Professional Year

The Professional Year Program is particularly intended to address Australia’s skill deficiency in particular callings and perceived by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. It improves employability of International graduates of Accounting, IT and Engineering fields and effective fulfillment gains those 5 points towards permanent residency in Australia.

Professional year applicant have following advantages:

Helps you to gain 5 extra points towards Permanent Residency
Enhance Your CV
Gain Professional Year Certificate
Gain a nationally accredited certificate

Join relevant professional networks
Career counselling during and on completion of program
Access to various workshops
Put your theoretical knowledge into practice/experience Intake

Intake

There are program intakes every month. The dates change by course and providers.

Enrolement Eligibility Requirement

Applicant graduated from a related higher education program within Australia whose duration is minimum 2 years.
Hold a subclass 485 Temporary Resident Visa for skilled migration or show confirmation of your application as bridging visa.
Achieved English requirement
1) Accounting – minimum IELTS score of 6.0 (no band lower than 6.0) or equivalent
2) Information Technology – minimum IELTS score of 6 overall, with no band below 5, or equivalent
3) Engineering – minimum IELTS score of 6.0 with no band below 5, or equivalent
Skill assessment from relevant professional association

Class

Weekdays and weekends classes are available for all the programs. So student must attend 1 class/week but the class timing varies from one provider to the other. Breaks during the program is not recommended but individual cases are best discussed with the course providers.

Fees For The Program

Accounting – Depending on the provider, fee varies from $6000 to $11500
Engineering – Depending on the provider, the fee is between $15200 – $15500
ICT – $12600 for all providers
Student may pay the fees in installments to their providers

Provider

Providers exist in all states of Australia for this program. Student can select the provider based on the city preference.

Internship

It’s of 12 weeks on weekdays and minimum 3 days attendance is require in every week. Internship is not paid.

If student is working in related field then student can use their own company for internship. Student need to discuss this with their provider and get requisite approval. Student must need to complete internship within the agreed time frame. Student will not be permitted to withdraw or change to another internship. Failure to complete the approved/agreed internship will result in failure of your internship module and your graduation will be delayed.