The diversity of our student community is a positive feature of university life. Because of this, we provide educational access schemes (EAS) to ensure that students from the widest range of backgrounds have an opportunity to access our courses.
Educational access schemes
Taking into account a range of educational disadvantages that could have impacted your academic performance, the following schemes may assist you to gain entry into UTS:
- inpUTS – if you’ve experienced long-term disadvantage, impacting on your results in school, vocational or university education.
- Schools Recommendation Scheme – if you've potential to succeed at university, but may not receive an offer based on your ATAR alone.
- Humanitarian access – if you’re from a refugee or asylum seeker background
- Jumbunna pathways – if you’re Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
- Care Leavers Support – if you are in formal out-of-home care (e.g. foster care, residential care, kinship care, being a ward of the State).
Support for EAS students
If you’re entering UTS through one of our alternative entry pathways like inpUTS or the Schools Recommendation Scheme, we try to support your transition early on.
It starts with an orientation, where you’ll have the chance to connect with staff and other new students to UTS, including academics, learning centres, student services and senior students. The orientation will run you through the basics, and give you a lead on where to go and how to tap-in to help.
Bridging courses
If you are concerned about your preparation for maths and science subjects, consider doing a short intensive bridging program.
Courses are designed for students commencing in nursing, midwifery, education, science, engineering, architecture, building and business.
The Mathematics courses are free if you are enrolling at UTS.
Financial assistance
One of the greatest challenges of starting and sticking at a degree is the financial strain of setting yourself up and managing the ongoing cost of studying. We offer a range of scholarships and/or can help with immediate financial assistance or study materials.
See our financial assistance service for more information.
Students with disabilities
If you have a disability or an ongoing medical condition which may affect your studies, we encourage you to contact a Disability Services Officer to discuss the access and support which will be available to you if your application is successful.
Student services
There is a wide range of equity, academic support, counselling, health and welfare services available to our students. Take a look at our Student Services pages for more information, and see how we can support you during your degree.
Still have questions?
If you would like to talk to someone about EAS or your application process, please call our UTS Student Centre on 1300 ASKUTS (275 887) or email via Ask UTS.
When I was at high school I just remember just thinking that university is unattainable. It's that place where students from a diverse background such as myself or a student that wasn't born in Australia couldn't go to necessarily. I think I was one of the students that worried a lot about my ATAR. If we all look back to when we were doing to HSC, the only thing we thought about was I need to go well in the HSC. I think it goes back to the idea that university is that unattainable place. ATAR defines how we're going to get into university. But in reality it's nothing like that. Not everything is fixed on the HSC. It's really not the destination it's kind of the first step into something bigger and if that doesn't work out there's other routes to get to the same destination. University isn't all too scary. University is a place for all people from different ethnic backgrounds, from all religions, from all different sexual orientations and it is not that box that you have to fit in.
