Education & Experience
Graduate, Officer
You must have completed year 12 with passes in English and three other academic subjects, with a preference for at least one science subject.
South Australian applicants may achieve a pass at Year 11 English and a pass in a language rich subject at Year 12,
or
If you do not satisfy the education requirements or do not possess evidence of your educational attainment there is an alternative pathway available to you.
You may sit an Alternative Education Equivalency (AEE) Assessment to ascertain your ability at the required educational level for this trade.
Further information about this scheme is available here.
Candidates with Year 12 (and not a tertiary qualification) or who have successfully completed the AEE also must have significant compensating experience in an intelligence related field (for example, military intelligence employment groups); or other experience that is identified as being pertinent to Air Force requirements.
However, a tertiary degree in the Science or Technology fields (Information Systems / Technology, Maths, Physics, Remote Sensing, Engineering) or a tertiary degree in Arts (Political Studies, Asian Studies, Asian languages) is preferred.
It is not mandatory for appropriately qualified tertiary applicants to have completed Year 12, however these results should be presented if available.
Australian Defence Force Academy
To be eligible for admission to UNSW@ADFA, applicants must have completed Year 12 and obtained an entrance rank high enough to qualify for entry to the relevant degree program.
Further information on studying at ADFA is available here.
Assumed Knowledge Requirements
Assumed Knowledge is the level of subject knowledge that a lecturer or a tutor of a first year UNSW@ADFA course could reasonably expect of students enrolled in that course.
Assumed Knowledge is fundamental to the assessment of whether or not an applicant is likely to succeed and would be taken into account by the ADF (at the Officer Selection Board) and by UNSW@ADFA when assessing the application.
While all UNSW degrees require Year 12 English as Assumed Knowledge, applicants wishing to enter the Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Technology programs (or study Mathematics or Physics as part of a Bachelor of Science degree) also require current Year 12 Mathematics and Year 12 Physics as Assumed Knowledge.
In States where Year 12 English may be replaced by a Humanities subject for the purposes of meeting Year 12 certificate requirements, the Assumed Knowledge is Year 11 English plus a Year 12 Humanities subject.
Note: All applicants for undergraduate programs at ADFA must also apply to the Universities Admissions Centre (NSW and ACT) for entry to the University of New South Wales. The Universities Admissions Centre website is http://www.uac.edu.au
ADF Service Requirements
You should be aware that in addition to the UNSW@ADFA Assumed Subject Knowledge requirements, there may be some Year 12 subjects that are ADF Service requirements.
Officer (Reserve)
You must have completed year 12 with passes in English and three other academic subjects, with a preference for at least one science subject.
South Australian applicants may achieve a pass at Year 11 English and a pass in a language rich subject at Year 12.
A tertiary degree in the Science or Technology fields (Information Systems/Technology, Maths, Physics, Remote Sensing, Engineering) or a tertiary degree in Arts (Political Studies, Asian studies, Asian languages) is preferred; or significant compensating experience in an intelligence related field (for example, military intelligence employment groups); or other experience that is identified as being pertinent to Air Force requirements.
It is not mandatory for appropriately qualified tertiary applicants to have completed Year 12, however these results should be presented if available.