Your guide to student life at UNSW
Find the answers to all your questions on enrolment and student life. Make the most of your time at uni.
Temporary outage: myUNSW and other systems are being upgraded to an improved platform
FromFriday 28 March 2025, 5.30pm AEDT toSunday 30 March 2025, 11.59pm AEDT
During the upgrade,myUNSW services will be unavailable. These include updating yourEnrolment, applying forSpecial Consideration and accessing yourAcademic Statement.The Nucleus: Student Hub will also provide limited services during this time.
Please take note ofkey dates and plan ahead to minimise any impact to your studies.
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Temporary Outage: myUNSW & Other Systems
Plan ahead to avoid disruptions during the temporary outage
A temporary outage of myUNSW and other systems is scheduled from5:30pm AEDT, Friday 28 March to 11:59pm AEDT, Sunday 30 March 2025.
To improve system reliability and performance, myUNSW and other systems will not be available during this period. These include accessing your academic statements, amending your enrolment and requesting official documents. The Special Consideration, Fee Statement, and Payment Options portals will also be affected. The Nucleus: Student Hub will have limited services, resuming full operations on Monday 31 March 2025. However, Moodle will remain unaffected, allowing students to log in, access materials, and complete assessments as usual.
Students are advised to submit essential applications before the outage to ensure timely processing. Applications submitted during or immediately after may face longer processing times, so it is important to reviewkey dates and plan accordingly.
Go on student exchange in Term 1 2026
Complete a term (or year) of your studies overseas!
Planning your exchange for Term 1 2026? Apply by Wednesday 30 April 2025
Build life-long global connections, gain a new perspective on your studies and hone skills that employers value through anunforgettable experience at one of our partner universities. The credits you earn while on exchange will count towards your UNSW program of study!
Look out for a range ofevents leading up to theexchange application deadline where you'll get the chance to ask your questions to Exchange Advisors and returned students.
Log intoApplying for Exchange: Your Guide on Moodle to access all your essential exchange information and drop into online advising sessions.
Equip yourself with lifesaving suicide prevention skills
When someone you know is struggling, knowing how to respond can make all the difference.
Recognise & Respond: Suicide Prevention for Everyday Life is a self-paced online workshop running from 1 January 2025 – 30 March 2026, designed to equip UNSW students and staff with the skills to identify warning signs, start conversations, and connect people to support.
Delivered in partnership with Black Dog Institute, this interactive e-learning module includes real-life scenarios, practical strategies, and a knowledge quiz—all in just 60 minutes.
Join us in building a supportive community and make a difference!
FAQs
Enrolment is a two-step process at UNSW: course enrolment and class registration, all done through myUNSW. Each term, you will be assigned a class registration appointment to finalise your timetable for the upcoming teaching period.
To choose which courses to enrol and register in, browse through yourProgram Handbook to view your options.
Tuition for your studies will be shown as payable on your Fee Statement until thecensus date for the enrolment. It allows you to make a student contribution to your fees upfront if you would like to reduce the amount that gets deferred to your HECS-HELP.
If you have enough balance to defer to HECS-HELP and don't want to pay your student contributions upfront, your fees will be automatically deferredafter the census date of the enrolment and no further action is required from you. Payments made after the census date will not be applied to your student contribution charges for the current enrolment.
The release of course content on Moodle is managed by each course convenor. Typically, the Moodle content is made available a week before the commencement of the term. However, it is also common for some course content to be available on Moodle only from the first day of the term.
If you have recently updated your enrolment, please allow 48 hours for the course to appear on your Moodle. If you still do not have access to these courses and have confirmed that you are correctly registered in the course on myUNSW, contact your course convenors via email to request access.
View theTimetable website for each course to find information on your course convenors.
If you have pending grades such as LE, WC, WJ or WD, you may have a provisional academic standing. Academic standing will be recalculated on a weekly basis until your withheld results are resolved. However, if your academic standing has still not been recalculated a week after your grades have been updated, contactThe Nucleus: Student Hub for support.
If you are unable to to sit your exam or submit your assessment by the due date because of circumstances beyond your control, you may be eligible to apply for Special Consideration or Short Extension.
Short Extension is a new process that allows you to apply for an extended deadline on yourassessment without the need for supporting documentation, providing immediate approval during brief, life-disrupting events.
If you are unable to attend your exam, require more time to complete your assessment, or your course does not offer Short Extension, you may check your eligibility for Special Consideration instead.
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