimum GPA 6.0/7.0. Monash holds multiple mini interviews (MMI).
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Read the guide →Integrated + Problem-based learning, 5 years (direct entry), placements in metropolitan Melbourne, Gippsland and north-west Victoria.
See the course →Monash is, on its own account, the only Victorian university running both a school-leaver and a graduate pathway into the same degree - a 5-year Direct Entry and 4-year Graduate Entry Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine - anchored at Clayton and taught through four clinical schools: the School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health (Monash Medical Centre, Dandenong, Casey, Moorabbin, Kingston), the School of Translational Medicine (The Alfred, Sandringham, Caulfield, Cabrini, Peninsula Health), the Eastern Health Clinical School (Box Hill, Maroondah, Angliss) and the School of Rural Health (Bendigo, Mildura, Warragul, Sale, Traralgon, Bairnsdale, Leongatha, Wonthaggi).
Monash says it is the only Victorian university offering both a direct-entry school-leaver pathway and a graduate-entry pathway to the SAME degree - Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine.
Direct Entry (M6011) is 5 years from Clayton on equally weighted ATAR + UCAT-ANZ + MMI; Graduate Entry (M6018) is 4 years with Year A at Monash Rural Health Churchill, selected on WAM 40% + MMI 60% with no admission test.
DOMESTIC graduate entry is closed to outside graduates - only nominated Monash degrees plus Federation University's Gippsland Partnership Bachelor of Biomedical Science qualify - but INTERNATIONAL graduate entry is open to any recognised bachelor degree with substantial biomedical content.
Direct Entry interviews run in three rounds: a first round in December ranked on UCAT-ANZ alone (Dean's Rural List applicants, then Victorian-based non-DRL applicants), a second round in January for Victorian and DRL applicants ranked on equally weighted UCAT-ANZ and ATAR aggregate, and a third January round for applicants who completed Year 12 interstate or overseas.
Integrated curriculum. Both pathways award the same degree, Bachelor of Medical Science and Doctor of Medicine, and share the same four clinical schools. Direct Entry (5 years; years 1, 2, 3B, 4C, 5D): years 1-2 largely campus-based at Clayton, years 3-5 in hospitals and community practices across metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria, with a single February intake.
Graduate Entry (4 years; Year A then 3B, 4C, 5D): Year A alone is taught at Monash Rural Health Churchill in Gippsland, with early clinical placements at one of six Gippsland hospitals and regular visits to Clayton; the three clinical years can be taken in metropolitan Melbourne, rural south-east or rural north-west Victoria.
DOMESTIC graduate entry is restricted to nominated Monash degrees plus Federation University's Gippsland Partnership Bachelor of Biomedical Science; international graduate entry is open to any recognised bachelor degree with substantial biomedical content.
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Format: Multiple Mini Interview, online via Zoom (6 stations × 8 min interview + 2 min reading; 4 stations for international applicants)
Monash interviews by Multiple Mini Interview on every pathway, delivered online via Zoom.
Domestic applicants sit SIX stations on both Direct and Graduate Entry; Monash publishes the timing on the Direct Entry page - 2 minutes reading then 8 minutes interviewing per station (10 minutes a station), with the circuit taking 70-80 minutes including pre-brief and debrief (the Graduate Entry page lists the same six stations but does not restate the timings; its key dates confirm interviews are held on Zoom).
International applicants on both pathways sit a FOUR-station version, which the graduate-entry international page describes with the same 2+8 minute structure over a 50-60 minute circuit. Stations assess advocacy, collaboration, critical thinking, empathy, ethical reasoning, motivation and resilience.
There is no standalone SJT and no CASPer at any stage; the UCAT-ANZ situational judgement mark is used only as a secondary differentiator between applicants on the same UCAT-ANZ total score. You may attend the MMI for a given Monash medicine course only once, ever - though having interviewed for Direct Entry does not block a later Graduate Entry interview.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants instead sit an all-Indigenous panel interview in place of the MMI.
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.
Monash Medical School, Monash University was founded in 1961 and is based in Clayton.
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Try the AI interviewer| Entry pathway | Undergraduate and graduate entry |
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| ATAR | Direct Entry minimum eligibility ATAR 90 |
| GPA | Graduate Entry (international): minimum GPA 6.0/7.0 |
| GAMSAT | Not required and not accepted on any Monash pathway - both Graduate Entry pages state applicants are not required to sit the GAMSAT, and Direct Entry has never used it |
| UCAT-ANZ | The 2027-entry cut-offs are not yet published - invitations are scheduled for release on 12 and 14 October 2026 |
| Interview format | Multiple mini interviews (MMI) |
| Intake | Direct Entry (Clayton): approximately 234 domestic places, inclusive of 30 Extended Rural Cohort and approximately 67 Bonded Medical Program places |
| Admission overview | Direct Entry (domestic): school-leavers only - Year 12 completed no more than two years earlier and NO commenced tertiary study (Certificate IV and above disqualifies). Minimum ATAR 90 (2026-entry lowest offers: 96.10 standard, 95.05 ERC, 91.25 BMP); VCE English (study score 35 EAL or 30 non-EAL) and Chemistry (30) prerequisites, Biology not required; UCAT-ANZ; MMI. Monash states the three components - ATAR aggregate (including adjustment factors), UCAT-ANZ total and MMI - are equally weighted. Direct Entry (international): ISAT (170 overall, 165 per section) instead of UCAT-ANZ, with published equivalents of VCE 97.50 / IB 39. Graduate Entry (domestic): a nominated Monash degree (Bachelor of Biomedical Science, Pharmacy (Hons), Physiotherapy (Hons), or Bachelor of Science with five specified units) or Federation University's Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Gippsland Partnership Program), WAM ≥ 70, ranked on WAM 40% + MMI 60%; at least 70% of places are reserved for Monash Bachelor of Biomedical Science graduates. Graduate Entry (international): any internationally recognised bachelor degree with significant, broad biomedical science content at GPA ≥ 6.0/7.0. No GAMSAT and no SJT on any pathway; Graduate Entry applicants can be considered only twice, and the MMI may be attended only once per course. |
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| ATAR | 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. |
| Contextual ATAR | Adjustment factors come through VTAC equity schemes (formerly SEAS): Monash states the maximum available adjustment is 20 aggregate points (up to 10 ATAR points), applied to the combined study scores before the ATAR is recalculated, and that it uses this adjusted ATAR during selection. Dean's Rural List (DRL) applicants receive a further adjustment (Monash refers to "SEAS equity and/or Dean Rural List (DRL) adjustments") and are ranked in a separate rural pool, with at least 27% of domestic medicine places reserved for them. There is no scheme called the "Monash Access Scheme". Indigenous Australian applicants are exempt from competitive ranking rather than admitted at a stated ATAR - Monash publishes no ATAR threshold for them. |
| GAMSAT | Not required and not accepted on any Monash pathway - both Graduate Entry pages state applicants are not required to sit the GAMSAT, and Direct Entry has never used it. Monash publishes no date for its removal. |
| UCAT-ANZ | 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. |
| GPA | Graduate Entry (domestic): minimum WAM 70 to be eligible, but Monash publishes the non-DRL WAM cut-off to be INVITED TO INTERVIEW - 82.313 for 2026 entry (81.179 for 2025, 80.313 for 2024, 82.386 for 2023); check Monash's table for the 2027-entry figure. Dean's Rural List applicants clear a lower WAM and are assessed separately. WAM is taken from the undergraduate degree only, measured at the end of Semester 1 of the application year. Graduate Entry (international): minimum GPA 6.0/7.0. |
| Place types | Direct Entry: approximately 234 domestic places in total per Monash's FAQs - the 30 Extended Rural Cohort places and the approximately 67 Bonded Medical Program places sit INSIDE that 234, not on top of it. Graduate Entry: approximately 72 domestic places, of which 35 are End-to-End Rural (30 north-west, 5 Gippsland from the 2027 intake) and at least 70% are held for Monash Bachelor of Biomedical Science graduates. All domestic places on both pathways are Commonwealth Supported Places. At least 27% of domestic medicine places are reserved for Dean's Rural List applicants. Monash does not publish an international place count. |
| Indigenous pathway | Monash Indigenous Entry Scheme: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are exempt from competitive ranking and instead complete a panel interview with an all-Indigenous panel (academics, student engagement staff and a community member). On Direct Entry that panel interview replaces BOTH the MMI and the UCAT-ANZ; on Graduate Entry it replaces the MMI. Applicants register for the interview through a Monash form. Monash publishes no ATAR threshold for the scheme, and GAMSAT is not used at Monash so nothing is "waived". Support during the degree comes from the William Cooper Institute and the Gukwonderuk Indigenous Health Workforces Centre. |
| Bonded / rural | Bonded Medical Program: the Australian Government requires participating universities to allocate 28.5% of commencing Commonwealth supported medical places to the Program (Monash's own page states "at least 28% of CSP places"). At Monash that is approximately 67 of the ~234 domestic Direct Entry places, applied for under a separate VTAC code (2800311251). Participants owe a 156-week (3-year) return of service in eligible MM2-MM7 areas, completable at any time within 18 years of finishing the medical course. Rural cohorts: Direct Entry Extended Rural Cohort, 30 places (first two years at Clayton, then at least 2.5 of the 3 clinical years in regional and rural Victoria); Graduate Entry End-to-End Rural Cohorts, 35 of the ~72 graduate places (30 north-west, 5 Gippsland from the 2027 intake). Separately, the Dean's Rural List reserves at least 27% of domestic medicine places for applicants who lived at an MM2-MM7 address for 5 consecutive or 10 cumulative years. |
| Specialities offered | Rural Medicine, Clinical Research, Global Health, Indigenous Health, General Practice |
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| Format | Multiple Mini Interview, online via Zoom (6 stations × 8 min interview + 2 min reading; 4 stations for international applicants) |
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| Interview window (2027 entry) | Direct Entry December-January; Graduate Entry September (2027-entry cycle) |
| Decision date (2027 entry) | Direct Entry mid-to-late January 2027 (VTAC January 2027 Rounds 1 and 2); Graduate Entry early December 2026 |
| Post-interview chances | Monash does not publish an interview-to-offer conversion rate. It does publish round volumes: for 2026 entry it made 192 December interview offers to Victorian-based non-DRL applicants and 193 to Dean's Rural List applicants, before two further interview rounds in January, against approximately 234 domestic places - so more applicants are interviewed than there are places. January-round interview volumes are not published, so no conversion percentage can be stated. |
Monash uses no CASPer and no standalone SJT - its published selection pages list only ATAR, UCAT-ANZ and MMI for Direct Entry, and WAM plus MMI for Graduate Entry, so treat prep-company claims as secondary to those pages. Prepare for UCAT-ANZ plus the round structure: the December round ranks on UCAT-ANZ alone (Dean's Rural List applicants first, then Victorian non-DRL), the January rounds on equally weighted UCAT-ANZ and ATAR aggregate, and applicants who finished Year 12 interstate or overseas are only seen in the final January round. Rehearse a six-station Zoom circuit - 2 minutes reading, 8 minutes talking per station - with a bank of six to eight concrete anecdotes across advocacy, collaboration, critical thinking, empathy, ethics, motivation and resilience. Treat it as one shot: Monash allows only one MMI attempt per course, ever. For domestic Graduate Entry you must hold a nominated Monash degree (or Federation University's Gippsland Partnership Bachelor of Biomedical Science) - but international applicants with any recognised biomedical bachelor degree at GPA 6.0/7.0 CAN apply.
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