There are 43 universities in Australia: 40 public universities, two international universities, and one private university. The Commonwealth Higher Education Support Act 2003 sets out three groups of Australian higher education providers: universities, other self-accrediting higher education institutions, and state and territory accredited higher education institutions.
1. Australian National University (ANU)
2. University of Melbourne
3. University of Sydney
4. University of New South Wales (UNSW)
5. University of Queensland (UQ)
6. Monash University
7. University of Western Australia (UWA)
8. University of Adelaide
9. University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
10. University of Wollongong
11. University of Newcastle
12. Macquarie University
13. RMIT University
14. Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
15. University of South Australia (UNISA)
16. Curtin University
17. Griffith University
18. James Cook University (JCU)
19. Deakin University
20. University of Tasmania
As Australia uses a Federal system of government, responsibility for education, and admission to Technical and Further Education colleges and undergraduate degrees at universities for domestic students, are in the domain of state and territory government (see Education in Australia).
All states except Tasmania have centralized processing units for admission to undergraduate degrees for citizens of Australia and New Zealand, and for Australian permanent residents; however applications for international and postgraduate students are usually accepted by individual universities.
The Australian government operates the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (This has been replaced by the very similar HECS-HELP - Higher Education Loan Program) for undergraduate students, so admission is rarely limited by prospective students' ability to pay up-front.
All states use a system that awards the recipient with an ATAR, and the award of an International Baccalaureate meets the minimum requirements for admission in every state.
ATARs are awarded based on the level of attainment in each State's individual secondary schooling exams (such as the NSW HSC).
For individuals without an ATAR, or recent secondary schooling certificate, the Special Tertiary Admissions Test is used as the standard test to provide an ATAR.
The maximum possible ATAR is 99.95, indicating that the student has achieved better than 99.95% of their peers.
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