Applying for a postgraduate course
- Postgraduate degrees, such as a masters degree or graduate certificate, build on your existing knowledge and qualifications.
- By undertaking postgraduate study, you’ll learn up-to-date skills while developing excellent time management and communication.
- Find out whether you’re eligible, how to apply and how to accept your offer.
Before you apply
If you’ve found a course that’s right for you, you’ll need to consider the following before applying:
- when you will be studying – check our session dates
- whether you meet the admission requirements and the English proficiency requirements. Most postgraduate courses require applicants to have completed a bachelor degree
- if you have studied previously, any recognition of prior learning that might be credited towards your desired course at UTS.
How to apply
If you’re ready to apply, start your application on My Student Portal.
We are currently accepting applications for the following teaching sessions:
- Autumn 2025
Creating your application in My Student Portal
Visit My Student Portal to begin your application. Follow the appropriate login process below, based on your current student status.
Once you’ve logged in, select your desired course under the Postgraduate course search. Courses listed on UTS Online can be found through the Postgraduate Online course search.
Provide supporting documentation
Depending on your course's requirements, you may need to provide the following document types.
Once you have finished uploading documents, submit your application.
After submitting your application
You’ll receive an email acknowledging the submission of your application. You will then be able to:
- Track the status of your application via My Student Portal
- Receive correspondence from UTS via email for further documentation to process your application.
- Receive an application outcome via email.
All admissions correspondence from the University will be sent to the email address used to create your UTS application profile.
Accepting or deferring your offer
If you have met the eligibility requirements, you will receive an unconditional letter of offer via email.
If you want to accept, you can:
- accept your offer and enrol in subjects through My Student Admin
- apply for recognition of prior learning (if applicable)
- apply for a scholarship (if applicable).
If you would prefer to defer, and your offer is not an ineligible postgraduate course, you can:
- Go to Start and set up your UTS student email and account.
- Log into My Student Admin and choose the defer option.
FAQs
I want to study for my postgraduate coursework degree online. Can I find the course under Postgraduate or Postgraduate Online in My Student Portal?
Please apply under Postgraduate Online if the course is listed on UTS Online.
For all other courses, you can find them under Postgraduate in the UTS Student Portal
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