Australia
Three-year undergraduate degrees with a mid-year intake as well as the main one, and admission largely on Class 12 results.
How the degree is shaped
Most bachelor’s degrees are three years; professional degrees such as engineering are four.
There is a February intake and a July intake, so a year is not necessarily lost by starting later.
Admission is generally on Class 12 marks against a published entry requirement.
Before you go further
What Indian applicants are routinely not told
None of this is hidden — it is on the official sites. It is simply not what the material aimed at you leads with.
The mid-year intake is genuinely useful and under-used: a student who misses the February round is six months away from the next, not eighteen.
A three-year Australian bachelor’s meets entry to master’s programmes in most places, but confirm it for the specific country you might go on to.
The route in
Applying through Study Australia
The official government service. Applications are made to universities directly or through their appointed channels rather than through one national portal.
Open Study Australia (official site, opens in a new tab)
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Tests usually involved
IELTS
English language testAn English language test accepted for study and immigration across the UK, Australia, Canada and much of Europe.
British Council, IDP and Cambridge — official site (opens in a new tab)
TOEFL
English language testAn English language test widely accepted in the United States and elsewhere. Institutions publish their own required score.
Official source
Permission to study is decided by this body. We do not summarise what it requires — those rules change, they are regulated, and getting them second-hand is how people lose money.
Australian Department of Home Affairs (official site, opens in a new tab)
The official site answered on 23 August 2026 but declined our automated check. The link is live; open it directly.