Before you begin

Take the opportunity to learn about each of our Colleges, as you will be asked to place them in your order of choice on your application form. Please note that while some Colleges close for applications earlier, the application form for most remains open.

You also can only have one application submitted with one list of college preferences in our system at any given time for consideration.  Duplicate applications by a single applicant with varied lists of college preferences will be identified and removed.

Once you are ready to apply, follow the steps below.

1. Click ‘Apply’ and then ‘Log In’ using either your Google details or alternatively on the top right of the Log In page register for a SurveyMonkey Apply account and use these new SurveyMonkey Apply account details to then ‘Log In’. You can also set up your SurveyMonkey account for optional multi-factor authentication when either registering a new account or by adding as a feature to an existing profile. This provides an additional optional layer of data security, see detailed instructions here on setting up multi-factor authentication

2. There are five steps in the online application process. For each of the five steps you need to ‘Mark as Complete’ before you can move on to the next step. It is important to carefully check over and review each step to ensure all is correct before you finalise and move onto the next step. Along the way you can also pause and save your application at a point to return at a later stage and log in again to continue editing before advancing to the next step and submitting.

Five steps in the application process

• Step 1 – About you – including your personal details, background and uploading a photo
• Step 2 – Education history- including your current and future intended studies
• Step 3 – References – provide contact details for two references one academic / professional and one personal. Note your references cannot be a family member
• Step 4 – Choices – select and rank the listed Colleges in order of your preference. Note you will need to select and rank all the list of Colleges provided in the online application form to advance to the next step.
• Step 5 – Additional information – questions to help us understand more about you

3. Submit your application and you will receive a confirmation email

4. You will be contacted to pay the $75 application fee, collect references, and arrange an interview by the college you listed as first preference.

After you’ve applied

We are committed to finding the best fit for every student, which is why each College manages its own selection process.

The intercollegiate consideration process and intercollegiate waitlist

How it works​

When completing your application, you order the colleges from 1 – 10. Rest assured – whichever college offers you a place, the experience of a lifetime awaits.​

What you can expect​

If your college of first preference is unable to offer you a place for whatever reason, depending on the time of year, we will pass your application on to the next highest available college on your preference list that has places available at that time via the intercollegiate consideration process. This can occur anytime from October to January for semester one entry.

Other applicants might instead be placed on the intercollegiate wait list. On the wait list as some students decline offers for various reasons, more Residential College places may become available over the November-February period, enabling us to place you with another college on your preference list.  

In the event that there is no availability in any college, we will work closely with the University of Melbourne to provide you with information about alternative accommodation options that are provided by the University.

If you change your mind​

Although we strongly recommend you do your research before applying, we understand that sometimes people change their mind. Please contact the Intercollegiate Office if you wish to change your preferences which may be possible depending on the time of year, stage in the consideration process and which colleges are still open for new applications. If at any stage you wish to withdraw your application, please let us know here .