The number of first preferences to study education courses at CSU has increased 26 per cent, while the first preferences for health related courses, including nursing and medical imaging, have increased 11 per cent.

Almost 1 800 offers to study at CSU will be released today, as part of the main round university offers.

Arts courses, particularly advertising, have maintained their demand, while demand for information technology courses has also risen, particularly the Bachelor of Computer Science (Games Technology) degree, which is only in its second year.

CSU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Goulter said the courses in most demand were also those where the graduates were in high demand.

“Particularly in secondary teaching courses and health areas such as physiotherapy we have graduates who are in high demand, with many being employed in our regions. It is pleasing to know these strong demand courses are supplying professionals to our regions,” he said.

“Despite the recent turmoil in the IT industry, our preferences indicate IT is as strong as ever, which again is important for the CSU region, as such professionals are going to be increasingly important to our regions’ future prosperity.”

Highlights by Campus

Albury-Wodonga 

On the Albury-Wodonga Campus, the community health courses, such as physiotherapy, podiatry and speech pathology continue to be very popular with high quality students. The early childhood teaching degree also showed strong demand.

Bathurst

On CSU’s Bathurst Campus, the traditionally strong communication courses have once again attracted high calibre students, while the human movement programs, and associated double degrees in journalism, psychology or teaching are very popular.

Education courses continue to be in high demand on the Bathurst Campus, along with the Bachelor of Computer Science (Games Technology) degree, where admission is highly competitive. 

Dubbo

In Dubbo the new early childhood teaching degree has been in very strong demand, as has the nursing program, while places are still available in the new double degree teaching programs being offered under the Federal Government’s Backing Australia’s Ability initiative. 

Applications to study either a Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Teaching or Bachelor of IT/Bachelor of Teaching should be made directly to the Student Administration Office on (02) 6338 4318.

Wagga Wagga

On the Wagga Wagga Campus, education courses have experienced a significant increase in demand.

The traditional agriculture and information technology courses were also in strong demand along with courses in the visual and performing arts areas.

Pharmacy and medical imaging also continued to attract large number of students.