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Year 12 graduates who missed out on a first-round offer for their preferred university, TAFE or private college course last month are among almost 14,000 people set to receive a second-round offer for tertiary study in Victoria on Tuesday.
The Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) second-round offers also include Year 12 graduates from Queensland and Western Australia hoping to study in Victoria, as well as mature-age students and other non-Year 12 applicants.
Ada Miller will study event management at the Victorian College of the Arts.Credit: Wayne Taylor
Year 12 graduate Ada Miller’s experience working as an assistant manager of vocalists at the State Schools Spectacular – which showcases the talents of thousands of students at John Cain Arena each year – inspired them to make a last-minute change to plans and apply for a second-round offer.
During the first-round offers, Miller was accepted to study live production and technology at RMIT University. But after discussing their options with a friend who was studying at the Victorian College of the Arts, the 18-year-old decided to change their preferences and has been accepted to study a bachelor of events management at the college instead.
“I felt very grown up in that position at the State Schools Spectacular, and I could see my future there,” Miller said. “I went to the College of Arts [website] and found event management and I thought, ‘Oh my god. This is what I want to do’.”
The pool of second-round offers is substantially smaller than the first round in December, when nearly 50,000 people found out if they had been accepted into their preferred course. More than 67,400 students now have an offer to begin tertiary studies in 2026.
The second round includes at least 3350 offers to study at Monash University, more than 1900 offers for RMIT University, 1700 at the University of Melbourne and 1300 at Deakin.
“Eighty-eight per cent of VTAC applicants have already received at least one course offer, with more offers to come in January and throughout February,” VTAC chief executive Teresa Tjia said.
You can search your name in the table below to see any second-round VTAC course offers. This is not an exhaustive list of all second-round offers, as some applicants declined to have this information published.
Health courses remain the most popular in Victoria, with nearly 21 per cent of offers in this field. Study related to society and culture accounted for 19.3 per cent of offers, while management and commerce, and those in the natural and physical sciences each totalled around 15 per cent of the offers.
Education has also proven popular with a rise of about 6.5 per cent (3686 students) in applications from the previous year.
Offers from the first-round database can also be searched, with some students appearing in both databases as they did not receive their top preference in the first round in December.
People yet to receive an offer are urged to seek support from their school, tertiary institutions and VTAC before a deadline to change preferences by 2pm on Wednesday.
Prospective students yet to apply for a tertiary place can submit a new application through VTAC by 5pm on Tuesday for consideration in the remaining offer rounds in January and February.
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