For international students
Studying less on a student visa, and how your marks are read overseas.
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Studying less on a student visa
- Student visa condition 8202 means 100 points a year, usually 50 each half-year.
- You can go under 50 only if you'll still finish by your CoE end date (for example thanks to credit), or you have an approved Reduced Study Load (RSL).
- Reasons that can count: compassionate or compelling circumstances, how your course is structured, or unsatisfactory progress.
- Reasons that don't count: not liking your electives, planning to catch up later, protecting your WAM, timetable clashes, work, or a concurrent diploma.
Stay enrolled full-time until you get an answer. An approval can mean a new CoE, and possibly a new visa.
Your marks overseas
Other unis, employers and governments each convert UniMelb marks their own way. Use the tool of whoever is asking, not a random table online.
- WES: USA and Canada (4.0 GPA)
- UK ENIC: United Kingdom
- 中国留学服务中心（CSCSE）: degree check for China
- NIC-Japan: Japan (information centre; each university or employer decides)
- KARIC: South Korea (information centre; the institution decides)
- VN-NARIC: Vietnam (official degree recognition)
- MQA: Malaysia (equivalency assessment)
- PILN (Kemdiktisaintek): Indonesia (degree and GPA equivalence)
- UGC: India (equivalence certificate, since 2025)
- 教育部 外國大學參考名冊: Taiwan (reference list; each institution decides)
- HKCAAVQ: Hong Kong (qualifications assessment)
- UniMelb grade conversion calculator: how UniMelb reads marks from other unis (for master’s entry)
Rules here are from the University of Melbourne student website and can change. Check there or ask Stop 1 before you decide anything.