Undergraduate Applications, Offers and Acceptances 2016

TAC Offers – Prior Education

Nationally, TAC offers to current Year 12 applicants increased by 5.6% in 2016. Excluding WA, offers to Year 12 applicants increased by 3.0% in 2016. Offers to Year 12 applicants increased in all states and territories. WA recorded the largest increase in offers to Year 12 applicants (49.7%), followed by Tasmania (6.9%) and NSW/ACT (6.3%). Queensland (1.8%), Victoria (0.6%) and SA/NT (0.1%) recorded below average growth in Year 12 offers in 2016. The significant growth in Year 12 offers in WA is mainly due to the ‘half-Year 12’ cohort effect.
Offers to non-Year 12 applicants decreased by 5.8% nationally in 2016. Excluding WA, offers to non-Year 12 applicants decreased by 5.7% in 2016. Offers to non-Year 12 applicants decreased in all states and territories, except Tasmania which increased by 19.3% and Queensland which increased by 2.2%. NSW/ACT recorded the largest decrease in offers to non-Year 12 applicants (-16.0%), followed by SA/NT (-11.4%), WA (-9.7%) and

Victoria (-9.3%).

Table : TAC offers by Current Year 12 status by state and territory, 2015 and 2016

State/Territory	Current Year 12			Non-Year 12
	2015	2016	% Change	2015	2016	% Change
NSW/ACT	42,396	45,061	6.3%	29,149	24,484	-16.0%
Vic.	37,617	37,852	0.6%	19,256	17,471	-9.3%
Qld	25,126	25,583	1.8%	21,118	21,586	2.2%
WA	7,025	10,515	49.7%	4,027	3,636	-9.7%
SA/NT	10,521	10,533	0.1%	11,775	10,427	-11.4%
Tas.	2,486	2,657	6.9%	10,843	12,941	19.3%
Australia	125,171	132,201	5.6%	96,168	90,545	-5.8%
Australia (excluding WA)	118,146	121,686	3.0%	92,141	86,909	-5.7%

Nationally applications from Year 12 applicants were more likely to generate an offer than applications from non-Year 12 applicants. In 2016, the Year 12 offer rate was 84.8% compared with the non-Year 12 offer rate of 76.6%. In 2016, Year 12 offer rates were higher than the non-Year 12 offer rates in all states and territories except Tasmania.
Table : TAC offer rates by Current Year 12 status by state and territory, 2015 and 2016

State/Territory	Current Year 12			Non-Year 12
	2015	2016	Change (p.p)	2015	2016	Change (p.p)
NSW/ACT	85.5%	88.9%	3.4	81.9%	79.1%	-2.7
Vic.	81.2%	80.7%	-0.5	76.1%	73.8%	-2.3
Qld	87.5%	87.5%	0.1	80.7%	76.6%	-4.2
WA	82.1%	82.8%	0.7	81.8%	80.4%	-1.3
SA/NT	79.7%	80.1%	0.3	66.5%	66.0%	-0.5
Tas.	79.0%	81.0%	2.0	85.4%	85.5%	0.1
Australia	83.7%	84.8%	1.1	78.6%	76.6%	-2.0
Australia (excluding WA)	83.8%	84.9%	1.1	78.4%	76.4%	-2.0

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