Admission criteria
To be eligible for admission, an applicant is required to have:
- an Australian bachelor's degree with honours or a graduate diploma or a graduate certificate or an equivalent qualification or
- an Australian bachelor's degree in a relevant field (eg. medicine and health fields such as dentistry, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, physiotherapy or science, mathematics, veterinary science, or humanities and social sciences fields such as international relations, international development, economics, political science, communication and journalism, or education, or civil engineering, or law) or equivalent qualification or
- an Australian bachelor's degree in an unrelated field and two years professional work experience in health or international development.
For qualifications awarded outside Australia, equivalencies and admission criteria are determined based on the country, institution and qualification.
Commonwealth Supported Places
There are a limited number of Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) available for students commencing their degree in Semester 1. Therefore, only Semester 1 applications received by 1 December of the previous year will be considered for a CSP.
Please submit your CV with relevant global/public health work experience and your academic transcript, as these are used to rank candidates. If you do not submit these documents then we cannot assess your eligibility.
Credit for previous study
For more information about the University’s credit policy, please see the Credit for Previous Studies page.