Course Place Offers and Quotas

Types of Course Places Offers available through GEMSAS

A successful GEMSAS application may lead to an offer of one of a range of places, including Commonwealth Support Places (CSPs), Bonded Medical Places (BMPs) and full-fee places.

Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP):

A Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) is a university place offer where the Australian Government subsidises the cost of your place in a higher education course. Students are responsible for paying the remaining portion of the cost, known as the student contribution.

Full Fee Places:

A Full Fee Place is a university place offer where there is no government contribution. Students enrolled in these places are required to pay the full cost of their course.

Bonded Medical Places (BMP):

The Bonded Medical Program (BMP) is a Federal Government initiative which aims to provide more Australian trained doctors where there are workplace shortages - particularly (but not limited to) rural and remote Australia.

Information about this scheme can be found on the Australian Government Department of Health website. The BMP is open to all first year medical students who are Australian citizens, permanent residents of Australia or Australian permanent humanitarian visa holders.

Any applicant who has previously studied in a Bonded Medical Place at any University would need to have discharged any obligations they had under their agreement with the Government, including repaying any amounts owing, before being eligible to be offered a medicine CSP or BMP via GEMSAS. If you have previously studied in a BMP, please check and confirm that you are eligible prior to submitting your application.

How do I indicate which course places offers I am interested in studying?

When allocations are being made, Medical Schools will allocate quotas for each offer type. The allocation will be made using that Medical School's ranked list in order: CSP, BMP and FEE (if applicable).

When submitting your GEMSAS application, for each Medical School selected (i.e. preferenced) you will be asked to choose (and for some Medical Schools, rank) the place types you’re prepared to accept.

Offer of course places is based on ranked lists and quotas. To maximise your chances of receiving an offer at your selected Medical Schools, consider listing all types of places. To list only one offer type means you limit the available places that can be offered to you.

How do Medical Schools manage their place offers?

Selection into graduate entry medicine is based on up to six criteria:

performance in GAMSAT
performance as indicated by GPA. Please see Medical School entries for details about qualifying/key degrees and GPA calculations
performance in interview
performance in a special application or written application where required
performance in the Casper test where required
eligibility for ranking bonuses for some Medical Schools

The way each Medical School determines the GPA and combines the selection criteria to make interview and course place offers, varies. For details, please see the individual Medical School Admission Guide pages.

The main round of course place offers are issued in late October/early November. If required to fill places, additional offers are issued in late November until end of January. GEMSAS will inform applicants if they didn’t receive a course place offer. Unsuccessful applicants are automatically considered for any places that become available in that intake, and are welcome to reapply in a subsequent year.

The table below provides an outline on how each Medical School manages their place offers:

Medical School	Place Offer Details
Australian National University (ANU)	ANU will allocate place types based on the ranking of the applicant and their preferences.
Deakin University	Applicants may specify the types of places they wish to be considered for. You will not be considered for a type of place that you have not listed. Offers will be made in the following order: CSP and BMP, with the most highly ranked applicants being offered CSP places and so on down the merit order until all vacancies are filled.
Griffith University	Applicants must specify the types of places they wish to be considered for in your preferred order. You must also note your preference (1 and 2 or no preference) for the Gold Coast campus and the Sunshine Coast Health Institute teaching location. Allocations will be according to applicant rank and preferences, however your preference is not guaranteed.
Macquarie University	All places are Full-Fee paying and will be allocated based on the ranking of the applicant.
The University of Melbourne	Applicants may specify the types of places they wish to be considered for. You will not be considered for a type of place that you have not listed, however no consideration is given to the order of preferred offer types listed when offers are made. Offers will be made in the following order: CSP, BMP, and FEE, with the most highly ranked applicants being offered CSP places and so on down the merit order until all vacancies are filled. It is important that applicants who are not in a position to pay for a full fee (FEE) paying place DO NOT list this type of place in their application for the University of Melbourne. Once an applicant is offered a FEE place it is not possible to swap into a CSP or BMP. Students who enrol in a FEE place are ineligible to apply for a CSP in a subsequent application year whilst enrolled in a FEE place.
The University of Notre Dame, Australia (Fremantle, KCRMT, Broome and Sydney)	Applicants must specify the types of places they wish to be considered for. You will not be considered for a place you have not selected. Offers will be made in the following order: CSP first, BMP second (Fremantle and Sydney) and Full-Fee third (Sydney campus only), with the most highly ranked applicants being offered CSP places and so on down the merit order until all vacancies are filled. It is important that applicants who are not in a position to pay for a full fee (FEE) paying place DO NOT list this type of place in their application for The University of Notre Dame Australia. Once an applicant is offered a FEE place it is not possible to swap into a CSP or BMP.
The University of Queensland	Applicants may specify the types of places they wish to be considered for, however no consideration is given to preferred offer type when offers are made. Offers will be made in the order of CSP first and BMP second.
The University of Western Australia	Applicants may specify the types of places they wish to be considered for, however no consideration is given to preferred offer type when offers are made. Offers will be made in the following order: CSP then BMP.
The University of Wollongong	Applicants must specify the types of places they wish to be considered for. You will not be considered for a type of place that you have not listed. Rural End-to-End places will be allocated first, with remaining places allocated evenly across Medical Education tracks. You must also note your willingness to be allocated to a specific campus.

Medical School Quotas

Each university has a quota for the year's intake of domestic students (Australian citizens/permanent residents and New Zealand citizens). This includes Commonwealth supported non-bonded places (CSP) and Commonwealth supported bonded places (BMP) as well as Australian full fee places (Macquarie, Melbourne and Notre Dame Sydney only).

Most Medical Schools are obliged to fill at least 25% of all Commonwealth Supported Places with students from a rural background. Rural background sub-quotas can be filled from a combination of offer types and are not restricted to only bonded places.

Quotas for 2027 are expected to be:

School places	CSP	BMP CSP	Other	Total
Australian National University	63*	26*	Up to 30* international Approximately 40 of the available places are reserved for students who have come through an ANU undergraduate pathway program Places for Indigenous students are uncapped and may be offered in addition to the indicative CSP/BMP cap.	119
Deakin University	100^	45^	Up to 15 international* ^ 30 places are reserved for the Rural Training Stream (CSP and BMP CSP, subject to rankings) in addition to the minimum 25% requirement.	160
Griffith University	142*	56*	Up to 35 international 80 Medical Science Pathway including 20 students from University of Sunshine Coast B Medical Science (28.5% are BMP places) included in total CSP and BMP places	233
Macquarie University	N/A	N/A	60 full-fee 20 international	80
The University of Melbourne	179*	71*^	Up to 45 domestic full-fee* 60 international full-fee* Guaranteed Entry (no quota) ^Indigenous MD Student Entry Pathway (no quota) ^32 places are reserved for MD Rural Pathway applicants who apply outside of GEMSAS and 39 places will be allocated via the GEMSAS application process.	355*
The University of Notre Dame, Australia (Fremantle)	80*	32*	Up to 15 international full-fee* Includes assured and priority pathways. Places for Indigenous students are uncapped and may be offered in addition to the indicative CSP/BMP cap.	127
The University of Notre Dame, Australia (Sydney)	43*	17*	Up to 57 domestic full-fee* Up to 35 international full-fee* Includes assured and priority pathways. Places for Indigenous students are uncapped and may be offered in addition to the indicative CSP/BMP cap.	149
The University of Queensland	107*	43*	190* international (including UQ-Ochsner) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Pathways (no set quota)	340*
The University of Western Australia	74*	29*	40 international	143
The University of Wollongong	67*	27*	37 unbonded CSP* 27 bonded CSP (BMP)* 30 CSP (rural end-to-end)* 15 international	109

These quotas are indicative only and are subject to change

Key course place offer information

Applicants that decline the course place offer, or let the offer lapse, cannot be considered for another place in that selection intake. Applicants can reapply in a subsequent year.

Applicants may receive a “conditional offer”. This means you need to meet offer condition/s before the offer is firm (e.g. provision of subject results and/or evidence of course completion for studies undertaken in the year the GEMSAS application was submitted and maintenance of a minimum GPA for these studies). For some universities you will need to give them permission to send your completion data to GEMSAS OR you can upload the official academic transcript showing that your degree is completed by COB 23 December 2026.

If you wish to withdraw your application, or decide to decline the GEMSAS interview and/or course place offers, please promptly notify the GEMSAS Support Team and relevant Medical School. This will enable the timely issue of offers to other GEMSAS applicants.