Check your General Offer Conditions to find out whether this option is available to you. Select an item to display more details about how to complete that step.
If you wish to delay the commencement of your course and you are eligible, you can defer your offer until the next academic year. There is a $100 fee to defer your offer.
Check your offer to see in what study period and year your course is due to start.
If you have received an offer for a Session 3 start and you cannot commence in this study period you will have to defer your offer if you want to start your course next year.
What Happens when you defer your offer?
SCU will send you an invoice via email — pay your $100.00 using the instructions provided
Upon payment SCU will send you another email confirming your deferment
In November of this year, you will receive a new offer for Session 1 of the following year
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You have been made an offer into a course, if you accept your offer you are telling the University that you want to start studying this year. The University will then admit you to your course. Accepting your offer means that you accept the University’s terms and conditions and you agree to abide by the University’s rules.
A degree program at Southern Cross University (eg: the “Bachelor of Nursing”, the “Master of Business Administration”, the “Associate Degree of Creative Writing”). Courses are sometimes called “awards” or “degrees” (eg: what award are you working towards? What course are you doing? What degree are you studying?)
You have been made an offer into a course, if you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place you are allowed to defer your offer. If you defer defer your offer you are telling the University that your circumstances have changed and you are unable to start your studies this year, but that you would like to start the course next year instead. Deferring your offer costs money, but in November you will automatically receive an offer into the same course for the next calendar year. Do not confuse deferring your offer (delaying the start of your studies) with deferring your fees (using a Government Loan Scheme to pay your fees).
Your formal offer to study a course at SCU. Your offer contains important details including the name of the course, the location where you’ll be studying, the SCU School/College offering your course and the year and study period when you’ll start. It also contains the SCU student number that has been allocated to you.
Specific Offer Conditions: Your official offer contains a section called ”Specific Offer Conditions“. These are conditions that must be fulfilled before you will be allowed to start studying. For example sometimes we may need to get a copy of a transcript of your past academic results. Check your offer to see whether there are any specific conditions attached to it. If so, you will need to provide the Admissions Team at SCU with any information they may have requested before you can enrol in units. General Offer Conditions: Your official offer contains a section called “General Offer Conditions”. These are conditions that are generally placed on every student in your course — this section will advise whether or not you have an option to defer your studies.
My Enrolment is the University’s student management system; it contains your official student record. Your access into this system enables you to self manage your studies; it is where you will officially self-enrol in your units, self-register into on-campus classes at the beginning of a study period and get your official results at the end. You can request a leave of absence here or change your enrolment if necessary. The invoice for your studies can be found here and so can the details of any examinations you may need to sit. It contains details about you too – your contact details and so forth. You can update these details here and it is your responsibility to ensure that they are always accurate. You will use My Enrolment for a lot of important tasks throughout your studies at SCU so take the time to get to know your way around it now.
SCU provides you with a University email address. It is SCU policy that we will only send official communications to your SCU webmail account — we will not send them to any other email address. It is therefore very important to regularly check your SCU webmail account. It is possible for you to set up your SCU webmail account to forward all emails to your personal email account, but this will not happen automatically, you must set this up yourself.
SCU runs two academic calendars; the Session Academic Calendar for most undergraduate courses and the Trimester Academic Calendar for most postgraduate courses. Each of these calendars contains 3 study periods: Session 1, 2 and 3 are the study periods in the Session Calendar. First, Second and Third Trimesters are the study periods in the Trimester Calendar. See Teaching Calendar/Key Dates for more information about study periods.
