CHARLES Sturt University has reported unprecedented demand for its courses in 2016, with demand for undergraduate, on-campus courses reaching a five-year high.
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The university, which has campuses in Orange, Bathurst, Albury-Wodonga, Dubbo, Wagga Wagga and Port Macquarie, announced its main round university offers for NSW yesterday evening.
It is making more than 1360 offers in the main round university release through the NSW University Admissions Centre (UAC) and Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) this week. In Orange, CSU had 519 applications, with 281 offers made to-date, up 16 per cent on 2015.
The most popular courses at the former agricultural school are the allied health offerings in dental science, physiotherapy, pharmacy and clinical science.
The Bathurst campus also had the best demand in five years, with 2100 applications and 1757 offers made to date, up 7 per cent on 2015.
Its most popular disciplines were allied health, communications and teacher education, and the most popular courses were clinical science (paramedic), communications, nursing, criminal justice, education (kindergarten to year 12 and early childhood/primary) and exercise and sports science.
This year is also the initial intake for the Bachelor of Technology/Master of Engineering (Civil Systems).
Demand for CSU online undergraduate and postgraduate courses also remains strong and, as of yesterday, about 8400 online offers were sent, which is 12 per cent more than the same time in 2015. Further offers will be made over the next six weeks.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Professor Toni Downes said so far, CSU had made more than 5800 offers for undergraduate courses on its regional campuses, which was an overall increase of 14 per cent, with more offers to be made in the coming weeks.
“While it is too early to accurately predict how many applicants will accept their offers and join us to study at Charles Sturt University, we are confident that intake numbers will be larger, based on the increased number of offers we have made. Students who have not received an offer to study as yet should not be disheartened because there are many options for later rounds and pathway courses,” she said.