Undergraduate Applications, Offers and Acceptances 2016

Home State / Interstate

Home state applicants were more likely to receive an offer than interstate applicants in the majority of states and territories. This is consistent with the profile of interstate applications which were mostly for high demand courses with high admissions requirements such as Medicine, Dental Studies and Veterinary Studies, as discussed in Chapter 3.
In all, 84.7% or 254,555 home state applicants were offered a place compared with 30,179 interstate applicants (77.9%). This pattern was broadly consistent in all states and territories although the size of the gap between home state and interstate offer rates varies.
Table : Offers and offer rates by home state/interstate and state and territory, 2016

State/Territory	Offers		Offer rates
	Home state	Interstate	Home state	Interstate
NSW	83,680	9,786	87.2%	75.8%
Vic.	65,514	4,660	80.2%	75.3%
Qld	49,883	6,979	87.8%	81.4%
WA	23,312	2,197	84.4%	79.8%
SA	18,848	1,857	80.0%	83.1%
Tas.	7,377	944	94.3%	83.0%
ACT	4,549	1,179	87.8%	81.1%
NT	1,268	711	71.4%	88.2%
Total (including WA)	254,555	30,179	84.7%	77.9%

5. Field of Education

Nationally, (excluding WA TAC applicants) Society and Culture recorded the largest number of applicants who received offers (64,911 or 23.7% of applicants received offers), followed by Health (61,883 or 22.6% of applicants received offers). Health recorded the largest increase in the number of applicants who received offers (6.8%), followed by Creative Arts (4.5%).
Applicants who applied for Medical Studies (21.2%), Dental Studies (41.5%) and Veterinary Studies (57.1%) were least likely to receive an offer. Out of the broad field of education categories, applicants who applied for Natural and Physical Sciences were most likely to be offered a place (96.4%), followed by Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies (90.9%).
Table : Offers by field of education (excluding WA TAC offers)*, 2015-2016

Field of education	Offers			Offer rates
	2015	2016	% Change	2015	2016	Change (p.p)
Natural and Physical Sciences	27,398	27,465	0.2%	98.8%	96.4%	-2.4
Information Technology	7,767	7,932	2.1%	86.7%	84.8%	-2.0
Engineering and Related Technologies	16,612	15,388	-7.4%	88.9%	86.5%	-2.4
Architecture and Building	6,471	6,512	0.6%	77.7%	80.0%	2.3
Agriculture, Environmental and relatedRelated Studies	4,061	4,143	2.0%	91.5%	90.9%	-0.7
Health	57,921	61,883	6.8%	72.9%	73.4%	0.5
Medical Studies	1,818	1,667	-8.3%	24.4%	21.2%	-3.3
Dental Studies	681	831	22.0%	34.6%	41.5%	6.9
Veterinary	683	1,044	52.9%	51.4%	57.1%	5.7
Nursing	23,669	26,020	9.9%	78.1%	76.9%	-1.3
Health Other	31,070	32,321	4.0%	81.0%	83.4%	2.5
Education	24,885	23,074	-7.3%	86.2%	83.5%	-2.6
Teacher Education	23,689	21,571	-8.9%	85.0%	81.7%	-3.3
Education Other	1,196	1,503	25.7%	116.5%	122.5%	6.0
Management and Commerce	39,254	38,538	-1.8%	90.8%	89.7%	-1.1
Society and Culture	64,220	64,911	1.1%	86.5%	87.0%	0.5
Law	9,192	8,779	-4.5%	71.2%	67.6%	-3.6
Creative Arts	21,792	22,765	4.5%	79.1%	78.7%	-0.4
Mixed field programs	1,264	1,338	5.9%	109.0%	112.2%	3.2
Total (excluding WA)	271,646	273,951	0.8%	84.2%	83.5%	-0.7

Notes: Hospitality is not shown due to the small number of offers, hence the total number of offers does not equal the sum of offers by broad field of education in the above table. Offer rates are expressed as the number of offers as a percentage of number of applicants with at least one valid preference (both TAC and direct applicants data combined) applications. Given that offers may result from lower order preferences, offer rates for certain fields of education may exceed 100%. Society and Culture includes a broad range of subject areas including Behavioural Science, Law, Language & Literature, Economics & Econometrics. *Offers made through WA tertiary admission centre are excluded due to the ‘half-year’ Year 12 cohort effect, but applications made directly to WA universities are included. Totals include missing /unknown postcodes which cannot be assigned to a state/territory.

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