How to get into Monash Medicine
Your 2027 Entry step-by-step guide
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).
- Interviews (2027 entry)
- Direct Entry December-January; Graduate Entry September (2027-entry cycle)
- Decisions (2027 entry)
- Direct Entry mid-to-late January 2027 (VTAC January 2027 Rounds 1 and 2); Graduate Entry early December 2026
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Monash expects either Year 12 ATAR or a bachelor GPA — 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. for Medicine (MBBS/MD) and uses Multiple Mini Interview, online via Zoom (6 stations × 8 min interview + 2 min reading; 4 stations for international applicants) for interviews in the 2027 Entry cycle.
Entry is dual-pathway (undergraduate and graduate) and selection uses UCAT-ANZ and ISAT; applications close through GEMSAS or your state TAC (UAC, VTAC, QTAC, SATAC, TISC), and CSP, BMP and full-fee places are all capped, so treat the standard above as a threshold to clear rather than a target to aim at.
This guide is written for 2027 Entry applicants and updated annually before each GEMSAS / UAC cycle. Sources include Monash Medical School, Monash University's official course page, GEMSAS, the UCAT-ANZ Consortium, ACER (GAMSAT), and direct conversations with current students. Read time: ~12 minutes.
Compiled from Monash Medical School, Monash University's published admissions material and checked for internal consistency. Not independently re-checked against the official course page for 2027 entry — confirm the figures with the school before you rely on them.
Monash at a glance
| 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 Interview, online via Zoom (6 stations × 8 min interview + 2 min reading; 4 stations for international applicants) |
| Interviews (2027 entry) | Direct Entry December-January; Graduate Entry September (2027-entry cycle) |
| Decisions (2027 entry) | Direct Entry mid-to-late January 2027 (VTAC January 2027 Rounds 1 and 2); Graduate Entry early December 2026 |
Monash entry requirements
| Pathway | Undergraduate and graduate entry |
|---|---|
| ATAR floor | 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. |
| 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. |
| Admission tests | UCAT-ANZ, ISAT |
| 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. |
| Interview | Multiple Mini Interview, online via Zoom (6 stations × 8 min interview + 2 min reading; 4 stations for international applicants) |
| 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. |
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.
Year 12 ATAR (school leavers) or bachelor degree GPA (graduates) is the academic gateway, plus the admission test and interview.
UCAT-ANZ
UCAT-ANZ is a 2-hour computer-based aptitude test (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning, and a separately-banded Situational Judgement Test). Sat between July and early August. The UCAT-ANZ Consortium operates separately from the UK UCAT — scores are NOT interchangeable.
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Written submissions
Australia has no equivalent of the UK's single UCAS personal statement. GEMSAS graduate-entry applications use GAMSAT + GPA without a written component; most state-TAC undergraduate applications use ATAR + UCAT-ANZ without a written component. The schools that DO require written content (JCU portfolio, Notre Dame Sydney/Fremantle questionnaire, Wollongong short answers, Bond essays) each ask different, school-specific questions. Treat each school's prompt set as a discrete short-answer test - do not recycle a single document across multiple schools.
Limits are school-specific. JCU portfolio responses: typically 250-500 words per question. Notre Dame questionnaire: 250-400 words per response. Wollongong short answers: ~300 words each. Bond essays: 500 words. Read the current cycle's prompt brief for each school carefully - limits and prompts shift cycle-to-cycle.
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"At 14, watching the geriatrician on my rural placement explain a Goals of Care decision to a frightened daughter, I realised that medicine is as much about clarity in language as it is about clinical knowledge. The conversation lasted nine minutes; the silence afterwards lasted longer. Since then I have spent…"
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The Assessment interview at Monash
Monash uses Multiple Mini Interview, online via Zoom (6 stations × 8 min interview + 2 min reading; 4 stations for international applicants). For 2027 entry, interviews typically take place in Direct Entry December-January; Graduate Entry September (2027-entry cycle). Final decisions are released Direct Entry mid-to-late January 2027 (VTAC January 2027 Rounds 1 and 2); Graduate Entry early December 2026.
At Monash, expect the following from the selection process. Assessment / recorded-interview format - some Australian schools (JCU's Kira Talent recording, Notre Dame Modern Hire) ask one-way recorded responses; others combine panel interviews with practical tasks (group work, written exercises, presentations). Allow 60-90 minutes for a recorded interview or 4-6 hours for a full in-person assessment day.
How the Monash interview actually runs
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.
What they assess
What Monash assessors are scoring: Multi-station assessment lets the school triangulate - assessors compare notes from each station to spot consistent strengths (and red flags).
Common station / question themes
- Group task observation (how you contribute, listen, lead)
- Written ethics scenario
- Panel interview or recorded one-way response
- Portfolio / personal-statement deep dive
- Hot topics in Australian healthcare (Medicare, rural workforce, Indigenous health)
- Academic curiosity questions
Sample questions you might face at Monash
Why medicine?
Tell us about your work experience.
In a group task, what role did you take and why?
How would you handle disagreement with a senior colleague?
Describe a recent biomedical news story and your view on it.
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Book a mock interviewMonth-by-month timeline for 2027 Entry
The cycle runs roughly January 2025 (start of prep) through GEMSAS preference lock and state-TAC deadlines in September 2026, MMIs in October-December 2026, to first-round offers in December 2026 and course start in late January / early February 2027. Here are the milestones you cannot miss.
Decide and start work / clinical experience
Confirm medicine or dentistry as your career direction. Start banking clinical exposure (hospital volunteering, GP shadowing, aged-care or disability-support roles) and non-clinical experience (research assistant, peer tutoring, leadership). Australian schools weight reflection over hours - track what each placement taught you.
Begin UCAT-ANZ / GAMSAT prep
Open your prep window 6-9 months before the test sitting. UCAT-ANZ candidates focus on the 4 sub-tests (Verbal Reasoning, Decision Making, Quantitative Reasoning, Situational Judgement). GAMSAT candidates focus on Section I (Humanities), Section II (Written Communication) and Section III (Sciences) - the Section III sciences gap is the most common reason graduates under-perform.
GAMSAT March sitting
ACER GAMSAT March test date. Scores released early May. Most graduate-entry applicants sit GAMSAT in March of their apply year so results are available before GEMSAS preferences open.
UCAT-ANZ registration + GEMSAS portal info
UCAT-ANZ registration opens (test sat in July). GEMSAS portal information released for graduate-entry medicine. ATAR-tracking begins for current Year 12 applicants.
GEMSAS portal opens + UCAT-ANZ booking
GAMSAT March results released (late May). GEMSAS applications open 1 May and close 29 May across the ten consortium schools (ANU, Deakin, Griffith, Macquarie, Melbourne, Notre Dame Fremantle, Notre Dame Sydney, UQ, UWA, Wollongong). Sydney, Flinders and Monash are NOT in GEMSAS and need separate direct applications. UCAT-ANZ booking deadline is 15 May.
GEMSAS preference entry opens
Rank up to 6 preferences across the 8 GEMSAS schools. ACER GAMSAT September registration window opens (a second sitting option for applicants who under-performed in March).
UCAT-ANZ test window
Take UCAT-ANZ between early July and early August. There is one sitting per cycle - no retake until the following year. Results are released to state TACs (UAC, VTAC, QTAC, SATAC, TISC) in October. State TACs (UAC, VTAC, QTAC, SATAC, TISC) accept undergraduate medicine preferences from July onwards.
GEMSAS preferences lock + direct apps close
GEMSAS interview offers issued in early September; consortium interviews run September-October. ACER GAMSAT September sitting - too late for this cycle, results land mid-November. JCU QTAC + JCU-portal applications close 30 September. State-TAC medicine preferences close 25-30 September. (Bond's QTAC round does not open until January.)
MMI invitations issued
Most graduate-entry consortium schools issue MMI invitations through October. Bond runs its structured interview cycle. UCAT-ANZ results released to state TACs for undergraduate ranking. State TAC preference changes typically close late October.
MMIs run + ATAR results
MMIs run across consortium schools, Bond, JCU and Macquarie through October-December. ATAR results released to state TACs for school-leaver undergraduate applicants. GAMSAT September results released for applicants who sat the second window.
First-round offers
First-round offers released by GEMSAS, state TACs and direct-application schools. Acceptance deadlines are typically within 10 days of offer - reply on time or forfeit the place. Some schools release a second offer round in early January.
Late offers + course start
Late-round offers released through January. Deferral requests due. Orientation week is scheduled by most schools for late January or early February, with first-year teaching commencing late January / early February.
What makes Monash different
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.
Notable research areas
Curriculum (Integrated)
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.
Location: Clayton, Australia
Founded in 1961. Whether the city suits you matters - five or six years is a long commitment. Visit on an open day if you can; current students will be the most honest assessors of culture and clinical placement quality.
Read the full Monash course guide — integrated + problem-based learning, 5 years (direct entry), with placements in metropolitan Melbourne, Gippsland and north-west Victoria.
Application statistics for Monash
Monash intake
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.
How Monash selects, at a glance
Source: Monash Medical School, Monash University admissions data; GEMSAS / state-TAC published statistics; ACER (GAMSAT) and UCAT-ANZ Consortium decile data; recent FOI responses.
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