Accepting your offer

Please note: Before you complete this process, you should talk to your supervisor about the date you will commence your studies at UTS. It’s important to make sure your supervisor will be available and ready to begin the supervision process on the date you intend to begin.

Once you have confirmed your commencement details with your supervisor, please complete the following steps to accept your offer:

• Step 1: Activate your UTS email account and set up your student password. To complete this process, you will need to enter your given name, family name and date of birth, as well as the 8-digit Student Number listed in your Letter of Offer from UTS.
• Step 2:  After activating your UTS account you will need to set up multi-factor authentication (MFA). 
  Go to login.uts.edu.au now to set up your MFA.
• Step 3: Using your UTS email account details, log into MyStudentAdmin. This is the online student system that you will use throughout your time at UTS:
  • at the top of the screen, click on ‘Offers’,
  • click ‘Start’ to view your offer. Please review all your offer details to make sure they are correct,
  • click ‘Continue’ and follow enrolment steps 1-4.

You have now accepted your offer. Next, you will need to:

• Accept your scholarship offer (if you have one).
• Enrol.  

You will be able to accept your scholarship on MyStudentAdmin. To do so, please complete the following steps:

• Log in to MyStudentAdmin. Note: New students will need to activate their UTS email account and set up multi-factor authentication (MFA) before completing this step.
• Go to the ‘Scholarships’ tab. The scholarship/s you have been offered will appear on this page.
• Click ‘Accept’ on the scholarship you intend to accept.
• Enter your bank details, acceptance reason, and proposed start date and reason.
• Click ‘Save’.

Once you have completed this process, your scholarship status will change from ‘Offered’ to ‘Pending Bestowal’. If you see your status as ‘Lapsed’, please contact the Graduate Research School at grs@uts.edu.au.

If you are unable to commence your studies for the session offered, you may request deferral. If you wish to defer your commencement please seek approval from your supervisor(s) and your faculty.  Once you have received their approval, please forward evidence of approval to the GRS (grs@uts.edu.au).

Higher Degree by Research students can apply for 6 or 12 months deferral for commencement (a maximum period of one year). If you are not able to commence after the one year deferral period you will need to submit a new application. The same application process will apply. The new offer will be subject to the entry requirements and fees applicable to the new intake. See UTS Student Rules 5.5 Deferral of commencement.

• If you have received scholarship offer for Research Session 1 and wish to defer within same calendar year, the Graduate Research School will consider your course and scholarship deferral together. 
• If you have received scholarship offer for Research Session 2, please refer to Defer your scholarship and check your scholarship Conditions of Award for deferral options before you request deferral.

Once your deferral request is approved you will receive a new offer letter closer to the commencement of the deferred session. Your offer will lapse if you enrol in a full award course at any other tertiary institution during the next 12 months.

Visiting Research Students and Collaborative Doctoral Research (Dual/Joint degree) students, please seek approval from your home university for the deferral approval, and provide the approval letter to the Graduate Research School before you request deferral from UTS.

If you have received a full/unconditional offer letter from UTS and you wish to accept, please complete the following documents:

• acceptance form
• agent checklist if you are applying through a UTS agent
• permission to release form and sponsorship information section if you are a scholarship holder
• provide scholarship financial guarantee or scholarship acceptance form if you are a scholarship holder, or your deposit if you are a full fee paying student
• Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC)
  • if you choose to use UTS provider Medibank Private, you can visit Medibank (opens an external site) to arrange your OSHC for visa length coverage. OR
  • provide proof if you have arranged your own overseas student health cover

Payment methods

As an International student you can pay your fees using any of the following methods:

• Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) via third party Flywire (opens an external site) — our preferred method of payment. If you use this service you will need to accept Flywire’s terms and conditions. Find out more about how to use Flywire (opens an external site) to make your payment.
• Bank draft/bank cheque — A bank draft or bank cheque should be drawn on a bank in Australia and made payable to 'University of Technology Sydney'.
• Credit Card — Only available to students who were previously enrolled at UTS.

Return all documents and payment proof to: grs@uts.edu.au. Bank draft/cheque shall be posted to:

The Graduate Research School
University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
PO Box 123
Broadway, NSW 2007

Once the Graduate Research School has receive your acceptance documentation, we will send you a Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE). You will need your CoE to apply for student visa. UTS reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission or Confirmation of Enrolment in cases where an applicant for admission to a course has not provided true and complete information or where UTS is not satisfied that the student meets the Genuine Temporary Entrant and/or Genuine Student requirements set by the Department of Home Affairs.

Australian student visa

You will need to obtain a student visa issued by the Australian Government to study in Australia.​

You will not be able to enroll in your course without this visa.

Information about obtaining an Australian Student Visa application is available at the Department of Home Affairs website. You are strongly encouraged to use an approved and registered migration agent or lawyer who is registered by the Migration Agent Registration Authority (MARA) for assistance with preparation of your visa application. Please do not rely on visa advice from unauthorised  sources on social media. Please be aware of the Department’s visa processing times which can take several months so it is important to begin the application process as soon as you have received your offer from UTS.

The Department of Home Affairs requests that all research students undertaking a PhD, Masters by Research or short term research placement in Australia provide the following documents with their student visa application. Providing these documents with your application reduces the need for Department of Home Affairs to request them from you, and will reduce processing delays for many applicants.

• Detailed CV, research proposal details, academic transcripts, and details of publications

Start an student visa online application (open an external site)

UTS Housing for visiting research students

Students in the visiting research student program are given priority in UTS accommodation provided they apply before the UTS Housing deadline. For more information please contact UTS Housing.

Collaborative doctoral research degree program students

If you are a Collaborative doctoral research degree program applicant, once you are offered at UTS, you will have an opportunity to sign your student agreement for the dual/joint PhD program. Please contact the Graduate Research School if you have queries regarding your offer.

New international students

You will need to send your scholarship acceptance document to UTS in order to receive your electronic Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE).

Please email your acceptance document to grs@uts.edu.au.

Current international students

You can accept your scholarship on MyStudentAdmin. To do so, please complete the following steps:

• Log in to MyStudentAdmin.
• Go to the ‘Scholarships’ tab. The scholarship/s you have been offered will appear on this page.
• Click ‘Accept’ on the scholarship you intend to accept.
• Enter your bank details, acceptance reason, and proposed start date and reason.
• Click ‘Save’.

Once you have completed this process, your scholarship status will change from ‘Offered’ to ‘Pending Bestowal’. If you see your status as ‘Lapsed’, please contact the Graduate Research School at grs@uts.edu.au.

After you accept your offer, you may request deferral if you are unable to commence your study in the coming session.

Higher Degree by Research students can apply for 6 or 12 months deferral from original offer date for commencement (a maximum period of one year from original offer date). If you are not able to commence after the one year deferral period you will need to submit a new application. The same application process will apply. The new offer will be subject to the entry requirements and fees applicable to the new intake. See UTS Student Rules 5.5 Deferral of commencement.

• If you have received scholarship offer for Research Session 1 and wish to defer within same calendar year, the Graduate Research School will consider your course and scholarship deferral together. 
• If you have received scholarship offer for Research Session 2, please refer to Defer your scholarship and check your scholarship Conditions of Award for deferral options before you request deferral.

Once your deferral request is approved you will receive a new offer letter closer to the commencement of the deferred session. Your offer will lapse if you enrol in a full award course at any other tertiary institution during the next 12 months.

Visiting Research Students and Collaborative Doctoral Research (Dual/Joint degree) students, please seek approval from your home university for the deferral approval, and provide the approval letter to the Graduate Research School before you request deferral from UTS.