Early Admission FAQs

UOW Early Admission is our early offer program for students finishing Year 12 in 2025 (HSC or other Australian equivalents). Instead of relying solely on your final year 12 results, we consider your Year 11 performance, skills, and experiences—giving you the chance to secure a place at UOW before your final exams even begin.

All applicants received the outcome of their Early Admission application on Monday 1 September 2025.

• Successful applicants were sent their official UOW offer by email .

• If you applied for two courses, you would have received separate emails for each course preference, with the outcome clearly stated.

• If you were not successful for a particular course, you will have still received an email letting you know. We strongly encourage you to lodge an application to UOW via the Universities Admission Centre (UAC) before the early bird closing date on Tuesday 30 September 2025. Your Early Admission application will also be reassessed once your final Year 12 results are released.

Congratulations on your offer! A place is reserved for you in the UOW course(s) you’ve been offered. There’s no need for you to formally accept the offer.  
  
You can enrol in your course starting Monday, 1 December 2025. Get started now!   

UOW will send you an email with your UOW student number, so be sure to keep that information safe. We’ll stay in touch as your enrolment day approaches.

All successful Early Admission applicants must complete Year 12 and be eligible for the award of the Higher School Certificate (HSC), International Baccalaureate (IB) or interstate equivalent. 

Some individual course offers may have conditions that you will need to clear before you can enrol. We will list any conditions on your offer outcome email.

Congratulations! This means your application has been successful for both of your course preferences, and we are making you an offer to both of them.

You don’t need to accept right away; your place is secure in both courses. However, you can only enrol in one, so you’ll need to decide which course you’d like to study when enrolment opens on Monday 8 December 2025.

We’ll keep in touch with reminders and information to help you prepare for enrolment.

No, you can only enrol in one course. While a place has been reserved for you in each course you’ve been offered, you’ll need to choose which one you’d like to study when enrolment opens on Monday 8 December 2025.

If you’re unsure which course is the best fit, our team is here to help. Get in touch and we’ll talk you through your options.

No.

If you intend on enrolling in the course to which you have been made an offer to via Early Admission – you do not need to participate in a UAC application.  

A place is reserved for you in the UOW course(s) you’ve been offered. There’s no need for you to formally accept the offer. You can enrol in your course starting Monday, 8 December 2025. As that date gets closer, we'll be in touch with more information. In the interim, check out our Get Started page. 

If you have not received an email from UOW with the outcome/s of your Early Admission application/s the best place to start is by checking the Early Admission portal. If you are still unable to locate your outcome, please call UOW Future Students on 1300 367 869 to confirm your outcome and verify that we have the correct email address for your application.   

Please have your Early Admission application number on hand to help the team easily locate your application details.  

This is called an alternative offer. If you don’t meet the admission criteria for your original course preference, we may offer you a different course instead.

Alternative offers are designed to keep you in your chosen study area and may also provide a direct pathway back to your original course preference. They’re made after careful consideration of your application, aligning you with a program we know you can succeed in.

Some alternative offers are delivered directly by UOW, while others are offered through UOW College (UOWC). Read more about UOWC alternative offers below. 

Some alternative Early Admission offer courses are delivered by UOW College (UOWC) as what we call packaged offers.  

A packaged offer gives you a pathway into your UOW degree. You’ll begin with a UOWC course, and once you successfully complete it (and meet UOW’s entry requirements), you’ll progress directly into the UOW degree listed in your offer. In many cases, this is the original course you applied for.

Studying at UOWC means smaller class sizes, more individual support, and a strong focus on building the academic and personal skills you’ll need at university. Classes are structured much like a UOW degree, with lectures, tutorials or labs, and assessments such as essays, group work, practical tasks, and exams.

Put simply: starting at UOWC is a supportive first step that ensures you’re ready to succeed when you transition into your UOW degree.

If you have any questions about your offer or studying at UOW College, please email uowca-future@uow.edu.au or call our team on (02) 4239 2330.

The outcomes are sent by UAC on our behalf, so we are unable to resend them to you, but:

• To see your outcome/s, login to your Early Admission portal. Here, you will see your outcome/s.
• Contact UAC, let them know your UAC number and your Early Admission application number, and ask them to resend your outcome email/s.

A link to the portal is in your outcome email.

To see your outcome/s, log into your early admission portal at uow.uac.edu.au/earlyadmission/

At the Early Admission application portal, there is a 'Forgotten Password' prompt, and a 'Forgotten username' prompt. Use these links to reset your credentials.

If this does not help, you will need to contact UAC for support. You will need to verify your identity, so have your student number, UAC PIN and other details with you.

In most cases - provided the course is offered at your preferred campus - yes.

If you have been offered a course at one of our campuses and now wish to change to another one of our campuses where the course is offered, send an email to future-students@uow.edu.au with the subject line: ‘Campus Change Request’, and include your Early Admission application number.  

Let us know the campus to which you have been made an offer, and the campus you want to transfer to. We will be in touch with advice after we receive your request. In some cases, your application may need to be reassessed because different campuses have different admission requirements.  

Check where your course is offered by using the UOW Course Finder.  

Yes.

There are two separate UOW scholarships that you’ll be made eligible for based on your Early Admission application:

1. If you're attending a high school in Illawarra, Sutherland Shire and Macarthur regions, your Early Admission application makes you eligible for those regions' Principal’s Recommendation Scholarships. Your principal will nominate students based on their responses to the Early Admission application's responses to the Four Indicators of Success.
   
   This scholarship is valued at $5,000 for one year and applies to the first year of your undergraduate degree. There's no separate application required—just submit your Early Admission application by 8 August 2025.
   
   More information is at the UOW Future Students Scholarship page.
2. If you're a high school student from specific regional or remote areas in NSW and you receive an Early Admission offer to study at UOW in 2026, you will automatically be considered for the Country to Coast Scholarship, valued at $5,000 for one year.
   
   This includes offers for bachelor’s degrees, UOW College diplomas, and select Indigenous Access Program (IAP) courses. There's no separate application needed; eligibility is based on your Early Admission offer and enrolment status.
   
   The eligible regional or remote areas are:
   
   
   • Bega Valley
   • Central and Far West NSW
   • Goulburn and South Eastern NSW
   • Eden Monaro
   • Eurobodalla
   • Murray
   • Riverina
   • Shoalhaven
   • Southern Highlands

More information is at the UOW Country to Coast Scholarship page.

There are many other scholarships you can apply for - the two listed above do not require an application if you submit an Early Admission application.

Applications for both the Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation, and the UOW Ramsay Scholarship closed on close Monday, 8 September 2025. Outcomes for the Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation application will be sent in the week of 6 October, 2025.

If you applied for the UOW Ramsay Scholarship, you may be required to sit an interview. 

Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by Friday 19 September 2025, and interviews will be held on Saturday 27 September 2025.

An application to this course is as well as and separate to the Early Admission application. This means, you could potentially be offered three UOW courses – you’ll need to choose which one you want to enrol in when enrolment opens in December.  

Check the UOW Bachelor of Arts in Western Civilisation Course and Scholarship page for more information and important dates.

Yes, you can defer your place at UOW for up to one year. Deferring a course means that you accept the offer of a place, but that you don't plan on starting straight away.     

You will need a UOW Student Number before you can apply to defer. Your Student Number will be sent to you in the weeks after your Early Admission offer. More details on how to defer your offer are available on the UOW Get Started page.  

You cannot defer scholarship or accommodation offers. If you are planning to take a year off before commencing study with UOW, you will need to apply for scholarships and accommodation in the year before you commence study i.e. if you defer your offer until 2027, you will apply for scholarships and accommodation in the latter half of next year. 

No.  

This scholarship has been launched to assist students from high schools in key regional locations to study at UOW in 2026.  

This scholarship is unable to be deferred.

Yes! Many UOW scholarship applications are open until early December.

You can read more about the range of scholarships on offer, how to apply, and any important dates on the Future Student Scholarship page.

Yes. If you received an offer through Early Admission, but you have decided you would like to study a different course at UOW, you can start a UAC application and list this course as one of the five preferences. You will be assessed for this course based on your results and your ATAR. UAC Early bird applications close on Tuesday 30 September 2025. Until that date, the application fee is $82.  

Applying through UAC will not affect your Early Admission place. 

If you intend on enrolling in the course to which you have been made an offer to via Early Admission – you do not need to participate in a UAC application. A place is reserved for you in the UOW course(s) you’ve been offered. There’s no need for you to formally accept the offer. You can enrol in your course starting Monday, 8 December 2025.  

If you received an alternative course offer to the one you originally applied for in your Early Admission application, you will be reassessed for your original course when results and ATARs are released in December. There is nothing you need to do for this to happen, and we will be in touch if we’re able to make you an offer to your original preference. 

The UOW Get Started page will be updated regularly to get you prepared for starting university in 2026, but here’s a few quick points about starting at UOW:  

• After you receive your Early Admission offers(s), we’ll generate a student number for you, and send it to you after you receive your Early Admission offer. Keep it somewhere safe.    
• Enrolment will open from Monday 1 December. We will send you email reminders closer to this date.  
• Orientation (23 – 26 February 2026) will be a great way to meet your classmates and teachers, join clubs and societies, and get to know your UOW campus.  
• Classes begin Monday 2 March 2026.  
• Check our key dates page to start planning your 2026.  
• Check your inbox! We will regularly communicate with you about what we need you to do. We will contact you via the email you used to apply.  

Your first class at UOW will be Monday 2 March 2026. 

Orientation week (O-Week) will take place from 23 – 26 February 2026.

O-Week is a great opportunity to get to know the campus and the amazing opportunities that are here for UOW students, both in and out of the classroom.   

Due to UOW’s Student Privacy & Disclosure statement, information about a student’s Early Admission application will not be disclosed to a third party without written and signed consent.  

As part of the Early Admission application, applicants (Year 12 students) were able to enter the details of a person who they authorised to act on their behalf. If they chose to name someone, that person – and that person only – can be given information about the student's application. 

If you are a parent seeking information regarding your child’s Early Admission application and you are not listed as an authorised person on their application,  a consent to release form will need to be completed by the student before we can respond. When completed, the consent form may be sent via email to futurestudents@uow.edu.au. 

Please note, this consent to release form will apply to students when they are applying for UOW Early Admission. Once they enrol and their status changes to 'current student', a new updated consent form will be required. 

Didn’t find what you were looking for? Get in touch with our team — we’re here to help.

• Call us on 1300 367 869
• Email: future-students@uow.edu.au
• Chat to us now using the live chat prompt on the bottom left of this page.

If you are having difficulty with the application portal, you will need to contact UAC for support.