Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design
Australian Catholic University · Strathfield (Mount St Mary)
Bachelor degree · 3 years · On campus
See every creative arts course comparedCan I get in?
- Lowest rank is the figure to compare yourself with. If you have no adjustments, your ATAR is your rank; if you have some, add them first.
- Lowest ATAR: some got in from here because adjustments lifted their rank.
- Lowest rank that got an offer: 59.60
- Lowest ATAR that got an offer, before adjustments: 50.80
- Median rank that got an offer: 71.20
2025 offers
About studying creative arts
Creative arts degrees combine studio or performance practice with critical study. Entry often considers a portfolio or an audition as well as your ATAR.
This describes the field in general, not this course. Check the university's page for what this course covers.
Getting into creative arts courses
Entry here works differently. Many courses combine your ATAR with a portfolio, audition or interview, and for some the portfolio counts for more than the rank. Units 3 and 4 English is the usual prerequisite. Check each course individually, because entry varies more in this area than any other.
This describes the field in general, not this course. Check the university's page for what this course covers.
These are the lowest rank and the lowest ATAR that got an offer in 2025, not a cut-off or a guarantee. Next year's depends on how many places there are and who applies. How ATARs really work · Didn't get the ATAR you needed?
Three kinds of figure on this page
They are not all about the same thing, so they are kept apart. Each section says who its numbers describe.
This course
Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design at ACU, Strathfield (Mount St Mary). These describe this course and nothing else.
- Lowest rank that got an offer
- 59.60
- Lowest ATAR that got an offer, before adjustments
- 50.80
- Median rank that got an offer
- 71.20
- Length
- 3 years
- Study mode
- On campus
- Campus
- Strathfield (Mount St Mary)
- TAC code
- 103304
Creative Arts at ACU
Source: QILT, SES 2023-2024, CEQ 2024-2025, GOS 2023-2025Every creative arts student at ACU, not this course alone. The tick on each bar is the national figure for creative arts.
National average: 76.6%
National average: 80.5%
All of ACU
Every student at ACU, across every subject. Nobody publishes them for one course or one study area.
Creative Arts at ACU is not reported for overall satisfaction, in full-time work, about four months out, so the whole-of-university figure is shown here instead of in the section above.
National average: 75.1%
National average: 76.2%
- Median starting salary
- $73,100
Where graduates end up
Source: QILT, 2025 GOS-LQILT does not publish three-year outcomes at course level.
of supervisors would hire another ACU graduate. Employers of recent graduates, surveyed by QILT (ESS 2023-2025).
Do students stay and finish?
Source: Dept of Education, 2024Of students who started at ACU in 2016, nine years later:
- Finished a degree
- 70.5%
- Still studying
- 3.8%
- Left after returning
- 17.3%
- Never came back after first year
- 8.4%
More recently: of new ACU bachelor students in 2023, 12% didn't come back to study at any university the following year.
Students are followed if they move: finishing a degree at another university counts as finishing, and moving to another university doesn't count as leaving. Read these alongside the quality measures, not instead of them. Completion and attrition partly reflect who a university enrols – universities serving more regional, mature-age and part-time students naturally run higher attrition without being worse at teaching. What completion rates tell you
What it costs, next to what graduates earn
Total student contribution:3 years × $9,880/year ≈ $29,600Estimate
The Australian government sets this rate by field of study, so it is the same at every university in the country – ACU did not set it and cannot discount it. Your exact total depends on the subjects you pick. Paid through HELP once you're earning, not upfront. How HECS-HELP works
- Typical starting salary (all ACU graduates)
- $73,100
- Typical salary three years on (all ACU graduates)
- $85,800
Our arithmetic, from the fee and salary figures shown elsewhere on this page with their sources. It never affects how well this course fits you.
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