Region. University offers

The University of Western Sydney is making 11,334 offers to prospective students this year - the largest number of university offers of any university in NSW and ACT.Large numbers of offers are being made across the university’s programs, with many of the popular course trends in 2012 linked to workforce demand, national skills shortages and emerging career opportunities. UWS experienced an overall increase in first preferences of 2.5 per cent this year. Demand has been particularly strong among school leavers, with a 4.8 per cent increase.

Region. Surge in university applications

UWS, like other universities, is experiencing a surge applications, reflecting a growing number of mature-aged applicants returning to education. A strong demand exists for business and commerce, policing, psychology and nursing – more than 1000 first preferences were received for its bachelor of nursing. New combined degrees such as the bachelor of arts/master of primary teaching and bachelor of health science/master of physiotheraphy have received 500 and 300 first preferences respectively. The bachelor of medicine/bachelor of surgery received more than 600 first preferences,according to The Australian Financial Review.