Chisholm Institute Admission Requirements

This guide is for Nepali students applying to Chisholm Institute in Melbourne, Victoria. It covers the acceptance rate, the grades and English scores you need, the documents to prepare in Nepal and each step from application to student visa. For campuses, fees and scholarships, see our Chisholm Institute profile, and for courses and intakes, our Chisholm courses guide. The wider picture is in our guide to studying in Australia from Nepal.

What is Chisholm Institute’s acceptance rate?

Chisholm Institute doesn’t publish an acceptance rate. Percentages quoted on other websites are outside estimates, not official numbers.

What decides an offer is meeting your course’s academic and English requirements. Chisholm also assesses you against the Genuine Student requirement, using your education, your work history and your immigration history. You may be asked to attend a pre-admission interview, and some courses have strictly limited places. A college offer doesn’t mean a visa, so read the visa note at the end of the steps below.

What grades do you need from Nepal?

Chisholm has no Nepal page or NEB GPA rule, so each course sets its own requirements, and first-year entry asks for Year 12 or an equivalent overseas qualification.

The general rule is on Chisholm’s admission requirements page. We found no country table, so ask Chisholm or an agent how it reads your NEB marks. You must be at least 18 to start, and you may sit a literacy and numeracy assessment. Examples from Chisholm’s course pages:

• Bachelor of Business (Management and Leadership): Year 12 or equivalent within the past two years, a Certificate IV, or some higher education study. There is no minimum Australian Year 12 score.
• Bachelor of Information Technology (Cyber Security): Year 12 or equivalent, with Mathematics passed in Year 11 or 12.
• Bachelor of Engineering Technology (Mechatronics): Year 12 or equivalent, with studies equal to Victoria’s senior Mathematical Methods or Specialist Mathematics.
• Bachelor of Business (Accounting): a completed relevant diploma, or at least one full-time year of higher education passed. A +2 alone doesn’t meet this.
• Bachelor of Psychology: a diploma in health, human resource management, justice or sport and exercise, or one full-time year of higher education passed.
• Diploma of Nursing: Year 12 or equivalent, plus a clear National Police check and a Working with Children Check.
• Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care: the Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care first.

To see where your +2 grades stand, convert your NEB GPA to a percentage with our NEB GPA calculator. If your marks are lower or you have a gap, read about the GPA required to study in Australia and the study gap accepted in Australia.

What English scores does Chisholm Institute accept?

Diplomas usually ask for IELTS Academic 6.0 with no band under 5.0, most bachelor’s degrees 6.0 with no band under 5.5, and nursing 7.0.

Chisholm’s International Study Guide names only IELTS Academic, IELTS One Skill Retake and PTE Academic. The two Chisholm pages differ on nursing PTE: the admission page says 63 and the course page says 66, with writing at 62. Ask Chisholm to confirm in writing before you book a test. The student visa has its own minimum: IELTS 6.0, PTE Academic 47 or TOEFL iBT 67.

If your score falls short, Chisholm’s English pathway partners are ILSC and Browns English Language School, and the admissions team can explain the packages. To compare scores, see our guide to the minimum IELTS and PTE for Australia.

Which documents do you need from Nepal?

You send Chisholm’s signed application form with a certified copy of your passport, certified translated academic records and your English test certificate.

• Certified translated copies of your academic records, including any failed subjects. Our guide explains how to get transcripts in Nepal from NEB, TU and other boards.
• A certified copy of your English test certificate, such as IELTS or PTE.
• A certified copy of your passport’s identification pages. If you don’t have one yet, see getting a Nepali passport for study abroad.
• Your signed declaration, plus your agent’s declaration if you use one.
• Any previous visa refusal documents, because the form asks about them and asks you to attach them.

These come from the checklist in Chisholm’s application form. The form says your application can’t be processed unless the full documents are attached, and it doesn’t return them. Nepali certificates and bank documents often carry Bikram Sambat dates; our Nepali date converter helps you match them to the A.D. dates on your forms.

How do you apply to Chisholm Institute, step by step?

Chisholm strongly recommends applying through an accredited education agent, with no application charge, and you pay your first semester after the offer to get your CoE.

1. Choose your course on Chisholm’s international course list and read its entry requirements.
2. Apply. Chisholm’s how to apply page strongly recommends an accredited agent for students outside Australia. Its guide says it welcomes direct applications, but conditions apply, so email its admissions team first. Our best consultancy for Australia page helps you choose an agent.
3. Get your offer. Chisholm checks the course requirements and the Genuine Student requirement. If you succeed, it sends a Letter of Offer, a Course Acceptance form and payment details. Our Genuine Student guide explains what you need to show.
4. Accept and pay. Return the form with your first semester’s tuition and material fees, and any deposit for a pathway program. To send tuition from a Nepali bank you need a No Objection Certificate (NOC); see how to apply for an NOC in Nepal.
5. Get your CoE and OSHC. Chisholm issues your Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE), and you need OSHC health cover for your whole stay. Chisholm’s preferred provider is Allianz Care Australia, or you can choose another accredited one.
6. Apply for your student visa (subclass 500) with your CoE, OSHC, funds and English result. The fee starts from AUD 2,500. See the Home Affairs student visa page, our SOP guide for an Australia student visa and the financial documents guide.

VET student visa applications from Nepal face tough assessment, and recent Home Affairs data shows very few VET visas granted to applicants from Nepal. Read our Australia visa success rate from Nepal page before you pay. A +2 graduate choosing a diploma must explain why it fits their study and career plan under Genuine Student. Chisholm’s bachelor’s degrees are not VET courses, but the visa isn’t easy for them either.

Our how to apply for an Australia student visa page gives the full timeline, and our branches in Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Chitwan, Itahari and Pokhara can check your file.