Fee information for Australian residents studying undergraduate education programs, including bachelor, associate degree and honours programs.
Fees for Commonwealth supported students
Fee information about Commonwealth supported places for undergraduate students. If you are enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place, you are considered to be a Commonwealth supported student.
All undergraduate and honours degrees have Commonwealth supported places (CSPs) available, except the Associate Degree in Aviation (Professional Pilots) program, which is full-fee only.
A CSP is a place at university where the tuition fee is jointly paid by you and the Commonwealth Government. Your share of the fee (student contribution) is set by the government and determined by the discipline areas (also referred to as bands) of your individual enrolled courses (subjects), not the overall program.
To be eligible for a CSP you must be:
- an Australian citizen, or
- an Australian permanent visa holder or New Zealand citizen, and
- meet the relevant citizenship and residency requirements.
If you are an Australian citizen, you will meet the CSP residency requirements if you undertake at least some of your program of study in Australia.
If you are a permanent visa holder or a New Zealand citizen, you must be resident in Australia for the duration of your course(s) to meet the CSP residency requirements.
As a CSP student, you may be eligible to apply for a HECS-HELP loan, which can be used to defer payment of up to 100% of your student contribution fees.
You cannot be enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place under the following circumstances:
- the course contributes to a program that is being undertaken primarily at an overseas campus
- the enrolment is an employer-reserved place
- the course forms part of a bridging course for overseas-trained professionals, or
- the course forms part of a program the Minister has specified, by way of legislative instrument, that students cannot be enrolled in as Commonwealth supported students.
Each program has courses you must complete to meet the academic requirements of your award program. If you wish to study additional courses that are not part of your program, you will be unable to study those additional courses and receive Commonwealth support. This is because the additional courses do not contribute towards your degree.
If you have already completed a course for which a pass grade or higher has been achieved, and the course contributes to the academic requirements of your award program, you will be unable to re-enrol in that same course and be Commonwealth supported.
If you wish to study additional courses that do not contribute towards your degree, or continue studying once you have met the requirements for your award program, you may have options to do so under other enrolment arrangements such as non-award study, single or short courses.
The Student Learning Entitlement (SLE) is the amount of study you can undertake in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) in your lifetime.
The SLE allows you to undertake 7 years (7 EFTSL) of full-time subsidised study in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP). Any course taken by you in a CSP that has a census date after 1 January 2022 will reduce your SLE balance by the EFTSL value of that course.
Once you have used all available SLE, you will be transferred to a full-fee paying place for the remainder of your study.
You can receive additional SLE in EFTSL, when undertaking certain courses or when certain events occur.
You may have your SLE amount re-credited where special circumstances apply or where their HELP balance is re-credited.
How do I find out my SLE balance?
You can check your SLE by logging in to MyHELP balance.
Once you reach your SLE limit, you are no longer entitled to undertake study in a Commonwealth Supported Place.
Students who don't require an exact figure for their student contribution amount can estimate their contribution by assuming that all courses in their program will be from the same band and using the maximum student contribution for that band as their estimate.
Some programs, such as Double Degrees, may require students to enrol in more than a standard full-time load (96 credit points) in some or all years of the program. The annual student contribution can be determined by adding together the cost for each course undertaken in that year.
What you are charged in 2025 will depend on if you are a commencing or continuing student. Annual fees displayed are per EFTSL: Effective Full-Time Student Load.
2025 student contribution fees for commencing students
Student contribution band by course (subject) |
Maximum annual student contribution amount (per EFTSL) in 2025 |
|---|---|
| Education, Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, English, Mathematics, Statistics, Nursing, Indigenous and Foreign Languages, Agriculture | $4,627 per standard year $578 per standard (12 credit point) course |
| Allied Health, Other Health, Built Environment, Computing, Visual and Performing Arts, Professional Pathway Psychology, Professional Pathway Social Work, Engineering, Surveying, Environmental Studies, Science, Pathology | $9,314 per standard year $1,164 per standard (12 credit point) course |
| Dentistry, Medicine, Veterinary Science | $13,241 per standard year $1,655 per standard (12 credit point) course |
| Law, Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce, Communications, Society and Culture | $16,992 per standard year $2,124 per standard (12 credit point) course |
Student contribution band by course (subject) |
Maximum annual student contribution amount (per EFTSL) in 2025 |
|---|---|
| Education, Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, English, Mathematics, Statistics, Nursing, Indigenous and Foreign Languages, Agriculture | $4,627 per standard year $578 per standard (12 credit point) course |
| Communications, Society and Culture, Visual and Performing Arts, Professional Pathway Psychology, Professional Pathway Social Work | $7,973 per standard year $996 per standard (12 credit point) course |
| Allied Health, Other Health, Built Environment, Computing, Engineering, Surveying, Environmental Studies, Science, Pathology | $9,314 per standard year $1,164 per standard (12 credit point) course |
| Medicine, Dentistry, Veterinary Science | $13,241 per standard year $1,655 per standard (12 credit point) course |
| Law, Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce, Commerce | $13,305 per standard year $1,663 per standard (12 credit point) course |
*Students who commenced their program in 2020 or earlier
Professional Pathway Psychology and Professional Pathway Social Work
Commencing students in these programs will be charged student contribution fees based on their program type for the units (courses) that meet the Australian Government’s Professional Pathway Psychology or Professional Pathway Social Work requirements.
For Professional Pathway Psychology, these are units that begin with field of education prefix 0907 (e.g 090701, 090799).
For Professional Pathway Social Work, these are units that begin with field of education prefix 0905 (e.g 090509, 090513).
RMIT program code |
Program name |
Program type |
| BH000 | Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) | Professional Pathway Psychology |
| BP112 | Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) | Professional Pathway Psychology |
| BP154 | Bachelor of Psychology | Professional Pathway Psychology |
| BP295 | Bachelor of Criminology and Psychology | Professional Pathway Psychology |
| BH105 | Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) | Professional Pathway Social Work |
| BP322 | Bachelor of Youth Work and Youth Studies | Professional Pathway Social Work |
| MC150 | Master of Social Work | Professional Pathway Social Work |
| BH106 | Bachelor of Social Work (Honours)/Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) | Professional Pathway Psychology and Professional Pathway Social Work |
Postgraduate Clinical Psychology
Continuing and commencing students in MC002 Master of Clinical Psychology will be charged student contribution fees at the Postgraduate Clinical Psychology rate for units (courses) that meet the Australian Government’s requirements for this program type, which are units with field of education 090701.
To determine the exact annual fee for a program, you need to know which courses you will be undertaking as well as the band and weight for each course.
To calculate an exact fee for a course, the student contribution is calculated by multiplying the EFTSL value of the course by the maximum student contribution for the band that the course has been allocated to. Your enrolment program structure shows which courses you need to complete to meet the academic requirements of your program.
Example 1: student contribution for one course
A 12 credit point economics course has an EFTSL of 0.125. For a commencing student, the 2025 student contribution for this course will be $2,124.00 (rounded down to the nearest dollar):
$16,992 x 0.125 = $2,124.00
Example 2: student contribution for multiple courses
A student commences a degree in 2025. In their first year, they enrol in eight courses of equal weighting (8 x 12 credit point courses), which comprise a standard full-time load (96 credit points). They enrol in five business courses and three mathematics courses. Their student contribution for 2025 would be calculated as follows:
| EFTSL | Number of courses | 2025 Maximum student contribution amount per band | 2025 Student contribution per band | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0.125 |
x |
3 |
x |
$16,992 |
= |
$6,372 |
0.125 |
x |
5 |
x |
$4,627 |
= |
$2,890 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
$9,262 |
* the fee for each course is rounded down to the nearest dollar
As a CSP student, you may be eligible to apply for a HECS-HELP loan, which can be used to defer payment of your student contribution to the Australian Tax Office up to your HELP limit.
Commonwealth supported places and HECS-HELP
A Commonwealth supported place is not the same as HECS-HELP. Eligible students in a CSP may also apply for a HECS-HELP loan from the Australian Government to pay for these fees. If you are approved for a HECS-HELP and/or SA-HELP loan, the Australian Government will pay RMIT on your behalf, up to the full amount of your fees. This amount will become part of your accumulated HELP debt.
Don’t forget to include other fees such as the student services and amenities fee (SSAF) and materials fees to determine the overall costs.
You may be eligible to apply to defer payment of the SSAF through the SA-HELP loan scheme.
If you are an Australian citizen or a permanent humanitarian visa holder enrolled in a CSP, and you meet the HECS-HELP eligibility criteria, you can apply for a HECS-HELP loan to defer payment of your student contribution.
If you are a permanent (non-humanitarian) visa holder, or a New Zealand citizen who does not meet the NZ SCV long-term residency requirements, you are not eligible for HECS-HELP. You must pay your student contributions upfront by the census date.
Fees for domestic full-fee students
Fee information about full-fee places for undergraduate students.
A full-fee place is a place at university that receives no financial contribution from the government. Fees cover the full cost of tuition and vary from program to program.
If you are enrolled in a full-fee place, you may be eligible to apply for a FEE-HELP loan, which you can use to defer payment of your tuition fees to the Australian Tax Office up to your HELP limit.
You will pay fees based upon the number of credit points you are enrolled in for your program and the fee-per-credit-point for that program in the current year.
Most programs at RMIT have a standard annual full-time load of 96 credit points, so you can estimate your expected tuition fee for the year by multiplying the fee-per-credit-point by 96.
You can also calculate the cost of any course in the same way. The list of courses offered by RMIT contains the credit point value for each course. The full-fee tuition fees list contains the fee per credit point for each program
Example 1:
A student will be enrolled full-time in a degree. The fee-per-credit-point for their program is $300. They can calculate their fees as follows:
| Credit points | Fee per credit point | Annual tuition fee | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
96 |
x |
$300.00 |
= |
$28,800 |
Example 2:
Some programs, such as double degrees, may require enrolment in more than 96 credit points in each year to enable students to complete the program in the allocated time. To calculate fees in these programs, students will need to know how many credit points are required in the year of their enrolment.
For example, a student will be enrolled full-time in a double degree, requiring 432 credit points over four years. They enrol in 108 credit points in their first year. Their tuition fee for the year can be calculated as follows:
| Credit points | Fee per credit point | Annual tuition fee | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
108 |
x |
$320.00 |
= |
$34,560 |
RMIT reserves the right to adjust tuition fees for full-fee places on an annual basis by an amount that will not exceed 7.5% each year (subject to rounding).
For higher education fees, tuition fees are rounded up to the nearest $10 per credit point increment, and so the actual fee increase may exceed 7.5%.
You may be eligible to apply for a FEE-HELP loan, which you can use to defer payment of your tuition fees to the Australian Tax Office up to your HELP limit.
Don’t forget to include other fees such as the student services and amenities fee (SSAF) and materials fees to determine the overall costs.
You may be eligible to apply to defer payment of the SSAF through the SA-HELP loan scheme.
Calculating EFTSL (study load)
At RMIT, each higher education course is allocated a weight in credit points that is used to calculate EFTSL (Effective Full-time Student Load).
Most higher education programs at RMIT have a standard annual full-time load of 96 credit points that is equal to 1 EFTSL (Effective Full-time Student Load). Although there are some exceptions (such as double degrees, which may require a student to undertake more than the standard 96 credit points), this does not change the way EFTSL is calculated.
The EFTSL of any course can be determined by dividing its allocated credit points by 96. For example, a 12 credit point course has an EFTSL of 0.125 (12/96 = 0.125).
Below is a list of EFTSL values for the more common credit point values:
| Credit points | EFTSL |
|---|---|
6 |
0.0625 |
12 |
0.125 |
24 |
0.25 |
48 |
0.5 Standard full time load for one semester |
96 |
1.0 Standard full time load for one year |
In addition to tuition fees, you will be charged an annual student services and amenities fee (SSAF), which is used to maintain and enhance services and amenities that improve your experience as an RMIT student.
You may be charged other expenses associated with your study in addition to tuition fees. These include material and administrative fees.
