Every student, every course: Search our database of first-round university offers

Tens of thousands of Victorian school-leavers are celebrating this morning as more than 47,500 offers of places in university, TAFE and private college courses for 2025 land in inboxes around the state.

You can search your name in the table below to see any first-round Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre course offers. This is not an exhaustive list of all first-round offers as some students declined to have this information published.

The VTAC data encompasses 2092 courses offered at 31 tertiary institutions in Victoria. If you missed out on a first-round offer, VTAC will release its second round of offers on January 10.

The hardest course to get into this year is dental science (honours) at La Trobe University’s Bendigo Campus. It has a minimum selection rank of 99.90

The minimum selection rank is a student’s ATAR plus any additional adjustments, such as special consideration, that they have been awarded.

Dental courses were also the second-hardest courses to get into, with biomedicine/dental surgery and science/dental surgery at the University of Melbourne both requiring a minimum selection rank of 99.85.

Gisele Hennequin is one of 47,000 school leavers to get a university offer.Credit: Wayne Taylor

Arts/law, commerce/law and science/law at the University of Melbourne were next on the list, all requiring a minimum selection rank of 99.80.

But for more than half the courses offered through VTAC, no figure is provided as the minimum selection rank. Those courses often rely on different or surplus selection requirements, such as interviews, portfolios or additional aptitude tests.

Minimum selection requirements usually remain steady from year to year, but changes to a course’s popularity among prospective students can cause dramatic shifts.

In 2024, the minimum selection rank for veterinary nursing at La Trobe University’s Melbourne campus was 68.6, but this year that rose to 95.9.

Conversely, last year’s minimum selection rank for a creative arts (theatre major) at Deakin University’s Melbourne campus was 76.85. This year it was 60.25.

Some courses, like arts at the University of Melbourne – which recorded a minimum selection rank of 87 this year – science at Monash University (82) and nursing at the Australian Catholic University’s Melbourne campus (65), are consistently in demand and regularly receive hundreds of first-preference applications.

McKinnon Secondary College graduate Gisele Hennequin achieved an impressive ATAR of 98 from her VCE exams, so she knows she is off to uni next year, but she will not be sure until Monday morning of where she is going.

“My first preference is biomedicine at Melbourne,” she said.

A medical course is also on the shopping list for the 18-year-old, who has set her sights on a career in psychology, but she said there were many potential ways to get there.

“I’ve got biomedical studies at Monash as well, and then I’ve also got science degrees at both Melbourne and Monash and then, when I think further down the list, I have nursing and midwifery.”

Any nerves ahead of Monday morning’s big news were manageable, Hennequin said.

“I’m a little bit nervous, but I know that even if I don’t get my first preference, I’ve got a list of things that I would be happy doing,” she said.

“It’s not the be-all and end-all if I don’t get my first preference,” she said.

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