Local Student Course Fees & Payment Methods

 

In order to reserve a place, all local applicants who receive a Letter of Offer are required to pay a refundable deposit of $2,000 (AUD) within 14 working days of receiving their offer. The balance of course fees are to be paid as outlined below.

Payment options

Payment Up Front $14,000 (AUD)

  • $2,000 (AUD) deposit due within 14 days of receiving offer
  • $12,000 (AUD) due prior to commencement of first semester - 17th February 2010

or

Payment By Semester  $14,500 (AUD)
Fee Schedule:             

  • $2,000 (AUD) deposit due within 14 days of receiving offer
  • $6250 (AUD) due prior to commencement of first semester - 17th February 2010
  • $6250 (AUD)  due prior to commencement of second semester - 22nd July 2010

Please note all students are required to sign a student agreement that will be issued by the school before their application is considered complete. This agreement contains important information under the ESOS act.

The agreement also contains advice on the potential for fees to change during the student's course, fair and reasonable refund policies, information about the grounds on which the student's enrolment may be deferred, suspended or cancelled.

Click here to view example student agreement

► Additional Costs:

We recommend that students have their own external hard drives to store their film & video projects on and that your data is backed up regularly.

This is also useful when you want to create a showreel of your work.

Because different computers have various connections for the external drive, we recommend the drive you buy has at least USB 2.0, Firewire 400 and Firewire 800 connections and cables, and optionally an eSATA connection and cable (newer laptops and computers have the faster eSATA connectors). The drive's capacity needs to be a minimum of 500Gigabytes, ideally 1Terrabyte. The speed of the drive needs to be at least 7200RPM.

Not all drives are suitable for editing. A cheaper drive may not be fast enough, or cope with being moved from computer to computer. The price of external hard drives varies depending on the brand, features and capacity. The cost for a good quality drive will be around $160 for the 500GB to around $350 for a 1TB drive.