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2008 Fees for 2008 Commonwealth Supported Students

This page applies to 2008 Commonwealth Supported Students who are Australian citizens, holders of an Australian humanitarian visa, Australian permanent residents or New Zealand citizens and commenced their studies in 2008.
Details about fees for other types of enrolments…

General Information

Commonwealth Supported Students pay a student contribution towards the cost of their education either upfront or by deferring all or part of the debt using the Higher Education Contribution Scheme - Higher Education Loan Program (HECS-HELP). New Zealand citizens and Permanent Residents in Commonwealth Supported places must pay their Student Contribution in full by the semester census date.

How to Calculate Your Contribution

Each degree program requires the completion of a number of units. This is generally 240 units for a three-year program and 320 units for a four-year program. To accumulate the necessary units, students enrol in courses according to the degree requirements for each program. Each course has a unit value and this is ten (10) for most courses at the University of Newcastle. A normal full-time study load is 80 units in any year or 40 units per semester. This means that one year of equivalent full-time student load (EFTSL) is 80 units.

Courses are grouped into a number of academic subject areas where the first four letter abbreviation at the beginning of the course code tells you its subject area. A full list of academic subject areas is available.

Check the requirements of your program in the Undergraduate eHandbook. Then have a look at the table further down this page called 2008 Student Contribution by Academic Subject Area where the subject areas are grouped into Bands.

For example, if in 2008 you were to undertake 3 courses in Education at the National Priority level (EDUC), 2 courses in Philosophy (PHIL), 2 courses in History (HIST) and 1 course in Chemistry (CHEM) then you would calculate your contribution as follows:

EDUC (National Priority): 3 x 509 = 1527

PHIL (Band 1): 2 x 636 = 1272

HIST (Band 1): 2 x 636 = 1272

CHEM (Band 2): 1 x 907 = 907

TOTAL = $4978

The above example assumes all courses have a 10 unit value. If a course has a value other than 10, then the calculation needs to be weighted appropriately.

You can estimate costs for later years based on these rates. However, Student Contributions are increased each year.

Remember that you can take out a HECS-HELP loan to pay some or all of your Student Contribution if you are an eligible student.

2008 Student Contribution by Academic Subject Area

This table presents the academic subject areas in the 4 bands. The fees listed are in Australian dollars (AUD), for one year of equivalent full-time student load (EFTSL), which is 80 units, and then for each 10 units of study.

Academic Subject Areas

Student
Contribution
per full-time year
i.e. one EFTSL
(in AUD)

Student
Contribution
per 10 units
(in AUD)

National Priority
EDUC^*	NURS^*	EDST^*

$4,077

$509

Band 1
AART	ABOR	AHIS	ARTC	CHIN
CMNS^{^}	CULT	DESN	DRAM	EDST^*
EDUC^*	ENGL	FILM	FREN	GEND
GEOG	GREK	GRMN	HIST	HUMA
IDEA^{^}	JAPN	LATN	LEGL^{^}	LEIS^{^}
LGAL	LING	MUSI	NURS^*	PHIL
POLI	PSYC^{^}	RELI	SOCA^{^}	SOCS
SPSW	SWRK^{^}	TEHE	THEO

$5,095

$636

Band 2
ARBE	ARCH	AVIA	BIOL	BLDG
CATH	CHEE	CHEM	CIVL	COMP
EBUS	ELEC	EMGT^{^}	ENVE	ENVS
EPID	FORS	FSHN	GENG	GEOS
HLSC^{^}	HPRO	HUBS	INFO	INFT
MARI	MATH	MECH	MRSC	NUDI
OCCT	OHSE^{^}	PDTY	PHTY	PHYS
PUBH^{^}	SCIM^{^}	SENG	SPOR	SPTH
SRMT^{^}	STAT	STEC	SURV

$7,260

$907

Band 3
ACFI	BUSN	ECON	ECOS	IBUS
IRHR	LAWS	MEDI^{^}	MKTG	MNGT
ORHL	TOUR

$8,499

$1,062

^* Most courses in these subject areas are in the National Priority Band. However, some are in Band 1 or 2. Click here for further details.

^{^} Most courses in these subject areas are in the Band as displayed in the table. However, some are in a dfferent Band. Click here for further details.

Note: For students who are transferring in 2008 from the Bachelor of Design (Architecture) to the Master of Architecture and who were pre-2005 students in the bachelor course, the student contribution amount is equivalent to the pre-2005 HECS Contributions.