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QS #851-900Melbourne, Australia· QS World University Rankings 2027

Australian Catholic University

What stands out

  • Below most in Australia

    A$33,360a year, lowest here

    Undergraduate fees below 32 of the 39 other universities in Australia we have priced

    Its lowest-fee course is Bachelor of Biomedical Science. The cheapest in the country is SCU, at A$26,000 a year.

    See how it compares ↓
  • Below most in Australia

    A$33,032a year, lowest here

    Master's fees below 11 of the 13 other universities in Australia we have priced

    Its lowest-fee course is Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology. The cheapest in the country is UOW, at ~A$30,636 a year.

    See how it compares ↓

Australian Catholic University, in Melbourne, Australia, has 14 undergraduate courses and 8 master's courses listed on StudyPath. International tuition runs from A$33,032 to A$54,120 a year depending on the course. ACU publishes its own accommodation prices, from A$419 per week. 3 named scholarships are recorded against these courses. Every figure above was read from ACU's own published pages and last checked on 30 September 2026.

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Courses
22
Fees verified
22 / 22
Scholarship entries
39
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International tuition across 22 courses

A$33,032toA$54,120a year

Lowest: Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology MClinExPhys and Master of Public Health MPubHlthHighest: Bachelor of Occupational Therapy BOccThy and 2 others
Applies everywhere on the site, on this device — change it any time.
Not set — every fee below is the international rate. Home and EU/EEA rates are often far lower.

courses

22 courses

Bachelor of Computer Science

BCompSc · 3 years · Computer Science

International tuition

A$39,784 per year

~A$119,400 for the whole 3 years, at today's fee
Verified

2027 · Priced for this course · International students

ACU's 2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) lists this program's annual fee in Australian dollars against its CRICOS code. The schedule says annual fees are estimated on a full-time load of 80 credit points, so the amount payable varies with the number of units taken each semester.

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What you'll study

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Scholarships3 available

  • ACU Executive Dean's International Scholarship

    Up to 20% off annual tuition — recorded by ACU as a partial fee waiver.

    Eligibility: For commencing undergraduate and postgraduate international students who have demonstrated outstanding academic merit in prior studies. ACU classifies the award's scholarship type as "Merit" in its own scholarship browser and states that no formal scholarship application is required.

    ACU calls this its "premier merit-based scholarship ... for academically excellent international students" and its scholarship-browser record for the award lists the scholarship type as Merit. No financial-need element is named, so merit rather than both. No coveragePercentage is recorded: ACU writes "up to 20%", a ceiling rather than a stated reduction, and treating a maximum as the actual discount would produce a reduced-fee figure the university has not promised. Scholarship applications for Semester 1 open 1 August in the preceding year and close 1 March; Semester 2 applications open 1 June and close 31 July.

    Source

  • ACU Flourishing Lives International Scholarship

    A guaranteed 20% tuition fee reduction for the entire duration of the course.

    Eligibility: For eligible international students from the Pacific Islands and Timor Leste applying to study at ACU. No formal scholarship application is required — students who meet the criteria are considered as part of admission.

    Basis left unset. ACU's scholarship browser files this award under the type "Equity", but neither that label nor the award's description states that income, hardship or financial need is actually assessed — eligibility as published turns on citizenship of the Pacific Islands or Timor Leste. Recording need here would be inference. Unlike the Executive Dean's award this one is stated as a guaranteed 20%, not "up to", so the coveragePercentage is recorded.

    Source

  • ACU International Student Accommodation Scholarship

    A 20% remission of rental fees in ACU Student Accommodation properties for a 12-month period.

    Eligibility: For international students living in ACU Student Accommodation while studying an ACU degree in Australia. Open to future, commencing and current students; applications for the round collected here opened 1 August 2025 and closed 1 March 2026.

    This reduces accommodation rent, not tuition, so coveragePercentage is deliberately not set — that field feeds the reduced-tuition figure and would be wrong here. ACU's scholarship browser labels the type "Equity,Accommodation", but the published description says only that it supports students with the cost of ACU accommodation and never states that financial need is assessed, so basis is left unset rather than recorded as need.

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Bachelor of Information Technology

BIT · 3 years · Information Systems, Computer Science

International tuition

A$36,016 per year

~A$108,000 for the whole 3 years, at today's fee
Verified

2027 · Priced for this course · International students

ACU's 2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) lists this program's annual fee in Australian dollars against its CRICOS code. The schedule says annual fees are estimated on a full-time load of 80 credit points, so the amount payable varies with the number of units taken each semester.

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Scholarships3 available

  • ACU Executive Dean's International Scholarship

    Up to 20% off annual tuition — recorded by ACU as a partial fee waiver.

    Eligibility: For commencing undergraduate and postgraduate international students who have demonstrated outstanding academic merit in prior studies. ACU classifies the award's scholarship type as "Merit" in its own scholarship browser and states that no formal scholarship application is required.

    ACU calls this its "premier merit-based scholarship ... for academically excellent international students" and its scholarship-browser record for the award lists the scholarship type as Merit. No financial-need element is named, so merit rather than both. No coveragePercentage is recorded: ACU writes "up to 20%", a ceiling rather than a stated reduction, and treating a maximum as the actual discount would produce a reduced-fee figure the university has not promised. Scholarship applications for Semester 1 open 1 August in the preceding year and close 1 March; Semester 2 applications open 1 June and close 31 July.

    Source

  • ACU Flourishing Lives International Scholarship

    A guaranteed 20% tuition fee reduction for the entire duration of the course.

    Eligibility: For eligible international students from the Pacific Islands and Timor Leste applying to study at ACU. No formal scholarship application is required — students who meet the criteria are considered as part of admission.

    Basis left unset. ACU's scholarship browser files this award under the type "Equity", but neither that label nor the award's description states that income, hardship or financial need is actually assessed — eligibility as published turns on citizenship of the Pacific Islands or Timor Leste. Recording need here would be inference. Unlike the Executive Dean's award this one is stated as a guaranteed 20%, not "up to", so the coveragePercentage is recorded.

    Source

  • ACU International Student Accommodation Scholarship

    A 20% remission of rental fees in ACU Student Accommodation properties for a 12-month period.

    Eligibility: For international students living in ACU Student Accommodation while studying an ACU degree in Australia. Open to future, commencing and current students; applications for the round collected here opened 1 August 2025 and closed 1 March 2026.

    This reduces accommodation rent, not tuition, so coveragePercentage is deliberately not set — that field feeds the reduced-tuition figure and would be wrong here. ACU's scholarship browser labels the type "Equity,Accommodation", but the published description says only that it supports students with the cost of ACU accommodation and never states that financial need is assessed, so basis is left unset rather than recorded as need.

    Source

Bachelor of Biomedical Science

BBiomedSc · 3 years · Biology & Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Immunology, Neuroscience

International tuition

A$33,360 per year

~A$100,100 for the whole 3 years, at today's fee
Verified

2027 · Priced for this course · International students

ACU's 2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) lists this program's annual fee in Australian dollars against its CRICOS code. The schedule says annual fees are estimated on a full-time load of 80 credit points, so the amount payable varies with the number of units taken each semester.

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“Bachelor of Biomedical Science 084789G $33,360”
2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) — Australian Catholic Universityacu.edu.au
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Scholarships3 available

  • ACU Executive Dean's International Scholarship

    Up to 20% off annual tuition — recorded by ACU as a partial fee waiver.

    Eligibility: For commencing undergraduate and postgraduate international students who have demonstrated outstanding academic merit in prior studies. ACU classifies the award's scholarship type as "Merit" in its own scholarship browser and states that no formal scholarship application is required.

    ACU calls this its "premier merit-based scholarship ... for academically excellent international students" and its scholarship-browser record for the award lists the scholarship type as Merit. No financial-need element is named, so merit rather than both. No coveragePercentage is recorded: ACU writes "up to 20%", a ceiling rather than a stated reduction, and treating a maximum as the actual discount would produce a reduced-fee figure the university has not promised. Scholarship applications for Semester 1 open 1 August in the preceding year and close 1 March; Semester 2 applications open 1 June and close 31 July.

    Source

  • ACU Flourishing Lives International Scholarship

    A guaranteed 20% tuition fee reduction for the entire duration of the course.

    Eligibility: For eligible international students from the Pacific Islands and Timor Leste applying to study at ACU. No formal scholarship application is required — students who meet the criteria are considered as part of admission.

    Basis left unset. ACU's scholarship browser files this award under the type "Equity", but neither that label nor the award's description states that income, hardship or financial need is actually assessed — eligibility as published turns on citizenship of the Pacific Islands or Timor Leste. Recording need here would be inference. Unlike the Executive Dean's award this one is stated as a guaranteed 20%, not "up to", so the coveragePercentage is recorded.

    Source

  • ACU International Student Accommodation Scholarship

    A 20% remission of rental fees in ACU Student Accommodation properties for a 12-month period.

    Eligibility: For international students living in ACU Student Accommodation while studying an ACU degree in Australia. Open to future, commencing and current students; applications for the round collected here opened 1 August 2025 and closed 1 March 2026.

    This reduces accommodation rent, not tuition, so coveragePercentage is deliberately not set — that field feeds the reduced-tuition figure and would be wrong here. ACU's scholarship browser labels the type "Equity,Accommodation", but the published description says only that it supports students with the cost of ACU accommodation and never states that financial need is assessed, so basis is left unset rather than recorded as need.

    Source

Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science

BExSpSc · 3 years · Physiology, Public Health

International tuition

A$33,360 per year

~A$100,100 for the whole 3 years, at today's fee
Verified

2027 · Priced for this course · International students

ACU's 2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) lists this program's annual fee in Australian dollars against its CRICOS code. The schedule says annual fees are estimated on a full-time load of 80 credit points, so the amount payable varies with the number of units taken each semester.

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“Bachelor of Exercise and Sports Science 069051G $33,360”
2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) — Australian Catholic Universityacu.edu.au
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Scholarships3 available

  • ACU Executive Dean's International Scholarship

    Up to 20% off annual tuition — recorded by ACU as a partial fee waiver.

    Eligibility: For commencing undergraduate and postgraduate international students who have demonstrated outstanding academic merit in prior studies. ACU classifies the award's scholarship type as "Merit" in its own scholarship browser and states that no formal scholarship application is required.

    ACU calls this its "premier merit-based scholarship ... for academically excellent international students" and its scholarship-browser record for the award lists the scholarship type as Merit. No financial-need element is named, so merit rather than both. No coveragePercentage is recorded: ACU writes "up to 20%", a ceiling rather than a stated reduction, and treating a maximum as the actual discount would produce a reduced-fee figure the university has not promised. Scholarship applications for Semester 1 open 1 August in the preceding year and close 1 March; Semester 2 applications open 1 June and close 31 July.

    Source

  • ACU Flourishing Lives International Scholarship

    A guaranteed 20% tuition fee reduction for the entire duration of the course.

    Eligibility: For eligible international students from the Pacific Islands and Timor Leste applying to study at ACU. No formal scholarship application is required — students who meet the criteria are considered as part of admission.

    Basis left unset. ACU's scholarship browser files this award under the type "Equity", but neither that label nor the award's description states that income, hardship or financial need is actually assessed — eligibility as published turns on citizenship of the Pacific Islands or Timor Leste. Recording need here would be inference. Unlike the Executive Dean's award this one is stated as a guaranteed 20%, not "up to", so the coveragePercentage is recorded.

    Source

  • ACU International Student Accommodation Scholarship

    A 20% remission of rental fees in ACU Student Accommodation properties for a 12-month period.

    Eligibility: For international students living in ACU Student Accommodation while studying an ACU degree in Australia. Open to future, commencing and current students; applications for the round collected here opened 1 August 2025 and closed 1 March 2026.

    This reduces accommodation rent, not tuition, so coveragePercentage is deliberately not set — that field feeds the reduced-tuition figure and would be wrong here. ACU's scholarship browser labels the type "Equity,Accommodation", but the published description says only that it supports students with the cost of ACU accommodation and never states that financial need is assessed, so basis is left unset rather than recorded as need.

    Source

Bachelor of Nutrition Science

BNutrSc · Biology & Life Sciences, Biochemistry

International tuition

A$33,360 per year

Verified

2027 · Priced for this course · International students

ACU's 2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) lists this program's annual fee in Australian dollars against its CRICOS code. The schedule says annual fees are estimated on a full-time load of 80 credit points, so the amount payable varies with the number of units taken each semester.

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“Bachelor of Nutrition Science 094690B $33,360”
2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) — Australian Catholic Universityacu.edu.au
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Scholarships3 available

  • ACU Executive Dean's International Scholarship

    Up to 20% off annual tuition — recorded by ACU as a partial fee waiver.

    Eligibility: For commencing undergraduate and postgraduate international students who have demonstrated outstanding academic merit in prior studies. ACU classifies the award's scholarship type as "Merit" in its own scholarship browser and states that no formal scholarship application is required.

    ACU calls this its "premier merit-based scholarship ... for academically excellent international students" and its scholarship-browser record for the award lists the scholarship type as Merit. No financial-need element is named, so merit rather than both. No coveragePercentage is recorded: ACU writes "up to 20%", a ceiling rather than a stated reduction, and treating a maximum as the actual discount would produce a reduced-fee figure the university has not promised. Scholarship applications for Semester 1 open 1 August in the preceding year and close 1 March; Semester 2 applications open 1 June and close 31 July.

    Source

  • ACU Flourishing Lives International Scholarship

    A guaranteed 20% tuition fee reduction for the entire duration of the course.

    Eligibility: For eligible international students from the Pacific Islands and Timor Leste applying to study at ACU. No formal scholarship application is required — students who meet the criteria are considered as part of admission.

    Basis left unset. ACU's scholarship browser files this award under the type "Equity", but neither that label nor the award's description states that income, hardship or financial need is actually assessed — eligibility as published turns on citizenship of the Pacific Islands or Timor Leste. Recording need here would be inference. Unlike the Executive Dean's award this one is stated as a guaranteed 20%, not "up to", so the coveragePercentage is recorded.

    Source

  • ACU International Student Accommodation Scholarship

    A 20% remission of rental fees in ACU Student Accommodation properties for a 12-month period.

    Eligibility: For international students living in ACU Student Accommodation while studying an ACU degree in Australia. Open to future, commencing and current students; applications for the round collected here opened 1 August 2025 and closed 1 March 2026.

    This reduces accommodation rent, not tuition, so coveragePercentage is deliberately not set — that field feeds the reduced-tuition figure and would be wrong here. ACU's scholarship browser labels the type "Equity,Accommodation", but the published description says only that it supports students with the cost of ACU accommodation and never states that financial need is assessed, so basis is left unset rather than recorded as need.

    Source

Bachelor of Psychological Science

BPsychSc · 3 years · Neuroscience, Public Health

International tuition

A$33,360 per year

~A$100,100 for the whole 3 years, at today's fee
Verified

2027 · Priced for this course · International students

ACU's 2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) lists this program's annual fee in Australian dollars against its CRICOS code. The schedule says annual fees are estimated on a full-time load of 80 credit points, so the amount payable varies with the number of units taken each semester.

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“Bachelor of Psychological Science 078173A $33,360”
2027 Schedule of tuition fees (International) — Australian Catholic Universityacu.edu.au
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Scholarships3 available

  • ACU Executive Dean's International Scholarship

    Up to 20% off annual tuition — recorded by ACU as a partial fee waiver.

    Eligibility: For commencing undergraduate and postgraduate international students who have demonstrated outstanding academic merit in prior studies. ACU classifies the award's scholarship type as "Merit" in its own scholarship browser and states that no formal scholarship application is required.

    ACU calls this its "premier merit-based scholarship ... for academically excellent international students" and its scholarship-browser record for the award lists the scholarship type as Merit. No financial-need element is named, so merit rather than both. No coveragePercentage is recorded: ACU writes "up to 20%", a ceiling rather than a stated reduction, and treating a maximum as the actual discount would produce a reduced-fee figure the university has not promised. Scholarship applications for Semester 1 open 1 August in the preceding year and close 1 March; Semester 2 applications open 1 June and close 31 July.

    Source

  • ACU Flourishing Lives International Scholarship

    A guaranteed 20% tuition fee reduction for the entire duration of the course.

    Eligibility: For eligible international students from the Pacific Islands and Timor Leste applying to study at ACU. No formal scholarship application is required — students who meet the criteria are considered as part of admission.

    Basis left unset. ACU's scholarship browser files this award under the type "Equity", but neither that label nor the award's description states that income, hardship or financial need is actually assessed — eligibility as published turns on citizenship of the Pacific Islands or Timor Leste. Recording need here would be inference. Unlike the Executive Dean's award this one is stated as a guaranteed 20%, not "up to", so the coveragePercentage is recorded.

    Source

  • ACU International Student Accommodation Scholarship

    A 20% remission of rental fees in ACU Student Accommodation properties for a 12-month period.

    Eligibility: For international students living in ACU Student Accommodation while studying an ACU degree in Australia. Open to future, commencing and current students; applications for the round collected here opened 1 August 2025 and closed 1 March 2026.

    This reduces accommodation rent, not tuition, so coveragePercentage is deliberately not set — that field feeds the reduced-tuition figure and would be wrong here. ACU's scholarship browser labels the type "Equity,Accommodation", but the published description says only that it supports students with the cost of ACU accommodation and never states that financial need is assessed, so basis is left unset rather than recorded as need.

    Source

How ACU compares

Against the other universities in Australia on StudyPath, using each one's verified international fees and its own published housing prices. Universities are only compared with others charging in the same currency (and, for housing, for the same period), so no figure here has been converted. A ~ marks a year worked out from a per-term or whole-course fee.

ACU's lowest undergraduate fee for international students is A$33,360 a year, for Bachelor of Biomedical Science. Of the 39 other universities in Australia we list with undergraduate fees in AUD, 32 charge more at their lowest, 7 charge less. Their lowest undergraduate fees run from A$26,000 (SCU) to ~A$75,120 (Bond).

ACU's lowest master's fee for international students is A$33,032 a year, for Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology. Of the 13 other universities in Australia we list with master's fees in AUD, 11 charge more at their lowest, 2 charge less. Their lowest master's fees run from ~A$30,636 (UOW) to ~A$83,500 (UNSW).

Student housing. ACU's own lowest published rate is A$419 per week. Of the 34 other universities in Australia we list that publish housing per week in AUD, 2 charge more, 32 charge less. Their lowest published rates run from A$85 (UniSC) to A$490 (UWA).

Living costs. The living-cost figure for a student visa to Australia is A$29,710 12 months of living costs, on top of tuition (figure for 10 May 2024; read 19 Aug 2026 from immi.homeaffairs.gov.au). The authority attaches conditions that can change this amount; see them in full on student finance.

By subject
SubjectLowest fee hereAgainst other universities in AustraliaTheir lowest fees
Biology & Life SciencesundergraduateA$33,360Bachelor of Biomedical Science32 of 36 charge moreA$26,000 to ~A$75,120
Computer ScienceundergraduateA$36,016Bachelor of Information Technology26 of 35 charge moreA$26,000 to A$61,000
AccountingundergraduateA$36,016Bachelor of Accounting and Finance21 of 29 charge moreA$26,000 to ~A$75,120
Business & ManagementundergraduateA$36,016Bachelor of Business19 of 28 charge moreA$26,000 to ~A$75,120
BiochemistryundergraduateA$33,360Bachelor of Biomedical Science21 of 23 charge moreA$26,000 to ~A$68,102
MicrobiologyundergraduateA$33,360Bachelor of Biomedical Science21 of 23 charge moreA$26,000 to A$61,000

Subjects taught at ACU

Each one opens every course in that subject, at every university we hold, with the same verified fees.

Where these figures come from

5 sentences from ACU's own site each back several figures above. Each is quoted once here; every course that uses one still opens it and links to its own source page.

  1. Used for scholarship on 13 courses

    “ACU International Student Accommodation Scholarship The ACU International Student Accommodation Scholarship supports international students with the cost of living in ACU Student Accommodation. It provides a 20% remission of rental fees in ACU Student Accommodation properties for a 12-month period.”
    International student scholarships | ACUacu.edu.auread 31 Aug 2026
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  2. Used for scholarship on 13 courses

    “ACU Executive Dean's International Scholarship This premier merit-based scholarship offers up to 20% off annual tuition* for academically excellent international students.”
    International student scholarships | ACUacu.edu.auread 31 Aug 2026
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  3. Used for scholarship on 13 courses

    “ACU Flourishing Lives International Scholarship This scholarship guarantees a 20% tuition fee reduction* for the entire course duration for eligible students from the Pacific Islands, and Timor Leste.”
    International student scholarships | ACUacu.edu.auread 31 Aug 2026
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  4. Used for home fee on 5 courses

    “Average first year fee* $10898 CSP”
    The same sentence appears on 5 pagesacu.edu.auread 3 Sept 2026 to 11 Sept 2026
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  5. Used for home fee on 3 courses

    “Average first year fee* $12934 CSP”
    The same sentence appears on 3 pagesacu.edu.auread 11 Sept 2026
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More about ACU

Student body

QS's own figures · QS World University Rankings 2027

Students
24,609
International students
2,946
≈12% of the student body (worked out here)
Faculty
723
International faculty
34%

These come from QS, not the university's own pages. Unlike every fee and deadline on this site. QS is the primary source for its own rankings and measurements, which is why it is cited here and rejected everywhere else.

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“Students & Staff Total students 24,609 UG students 87.6% PG students 12.4% International students 2,946 UG students 76.7% PG students 23.3% Total faculty staff 723 Domestic staff 66% Int'l staff 34%”
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About & contact

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Accommodation

A$419–A$509per week

UniLodge Melbourne CBD — 2026 room rates ACU publishes for its Melbourne students, by room type and contract length. ACU states it neither owns nor directly manages any of the accommodation it lists; UniLodge provides it under agreement with ACU

  • Four-bedroom multi-share (private bedroom, two shared bathrooms) — full year, 52 weeksA$419
  • Four-bedroom multi-share (private bedroom, two shared bathrooms) — block, 40 weeksA$449
  • Studio room with private ensuite and kitchenette, 13m2 — full year, 52 weeksA$499
  • Studio room with private ensuite and kitchenette, 13m2 — block, 40 weeksA$509

Rental fees are inclusive of water, electricity and gas, with unlimited internet, free residential life programme membership and free access to a cinema room, study rooms and game rooms. ACU publishes two further Melbourne properties on the same page at its own negotiated student rates: UniLodge Melbourne Central, six-bedroom multi-share, $505 per week for a 40-week block or $485 for a 52-week full year (each bedroom has a private ensuite); and UniLodge Victoria University, six-bedroom multi-share, $327 per week for 40 weeks or $270 for 52 weeks — the cheapest option ACU lists, which it describes as great value in exchange for a longer commute. ACU's disclaimer applies to all of them: none is owned or directly managed by the university.

Published by the university itself, not a live listings price. Actual cost depends on room type, availability and when you apply.

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“2026 room rates for UniLodge Melbourne CBD Room type Block weekly (40 weeks) Full year weekly (52 weeks) Studio room $509 $499 Four-bedroom multi-share $449 $419”
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Applying to Australia from abroad: what catches students out

Deadlines, results and start dates, in the words of the Department of Home Affairs. Check them before you choose, not at the last step.

Student visa (subclass 500)

  • From outside Australia, apply with enough time before your course starts. Home Affairs' processing-time tool shows how long recent applications took.
    Their words
    ✓ Word for wordRead 19 Aug 2026
    “Outside Australia - Apply for your visa with enough time before your course starts. For an indication of processing times for this visa, use the visa processing time guide tool.”
    Student visa (subclass 500) - Immigration and citizenshipimmi.homeaffairs.gov.au
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  • Under the Genuine Student requirement, you must show that studying in Australia is the main reason you are applying.
    Their words
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    “be able to demonstrate an understanding that studying in Australia is the primary reason for applying for a student visa.”
    Genuine Student requirement - Immigration and citizenshipimmi.homeaffairs.gov.au
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  • Hoping to apply for permanent residence later does not count against you.
    Their words
    ✓ Word for wordRead 11 Oct 2026
    “The GS requirement recognises that genuine students may develop skills Australia needs and may later choose to apply for permanent residence. Future intentions of this kind do not count against an applicant under GS.”
    Genuine Student requirement - Immigration and citizenshipimmi.homeaffairs.gov.au
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The money you must prove for the visa, health cover and the work limits: further down, in “After you graduate” ↓

After you graduate

Rules read 16 Aug 2026. Check the current rules, this may be out of date

What Australia's own immigration authority currently publishes. Not a ranking, not a guarantee, and not the same as what any agent or forum will tell you. Whether someone actually obtains residence depends on occupation, points, funds and policy that can change between application and graduation.

Money you must prove before the visa

A$29,71012 months of living costs, for the student alone — course fees, travel and any school fees for accompanying children are counted separately and on top

Shown as a balance in a bank account. You keep control of it.

Figure published for: 10 May 2024 — the Department's own announcement is headed 'From 10 May 2024, the amount of money that Student and Student Guardian visa applicants need to have to be eligible for the visa is increasing', raising the primary applicant's figure from AUD24,505 to AUD29,710, and says applications lodged before that date are assessed under the earlier requirement. Still the published figure on the Subclass 500 page when read on 19 August 2026. It is set by Legislative Instrument LIN 19/198 as amended and is pegged to 75 per cent of the national minimum wage, so it moves when that wage does. This amount is revised regularly, so check it again before you transfer anything.

AUD29,710 is living costs only. The Department requires the applicant to hold enough for travel, 12 months of course fees (or the total if the course is shorter, less anything already paid and evidenced), 12 months of living costs for the student and anyone coming with them, and school fees for any school-age child. Family members add to it: AUD10,394 for a partner, AUD4,449 for a child, and at least AUD13,502 a year in school costs per school-age child. Travel costs to include as a guide are AUD2,000 applying from outside Australia, AUD2,500 from East or Southern Africa, AUD3,000 from West Africa, AUD1,000 applying inside Australia. A shorter stay is pro-rated: annual cost divided by 365, multiplied by the days intended. An alternative to showing savings is evidence that a parent or partner earned a personal annual income of at least AUD87,856 in the 12 months before applying, or AUD102,500 if family members come too — evidenced by official government documents such as a tax assessment less than 12 months old, not by bank statements or an employer's letter. Genuine access must also be proved: a single-day bank balance certificate is explicitly not enough, because it does not show how the funds accumulated. Secondary exchange students may instead give a completed AASES form, and DFAT or Department of Defence students a letter of support. Whether evidence must be attached up front depends on the Document Checklist Tool for the applicant's passport country and provider — but the Department may still ask for it later, and subsequent entrants must always attach it.

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“12-month living costs are for: students - AUD29,710 partners coming with you - AUD10,394 a child coming with you - AUD4,449.”
Subclass 500 Student visa - Department of Home Affairs (Australia)immi.homeaffairs.gov.au
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Work during study

Student visa (subclass 500) holders may work up to 48 hours per fortnight while their course is in session — a limit that applies during study terms and semesters (including exam periods), before the course starts (unless a different visa already permits work), and when taking a term-break course that counts toward the main course (unless CRICOS requires it). Working more than 48 hours a fortnight during these periods breaches the visa condition and can lead to visa cancellation. At other times — including scheduled course breaks — there is no work-hour limit on a student visa. A student who has started a Master's by Research or Doctoral degree has no work-hour limit at any time once the course has started.

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“Student visa holders have working rights while in Australia. The number of work hours allowed on a Student visa in Australia is a maximum of 48 hours per fortnight . If you fail to comply with this visa condition , you may have your student visa cancelled. This limit on work hours applies to all of the following times: during study terms and semesters, including when exams are being held before your course starts (unless you hold a different visa that permits you to work prior) when you take another course that will count towards your main course during a term break – unless this is a mandatory requirement as listed under CRICOS for your main course. At other times, you can work unlimited hours on a Student visa, as follows: during scheduled course breaks”
Student visa (subclass 500) | Study Australiastudyaustralia.gov.au
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Post-study work visa

Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485) — Post-Higher Education Work stream . Up to 3 years
For international students who have recently graduated with a degree-level qualification or higher (bachelor's, master's or doctoral) in a CRICOS-registered course from an Australian institution. Applicants must generally be aged 35 or under and have held a Student visa in the last 6 months. Grants the right to live, work (unrestricted hours, any sector) and study in Australia temporarily, usually for between 2 and 3 years depending on the qualification (Hong Kong and British National (Overseas) passport holders may be granted up to 5 years). A separate, shorter Post-Vocational Education Work stream (up to 18 months) exists for associate degree, diploma or trade-qualification graduates whose qualification is tied to a nominated occupation on the skilled occupation list.

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“Post-Higher Education Work stream This visa is for international students who have recently graduated with a degree from an Australian institution. It lets you live, work and study in Australia temporarily. You can work in Australia. You can bring your family with you. You need a recent degree in CRICOS-registered course . This stream is for applicants meeting the Temporary Graduate visa study requirement with a degree level qualification or higher. Stay Usually between 2 and 3 years, depending on your qualification.”
Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485) | Study Australiastudyaustralia.gov.au
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Route to permanent residence

Australia does not grant permanent residence automatically at the end of a Temporary Graduate visa. A graduate must separately qualify for one of the permanent or provisional skilled-visa programs gated by the country's combined list of eligible skilled occupations — for example the points-tested Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), the state/territory-nominated Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190), employer-sponsored routes such as the Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186), or the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) Core Skills Stream, which an eligible Temporary Graduate visa holder who finds skilled work may be able to apply for while still in Australia. Each program requires the applicant's nominated occupation to appear on the relevant occupation list for that specific visa.

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“Individuals with qualifications to work or train in an eligible skilled occupation in Australia, and can meet all other requirements, may apply to the below visas: Employer Nomination Scheme (ENS) visa (subclass 186) Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (RSMS) visa (subclass 187) - Temporary Residence Transition Stream Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) – Points-tested stream Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) Training visa (subclass 407) Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) – Core Skills Stream Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485) Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489) Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491) Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 494) .”
Skilled occupation list - Immigration and citizenshipimmi.homeaffairs.gov.au
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Route to citizenship

Australian citizenship by conferral is granted by the Department of Home Affairs, the same department that runs the visa system. The general residence requirement is having lived in Australia on a valid visa for the 4 years immediately before applying, holding a permanent visa (or a New Zealand citizen's Special Category subclass 444 visa) for the last 12 months of that period, and not having been absent from Australia for more than 12 months in total across the 4 years, including no more than 90 days in the 12 months immediately before applying. Applicants must also meet separate character, 'knowledge of Australia,' English-language and 'close and continuing link to Australia' requirements (most commonly demonstrated through the citizenship test). Australia has permitted dual citizenship since April 2002: on the Department's own dual-citizen travel page it states plainly that Australia allows a person to have dual citizenship, while noting some other countries do not, so becoming an Australian citizen does not require renouncing another nationality.

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“have been living in Australia on a valid visa for 4 years immediately before the day you apply hold a permanent visa or an SCV for the last 12 months immediately before the day you apply and not have been absent from Australia for more than 12 months in total in the past 4 years, including no more than 90 days in total in the 12 months immediately before applying.”
Become an Australian citizen (by conferral) | Immigration and citizenshipimmi.homeaffairs.gov.au
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What the government currently prioritises

Australia's skilled-visa programs gate eligibility by occupation, using a combined list of eligible skilled occupations coded to the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO). Depending on the specific visa, the relevant list is the Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL, used for the Skills in Demand visa's Core Skills Stream), the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL) or Short-term Skilled Occupation List (STSOL) used by the points-tested and state/territory-nominated skilled visas, or a Regional Occupation List (ROL) for regional visas. Which list an occupation sits on — or whether it is on any list at all — can change; the current lists are published in each visa's legislative instrument rather than in one fixed table on this page. Reading the Department's own published CSOL directly (a 456-occupation ANZSCO table) confirms engineering and ICT occupations are heavily represented, as StudyPath’s brief expected: named engineering occupations include Chemical, Materials, Civil, Geotechnical, Structural, Transport, Electrical, Electronics, Industrial, Mechanical, Production/Plant, Mining, Petroleum, Aeronautical, Agricultural, Biomedical and Environmental Engineer, plus Engineering Technologist; named ICT occupations include ICT Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Web Developer, Analyst Programmer, Developer Programmer, Software Engineer, Software Tester, Cyber Security Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Penetration Tester, Database Administrator, Systems Administrator, several named cyber-security specialisms, and Computer Network and Systems Engineer. Being on the CSOL is necessary but not sufficient on its own — which visa (if any) it actually unlocks depends on the specific programme (see residencyRoute) — and it is a list of eligible occupations, not a job or salary guarantee.

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“109 233111 Chemical Engineer 110 233112 Materials Engineer 111 233211 Civil Engineer 112 233212 Geotechnical Engineer 113 233213 Quantity Surveyor 114 233214 Structural Engineer 115 233215 Transport Engineer 116 233311 Electrical Engineer 117 233411 Electronics Engineer 118 233511 Industrial Engineer 119 233512 Mechanical Engineer”
The Core Skills Occupation List - Department of Home Affairsimmi.homeaffairs.gov.au
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The Skills in Demand (subclass 482) visa replaced the Temporary Skill Shortage (subclass 482) visa on 7 December 2024, and the Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485) was restructured into named streams — Post-Higher Education Work (degree-level graduates) and Post-Vocational Education Work (associate degree/diploma/trade graduates tied to a nominated occupation) — with shorter maximum stays than the visa previously granted. Some government-linked pages not yet updated for that restructure still refer to a 'Post-Study Work stream' by its pre-restructure name; this entry uses the current stream name and durations as published on the pages cited above. Read 16 August 2026 — Australia's post-study work settings have changed more than once in the last two years and should be re-checked before anyone relies on this. Deepening pass, 17 August 2026: inDemandOccupations re-cited directly to the Department of Home Affairs' own published Core Skills Occupation List PDF (immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/Documents/core-sol.pdf, 456 occupations) rather than only its own overview page, to name the actual engineering and ICT occupations on it. The PDF returned only raw binary bytes to automated fetching (HTTP 403); it was downloaded with curl and converted with pdftotext (poppler-utils, -enc UTF-8 -layout), then archived in that converted form, as was done for the Italian and Korean government PDFs. citizenshipRoute added 17 August 2026: the 4-year residence quote is cited to immi.homeaffairs.gov.au's own 'Become an Australian citizen (by conferral)' page — its Eligibility tab is a set of nested accordions with no static HTML text, so it was captured with a browser capture after expanding the Residence requirement panel. The dual-citizenship statement ('Australia allows a person to have dual citizenship. Some countries do not.') was separately archived from the same Department's entering-and-leaving-australia/traveling-as-a-dual-citizen page (1097061b02b91fa4, also browser-captured) rather than folded into one citation, since the two facts sit on different pages of the same official domain. naturalisationStatus set to 'published-route' on 18 August 2026: the authority already cited under citizenshipRoute publishes criteria a foreign resident could actually follow, which is the only claim this field makes. It is deliberately not a judgement about how attainable that route is in practice. studentVisaFunds added 19 August 2026. Capture note, because it is unusual: immi.homeaffairs.gov.au assembles this page client-side from a JSON payload, so plain HTTP fetching returns a shell with none of the financial-capacity content in it — the project's own fetcher produced a 3,480-character snapshot containing no figures at all. The figure was therefore read in a real browser, with the 'Step by step' tab and the 'Evidence you have enough money for your stay' section expanded, and the rendered text archived from a browser capture (captured in a browser). Nothing else in the dataset cited the earlier HTTP snapshot of this URL, so nothing was disturbed by replacing it. The effective date comes from the Department's own announcement of the change, archived the same way (immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/news-media/archive/article?itemId=1196), which prints the before-and-after table: AUD24,505 before 10 May 2024, AUD29,710 after. mechanism is bank-balance because Home Affairs names no single instrument — deposits with a financial institution, a government or bank loan, or a scholarship are all accepted — and because its guidance is specifically about a balance being shown to be genuinely held and accumulated over time. studyaustralia.gov.au, also allowlisted, was checked and publishes no figure on its living-costs or visa pages.

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