International Students
Study online in your home country for Semester 2 in 2020.
Australia's borders are currently closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing international students from entering the country.
However, ECU will be offering a range of courses that you can study online in Semester 2 2020. When our border re-opens, you'll be able to complete your studies on-campus in Perth, subject to you being able to obtain a visa.
To find out what courses are available, take a look at our Semester 2 offerings.
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Global Open Day
2020
ECU Global Open Day will help you think about where you want to go in the world and how ECU can take you there.
Register nowWhy Perth?
Edith Cowan University, based in Perth Western Australia is Australia's top public university for teaching quality and one of the best for student experience.
We're also one of the world's best young universities 1, with more than 6,000 international students who've chosen to study in Perth.
Perth is a vibrant, sophisticated and safe city that's regularly rated in the top 10 in the world for liveability 2.
Home to almost 2 million people, Perth is one of Australia's most multicultural cities, with around 37% of citizens being born in another country.
Perth's weather is arguably the best in Australia too. We enjoy the most days of sunshine of all of our major cities.
The mild Mediterranean climate, endless blue skies, fresh air and brilliant beaches are hard to beat!
1. Source: Times Higher Education 2019 Young University rankings.
2. Source: The Economist's annual liveability survey.
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Why ECU?
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ECU top in teaching quality For the fifth year in a row, ECU has received the top undergraduate teaching quality ranking of all 37 public universities in Australia.
Over 85% of ECU students participating in the government’s QILT survey, rated their teaching quality positively. ECU was also the top-ranked public university in Australia for undergraduate skills development for the sixth year in a row.
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Good Universities Guide In the 2020 Good Universities Guide, ECU graduates have given us a 5-star rating for:
- Teaching quality
- Skills development
- Student support
- Learning resources
- Median salary (based on the starting salary for new domestic graduates under age 25, and in their first full-time job.)
The 5-star rating for teaching quality has now been achieved for 13 straight years. We're the only public university in Australia to have achieved such a consistently high endorsement.
Read more about the Good Universities Guide.
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THE Impact Rankings 2020 ECU has been ranked number 9 in the world for Quality Education and is in the top 100 overall in the 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact rankings.
The rankings show how the global higher education sector is working towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
ECU also ranked in the top 4% of universities surveyed for Gender Equality, and in the top 50 for Good Health and Wellbeing and Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Read more about the THE Impact Rankings
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THE Young University Rankings ECU has been ranked in the world's top 150 universities under 50 years old in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Young Universities Rankings.
Young universities are measured on their teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income.
These are the same performance indicators as measured in the overall THE World University Rankings.
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World University Rankings - Engineering ECU has been ranked in the world’s top 175 universities for Engineering and Technology in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for 2020.
This latest THE ranking moves ECU up from last year’s global top 250 into the top 175, reflecting ongoing improvements in areas such as teaching, research, international outlook and citations.
We're closer than you think
Perth has the same or similar time zone as many Asian cities. We’re also the closest Australian capital to cities in Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Perth -3 hours
- Azerbaijan
- Pakistan
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
Perth -2.5 hours
- India
- Sri Lanka
Perth -2 hours
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
Perth -1 hours
- Indonesia
- Laos
- Mongolia
- Vietnam
Same time zone
- Brunei
- China
- Hong Kong
- Indonesia
- Malaysia
- Philippines
- Singapore
Perth +1 hours
- Indonesia
- Japan
- South Korea
2020 Semester 2 offerings
Apply for a range of courses in Semester 2.
Choose a course from one of our study areas below.
These courses can be started via online study in your home country. When borders re-open, you can complete your studies on-campus in Perth, subject to you meeting visa requirements.
What does PARTIAL mean?
Some courses listed below are shown as ‘partial’. This means we don't usually offer the course via online study, but it's available to you in Semester 2 of 2020, provided you enrol in up to 4 units of online study in that course.
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- Bachelor of Commerce
- PartialBachelor of Hospitality and Tourism Management
- PartialBachelor of International Hotel and Reort Management
- Master of Business Administration
- Master of Business Administration International
- Master of Finance and Banking
- Master of Human Resource Management
- Master of Management Information Systems
- Master of International Hospitality Management
- Master of Marketing and Innovation Management
- Master of Professional Accounting
- Master of Project Management
- Master of Supply Chain and Logistics Management
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- PartialBachelor of Aviation
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Chemical) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Civil and Environmental) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Civil) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Renewable Energy) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Electrical Power) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communications) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Instrumentation Control and Automation) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Marine and Offshore Engineering) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Naval Architecture) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Ocean Engineering) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Engineering (Petroleum Engineering) Honours
- PartialBachelor of Technology (Aeronautical)
- PartialBachelor of Technology (Engineering)
- PartialMaster of Engineering
What can you study here?
To help our students with a career direction, we group similar fields of work into study areas.
Within each study area below you can choose an undergraduate or postgraduate degree. And within most degree courses, you can choose your speciality, or major subject.
World Ready Experience
We equip you with the confidence and practical skills to deal with whatever challenges may come your way, no matter where you are in the world.
Stay longer on your student visa
From November 2019, international students may be eligible to stay in Western Australia for three years after completing their undergraduate or postgraduate study.
A post-study work visa may give you the opportunity to gain more work experience and you could be eligible for skills assessments required for a skilled visa application.
There may also be an opportunity for you to apply for a limited number of scholarships, providing up to $15,000 per year to support study and living expenses. For ECU, the scholarship would require you to study at our South West Campus in Bunbury.
Note: These announcements are a positive development for international students interested in studying in Perth, but are subject to change as they are formally implemented by the relevant state and federal government departments.
More about post-study work visas
International scholarships
International students are eligible to apply for scholarships to study our undergraduate or postgraduate courses. Scholarships can help reduce your fees, text books and living expenses.
Stories from our international students
Perth is Australia’s most multicultural city, with around 35% of its citizens being born in another country.
Student
stories
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"I have no doubt I came to the right place for my doctoral degree"
Emmanuel KokorokoPhD Business (major in Management) I chose to do my doctorate here because I found the PhD in Business program at the School of Business and Law to be focused on conducting cutting edge and innovative research in areas that are relevant to the global community.
The ECU facilities and services are more than enough for you to achieve your dreams. The great thing about the lecturers is that they give you the opportunity to explore and discover your interests whilst at the same time they guide you to pursue those interests.
I found my supervisors to be very supportive and dedicated to supervising my research work, they create an enabling learning environment that help me to develop my research skills and competencies.
To the new international current and prospective students especially the graduate research students, I can assure you that ECU is a great place to study.
ECU carries this climate of a modern, world-class and ambitious institution. It looks like a place I can achieve my goals and aspirations. I have no doubt I came to the right place for my doctorates degree.