Undergraduate Applications, Offers and Acceptances 2016

Current Year 12 Applicants

Current Year 12 applicants were less likely to accept an offer compared with non-Year 12 applicants in 2016 (acceptance rate of 73.6% compared with 78.4% respectively).

4. Gender

Acceptance rates differed slightly by gender. Of all male applicants who received an offer, 77.6% accepted an offer, compared with 75.9% of female applicants.

5. Field of Education

Health recorded the largest increase in acceptances (5.4%). This was followed by Information Technology (2.3%) and Creative Arts (1.5%). Engineering and Related Technologies (-10.0%) recorded the largest decrease in acceptances, followed by Management and Commerce (-5.1%). Acceptance rates were relatively low for Dental Studies (67.5%) and Veterinary Studies (70.6%).
Table : Acceptances and acceptance rates by field of education (excluding WA TAC data)*,

2015 and 2016

Field of education	Acceptances			Acceptance rates
	2015	2016	% Change	2015	2016	Change (p.p)
Natural and Physical Sciences	21,316	20,845	-2.2%	77.8%	75.9%	-1.9
Information Technology	6,172	6,311	2.3%	79.5%	79.6%	0.1
Engineering and Related Technologies	13,692	12,329	-10.0%	82.4%	80.1%	-2.3
Architecture and Building	5,105	4,900	-4.0%	78.9%	75.2%	-3.6
Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies	2,895	2,883	-0.4%	71.3%	69.6%	-1.7
Health	45,122	47,549	5.4%	77.9%	76.8%	-1.1
Medical Studies	1,575	1,470	-6.7%	86.6%	88.2%	1.5
Dental Studies	489	561	14.7%	71.8%	67.5%	-4.3
Veterinary	517	737	42.6%	75.7%	70.6%	-5.1
Nursing	18,747	20,631	10.0%	79.2%	79.3%	0.1
Health Other	23,803	24,150	1.5%	76.6%	74.7%	-1.9
Education	19,701	17,456	-11.4%	79.2%	75.7%	-3.5
Teacher Education	18,850	16,541	-12.2%	79.6%	76.7%	-2.9
Education Other	851	915	7.5%	71.2%	60.9%	-10.3
Management and Commerce	31,375	29,786	-5.1%	79.9%	77.3%	-2.6
Society and Culture**	49,329	49,252	-0.2%	76.8%	75.9%	-0.9
Law	7,401	6,743	-8.9%	80.5%	76.8%	-3.7
Creative Arts	17,194	17,457	1.5%	78.9%	76.7%	-2.2
Mixed field programs	984	991	0.7%	77.8%	74.1%	-3.8
Total (excluding WA)	212,886	209,761	-1.5%	78.4%	76.6%	-1.8

Note: Hospitality and Mixed Field Programs are not shown due to the small number of applications/offers, hence the total number of acceptances does not equal the sum of acceptances by broad field of education in the above table.

* Acceptances made through WA tertiary admission centre are excluded due to the ‘half-year’ Year 12 cohort effect, but applications made directly by WA residents are included. Totals include missing /unknown postcodes which cannot be assigned to a state/territory.

** Society and Culture includes a broad range of subject areas including Behavioural Science, Law, Language & Literature, Economics & Econometrics.

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