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Student visa · eligibility

Eligibility Checker

Assess your Student Visa eligibility.

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Read against the law in force, checked on 22 October 2026

How it works

  1. Step 1Answer the questionsYour goals, education, work experience and finances
  2. Step 2Add your detailsWe’ll email your results.
  3. Step 3See your resultsUnderstand how you meet the requirements or not, and why.

The Eligibility Checker sets your answers beside the Student visa (subclass 500) requirements in the Migration Regulations and the Department of Home Affairs' instruments. The checker gives general information, not migration advice. The Department decides every visa application, and its Student visa page has the full requirements.

Before you start

Why it matters, and what happens next

Why check before you apply

The Department of Home Affairs can refuse a Student visa application that misses a requirement. The checker shows, before anything is lodged, which requirements your answers already meet and which ones need work.

  • A requirement marked Fixable, such as an English score or the money to show, can be fixed before the application.
  • Where you apply from changed on 2 October 2026. Holders of a Student, graduate, visitor or Working Holiday visa in Australia now apply from outside Australia, with some exceptions for students.
  • The answers also show which course, English plan and money plan fit the visa after the course.
What the checker reads
  • Where you areOutside Australia, or in Australia and on which visa. The visa held decides where the application is made.
  • EnglishA test score, a test still to book, or study in English. The Department of Home Affairs publishes the scores it accepts.
  • MoneyThe money you can show for the first 12 months. The Department sets a figure for living costs, course fees and travel.
  • AgeAge for the student visa, and for the graduate visa after the course when work or permanent residency is the goal.
  • Genuine StudentHow the course fits your study and work so far. The Department reads this from the application.
  • Charge and processingThe visa application charge for your passport, and the order the Department processes applications in.

Each line of your result carries one mark:

  • GoodThe answer meets the requirement.
  • FixableThe answer falls short, and it can change.
  • Talk to usA person reads this one with you.
  • ImportantInformation that affects the plan.
What happens with your answers
  • After the last question, the checker asks for your name and email, then shows your results.
  • Studyaway emails you a copy of the results and keeps your answers to reply to you.
  • A person at Studyaway reads every result and replies within one business day.
  • Studyaway provides all students with access to a Registered Migration Agent.

How Studyaway keeps your details: the privacy and data policy

The right option based on your situation
  • Outside Australia and planning to studyThe checker is the place to start.Start the check
  • Already in AustraliaThe checker asks about your visa. For a course change or a visa that ends soon, the onshore help form goes straight to a person.Get help now
  • Already a Studyaway clientSupport has your file.Go to support
Eligibility Checker

Check your eligibility

six short pages

  1. Your goal
Step 1 of 6

Your goal

Key
  • Good
  • Fixable
  • Talk to us
  • Important
What is your goal for studying in Australia?
Important:

The checker shows the visa pathways that fit your goal.

Next

The tools that go with it

  • Work out your moneyThe amount the Department requires for your course, and the evidence it accepts.Open the calculator
  • Build your document listThe documents for your passport and situation, ready to tick off.Open the list
  • Find your courseCareer Match names the courses that fit how you like to work.Take Career Match

Figures are from the Migration Regulations 1994 and the Department of Home Affairs' instruments and Directions, checked current on 22 October 2026. General information only, not migration advice.

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