ACPE’s Entry Pathways

The ACPE Early Entry program is aimed at assessing potential HSC graduates based on your Year 11 results and predictive scores. This does not remove the requirement for completion of the HSC but merely provides you with an indication of your eligibility pending completion of the HSC results.

Eligibility and requirements
The Early Entry program is open to current domestic and international Year 12 students studying in Australia. A preliminary assessment on your eligibility will be made based on your performance in relevant Year 11 subjects. Any potential offers are conditional upon completing the HSC.

You are expected to have completed at least 4 Category A subjects in Year 11 and 12 studies including English and one of the following subjects if you are considering:

• a Health Science degree: Mathematic; PDPHE; Business Studies; Biology; Chemistry; Earth and Environmental Science; Physics and Investigating Science.
• a dance degree: Dance.

You can be considered for all courses except for the Bachelor of Education (PHE) and the Bachelor of Dance Education.

The Priority Entry pathway is a non-ATAR based admission program to an ACPE course based on HSC Year 12 results.

Eligibility and requirements
This is open to both domestic and international Year 12 students studying in Australia. You will be assessed on your performance in relevant Year 12 subjects. This applies to all courses including Education degrees.

You are expected to have completed at least 4 Category A subjects in Year 11 and 12 studies including English and one of the following subjects if you are considering:

• a Health Science degree: Mathematic; PDPHE; Business Studies; Biology; Chemistry; Earth and Environmental Science; Physics and Investigating Science.
• a dance degree: Dance.
• an education degree: meeting NESA subject requirements (three Band 5 in HSC subjects including English) and passing the teaching questionnaire.

The Schools Recommendation scheme is an early entry program for admission to degrees based on Year 11 results and ratings assigned by the school.

Eligibility and requirements
The Schools Recommendation Scheme is open to domestic Year 12 students and International Baccalaureate students studying in Australia.

You will be assessed based on the school’s ratings of your aptitude, abilities and performance in different areas of study and Year 11 results. You can apply for all ACPE courses for unconditional offers. However, for the Bachelor of Education (PHE) and the Bachelor of Dance Education the offers are conditional upon meeting NESA subject requirements in your final Year 12 results and ATAR.

Are you under 21 years of age and have not completed Year 12? This may be the pathway for you. This pathway enables you to enrol in ONE ACPE foundation unit at no cost (conditions apply) and be considered for entry upon successful completion.

Eligibility and requirements
This is open to domestic students only. To be eligible you need to be under 21 years of age and have not completed the HSC or an interstate equivalent qualification. If accepted on the pathway, you will enrol as a non-award student and be considered for admission into the degree based on your performance in the Foundation unit.

Students who are completing Year 12 at Big Picture Learning schools are eligible for entry based on the Big Picture Learning Pathway. Big Picture Education Australia and Participating high schools offer students a parallel portfolio based pathway from Year 9-10 onwards as an alternative to the HSC. This pathway recognises the need for some learners to work on areas of interest in a more self-directed way and to develop a broad range of capabilities. This is assessed via the Australian Qualifications Framework and the Australian Core Skills Framework on the basis of their subject interest. These students are highly passionate about what they are doing and highly motivated to learn and achieve.

Eligibility and requirements
If you have completed a Big Picture Education Portfolio and Year 12 at a Big Picture School, you may be eligible for admission on the basis of your Portfolio, International Big Picture Learning Credentials (IBPLC) and a recommendation from your school principal.

Courses
You can apply for all courses except the Bachelor of Education (PHE) and the Bachelor of Dance Education.

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Eligibility and requirements
If you have completed a minimum of 2-4 units of study in an accredited education provider, you can be considered for entry.

If you completed your units in a country other than Australia, the qualification must have been assessed as equivalent to an Australian qualification.

We value your experience. Fast track your study through the Recognition of Prior Learning. Upon receiving an offer from us, apply for credit for previous study by submitting an Application for Recognition of Prior Learning form along with all the relevant qualification information and verification documents to support your claim.

Please send your completed RPL form and the accompanying documents to the enrolment advisor. For information about Recognition of Prior Learning click here.

We often encounter students who have not completed the HSC but have completed an AQF qualification of Certificate IV or above or a Tertiary Preparation Certificate at a TAFE or an Australian VET provider. If this sounds like you, you may be eligible for entry via the VET pathway.

Eligibility and Requirements

If you have completed an AQF qualification of a Certificate IV or higher or a Tertiary Preparation certificate, you can be considered for entry.

If you completed your VET course in a country other than Australia, the qualification must have been assessed as equivalent to an Australian qualification.

We value your experience. Fast track your study through the Recognition of Prior Learning. Upon receiving an offer from us, apply for credit for previous study by submitting an Application for Recognition of Prior Learning form along with all the relevant qualification information and verification documents to support your claim.

Please send your completed RPL form and the accompanying documents to the enrolment advisor. For information about Recognition of Prior Learning click here.

The non-Award Entry Pathway allows eligible students to enrol in one unit and be considered for entry into an award course. Non-award entry means that you are enrolled in a unit and not a full course. You need to pass the unit in order to be considered for entry.

Eligibility and requirements
This option is available to individuals who don’t meet the direct entry requirements but would like to do a single unit to determine whether they would cope with the demands of higher education or for individuals who want to upskill in one unit only.

The Mature-age Entry Pathway is intended for students who haven’t studied for a while, may not have completed the HSC but have work and life experience and are now exploring potential options for higher education. If this sounds like you, depending on your work and life experience you may be eligible for mature age entry.

Eligibility and requirements
If you are over the age of 21 and do not have an assessable qualification such as an Australian Year 12 certificate, you may be eligible for entry into an ACPE course.

You must be able to provide evidence of your work and life experience and/or a recent Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) Multiple Choice test result. See STAT information here.

If you wish to apply for credit for industry experience relevant to your course, refer to ACPE's Recognition of Industry Experience page.

The direct entry requirements for education degrees are sometimes just out of reach of students aspiring to become teachers. If you did not meet the direct entry requirements (3 Band 5s, one of which being English) in the HSC, you may be eligible for entry into the Pathway course.  ACPE has two teaching degrees, the Bachelor of Dance Education and the Bachelor of Education (PHE). Each of these degrees has a NESA approved pathway degree.

What is a pathway degree?
The pathway degree has exactly the same units in the first year as the teaching degree, so you will not lose any credit for units completed. If you pass all your units with a credit average in the first year or are able to pass the ACER LANTITE test, you may be eligible to transfer to the Education degree. The pathway degree does not add additional time to your total course duration.

Eligibility and requirements
The education pathway is open to current year 12 and non-current school applicants.  You will be assessed on your performance in relevant Year 11 and/or Year 12 subjects.

The ACPE Articulation pathway is an option for students who are eligible to enrol in an ACPE Diploma or Associate degree and be considered for articulation into an undergraduate degree upon satisfactory completion of the diploma or associate degree. Credit for completed units are applied via Recognition of Prior Learning.

Eligibility and Requirements
The articulation pathway is open to current Australian Year 12 students or non-current school applicants. We will assess your performance on relevant Year 11 and Year 12 subjects.

Courses
You can apply for all courses except the Bachelor of Education (PHE) and the Bachelor of Dance Education.