How to accept your
offer and enrol
in your course
Higher Education
Swinburne University of Technology
Step 1 Gather your information
Before you start, you’ll need the following things on hand:
TFN
Your offer letter email
USI
Your Tax File Number
(TFN) or certificate of
application for a TFN,
if you are planning on
deferring your fees.
Your Course Planner
to assist you with your
enrolment. Find it here.
Your Unique Student
Identifier (USI)
If you don’t have a USI,
get one now.
Step 2 Accept your offer
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Log in to eStudent with your
Student ID and password, and click
on the Offers tab.
Click the Respond button on the
offer you wish to accept.
Review the details of your offer;
then click the Accept button.
Congratulations, you’ve accepted
your offer!
Forgot your password or logging in
for the first time?
Step 3 Enrol online
This should take you around 30 minutes to complete (we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer,
this process is not optimised for tablet or mobile).
If you’ve completed prior study or have work experience relevant to the course you’re enrolling in, you may be able
to apply for academic credit. However, it’s recommended you enrol in your units and complete your timetable
according to your course planner now, and make any changes to your unit enrolment after any applicable academic
credit has been applied.
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Click on the My Enrolment tab.
Accept our terms and conditions;
click on the words Read and
accept. If you are asked for further
details e.g. your parent/guardian
details, click on the word Provide,
then enter your details and click
the Update information button
to submit. If you are not asked for
further details, proceed to next step.
If you’re asked to submit your
Request for Commonwealth
Support, select Provide (this form
is mandatory to confirm your
Commonwealth Supported Place).
If you’re eligible and wish to apply
for HECS-HELP, you can
do this on the same form.
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Enrolling in individual units
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Refer to your course planner to
check which units to enrol into and
how many you should be doing.
You can find information to help
you with your unit selection
by viewing the planning your
course structure pages on our
website. If you wish to view a
sample timetable, refer to your
course planner to guide your unit
selection, then visit the online
timetable planner.
If applicable to your degree, you
may be prompted to select a
major. To do this, click the select
hyperlink from the option line
below your course title. Click save
changes to study planner and
expand the major.
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In the grey search box, select the
year you are enrolling in, study
period and location as per your
course planner.
Select the units you wish to enrol
in. Choose the teaching period
from the drop-down menu in the
grey bar. If there is no choice, we
will select the period for you.
You may be able to study some
units online, or partly online and
partly in a classroom on campus.
If you can see these options,
choose your preference.
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Select the Enrol checkbox on the
right-hand side for each unit you’re
enrolling in. Then select Enrol at
the bottom of the screen.
Select Confirm Enrolment to
finalise enrolment.
Make sure your enrolment matches
your course planner. You need to
study some units in a certain order.
If you enrol in units in the wrong
order it can affect future units you’re
able to study and how long it takes
you to complete your course.
Step 4 Fees and government assistance
Your fees will vary based on the course and units being studied. To learn which fees you need to pay and
when, and what government financial assistance you may be eligible for, see paying your fees.
To make a payment:
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Select My Financials.
Select Make a Payment from the
left-hand navigation.
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To apply for government assistance (HECS-HELP, FEE-HELP and SA-HELP):
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Select My Financials.
Select HELP forms from
the left-hand navigation.
Select Add New for a
new application.
Provide your details and
select submit.
Step 5 Set up your class timetable
You can now register into classes for the units you have enrolled in. If you’re studying only online-delivered
units, you don’t have a timetable and can skip this step.
If you have enrolled in individual units, you need to set up your timetable:
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Click on the Class Timetable tab.
To register into a clash-free
timetable, select the Register into
clash-free classes button on the
right of the screen. If the timetable
generated doesn’t suit, you may
have some options on this screen
to change it. To learn more about
registering into classes, see setting
up your class timetable.
What happens now?
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Set up your student email.
It’s important to check your
student email regularly because
we use it to send you important
information. Find out how to set
up your student email here.
Visit our website for useful
information on getting started
at Swinburne.
Need help?
1300 794 628 (option 2)
offer@swinburne.edu.au
National Admissions
PO Box 218 Hawthorn
Victoria 3122 Australia
CRICOS 00111D RTO 3059 SUT0116_202108
TEQSA PRV12148 Australian University
Telephone 1300 794 628 (opt. 2)
Email: offer@swinburne.edu.au
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