Admissions information for international students
Bachelor of Nursing Practice

Entry requirements

Minimum entrance requirements for non-school-leavers

Non year 12 applicants may be admitted through the following mechanisms:

Comparable qualifications: Applicants may be admitted to the course on the basis of qualifications deemed to be the equivalent of VCE and includes qualifications at secondary or tertiary level obtained interstate or overseas or TAFE qualifications. Proof of a satisfactory English standard is required for students with overseas qualifications from non-English speaking backgrounds.

Minimum entrance requirements also include satisfactory completion of the full first year of an Associate Diploma course or an Advanced Certificate course (Cert IV) offered from a TAFE institute, or by two semester-length units of a course or non-degree studies taught by Monash, another university or Open Universities Australia.

Indigenous applicants, who have not completed school and/or are of mature age, can apply for nursing at Monash University through the Monash Indigenous Access Scheme (MIAS).

VCE prerequisites

Units 1 and 2- two units (any study combination) from general mathematics or mathematical methods (CAS), or Units 3 and 4-mathematics (any). Units 3 and 4-a study score of at least 30 in English (ESL) or 25 in any other English.

International Baccalaureate subject prerequisites

• A score of at least 4 in English SL or 3 in English HL or 5 in English B SL or 4 in English B HL, and
• A score of at least 3 in any mathematics subject.

English requirements for international students

Gaining the required result in one of the following tests of English language:

a minimum overall IELTS test score of at least 6.5 with individual band scores required at 6.5 for Reading, 6.5 for Listening, 6.0 for Writing and 6.0 for Speaking.

a TOEFL minimum test score of either;

in the written TOEFL, 580 with a Test of Written English (TWE) score of at least 4.5; or

in the internet-based TOEFL, an overall score of at least 90 with at least 22 in the written section and no less than 20 in any other section.

University entrance requirements

Minimum entrance requirements for admission to Monash University Australia.

Entry scores

2012 international qualification entry requirements and scores for this course are available from the Undergraduate Qualifications Database.

Applications

Semester one (March)

Applications are made directly to the University and can be made online via International Recruitment Services.

Semester two (July)

This course currently doesn't have places available for mid-year entry.

Enrolment obligation

International students enrolling in a CRICOS-registered course can study no more than 25% of their course by distance and/or online learning. Students cannot enrol exclusively in distance and/or online learning study in any compulsory study period. See standard 9.4 of The National Code 2007.