Admission to the Faculty of Engineering is based on the assessment of students' results in the Victorian Certificate of Education (or equivalent) in those subjects important to engineering - English, Mathematics, Physics and/or Chemistry. Selection for engineering degrees at Monash is based on the Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER), a percentile score which ranks applicants in the cohort on a comparative basis. Consideration will be given to the full range of an applicant's VCE studies and results and the level of performance in the school-based assessment tasks in prerequisite studies.
Admission to the BE/BDes(IndDes) double-degree program is also based on a
portfolio and interview entry requirement judged by the Faculty of Art and
Design. Students wishing to apply for this course should contact the Faculty of
Art and Design for a pre-selection kit by September in the year before
admission.
Admission to the degrees of Bachelor of Technology (CompSt) and Bachelor of
Technology (Infrastructure) are available by direct entry only, and an
interview is part of the selection process for the Bachelor of Technology
(CompSt).
Subject to availability of places, limited mid-year entry may be possible into
some single degree courses.
Information about tertiary entrance requirements and prerequisites for
admission to the faculty's courses and about the possibility of mid-year entry
may be obtained from the faculty's administration offices on each campus.
The Faculty of Engineering awards advanced standing (credit) towards its engineering degrees and technology degrees at Monash for units passed in completed or incomplete tertiary studies elsewhere (including TAFE post- secondary education courses), provided that it is satisfied that the units for which advanced standing is sought were substantially the same in content, contact hours and standard of assessment as those units from which exemption is sought. Advanced standing will be given to the second year of the Bachelor of Technology (CompSt) and the Bachelor of Technology (Infrastructure) for completed studies in approved TAFE institutes or equivalent courses.
The onus is upon the student to provide to relevant administrative officers on each campus full documentation concerning previous studies for which advanced standing is sought together with an academic transcript of results. This should be in the form of handbook unit entries and those sections of the handbook setting out course structure; in some cases course outlines handed out in lectures may provide the same information. This should preferably be done with the initial application for admission or, at the latest, at the time of enrolment. The minimum information required is number of years in course, level of unit in course, unit content and textbooks, number of contact hours and laboratory sessions etc per week, credit weighting of unit (percentage of year represented by unit), and method of assessment (number and length of assignments, number and length of examinations etc).
Irrespective of what study an applicant may have undertaken prior to admission, or may be permitted to take during their course under cross- institutional arrangements or under the `permission to take work elsewhere' regulation, it is the policy of the faculty that a certain amount of work must be completed in the student's course at Monash University. A student must complete at least 96 credit points in a particular undergraduate engineering degree program, and a student in the BTech(CompSt) or in the BTech(Infrastructure) must complete at least 72 credit points at Monash, in order to qualify for a degree of Monash University.
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