What you will be required to submit

Requirements do vary between courses, so it is important to check any unique requirements prior to submission. Your application will need to include a number of mandatory items. For most applcations these include:

• Personal and contact details,
• Photographic Proof of Idenity, 
• Document/s to confirm citizenship and residency status,
• Current C.V,
• Academic Transcript of highest completed relevent formal education.

Where indicated, documents must be certified as a true copy of the original unless otherwise stated. 

CPEE accepts scanned documents submitted online in support of applications for admission to its programs. All submitted supporting documents must be true and complete records. Applicants should be prepared to provide original documents or original certified copies of supporting documents upon request at any time.

As part of the admission process CPEE may contact the original issuing authority, educational or other relevant organisation or individual, whether in Australia or overseas, to verify submitted documents. A failure to provide documents on request, or the discovery of either fraudulent documents or a misrepresentation of true circumstances in association with your application, may lead to the rejection of the application for admission, the withdrawal of offer, or the cancellation of enrolment.

Supporting Documentation

Additional supporting documentation may be required to support your application based on your circumstances.

Supporting documents must be provided to CPEE as certified copies of original documents. A certified copy (often a photocopy) is an endorsement or certificate stating that it is a true copy of the original document.

• Certified supporting documentation
  • When sending your documents and academic transcripts with your application, please be sure to send only certified copies, DO NOT send original documents. Academic transcripts are not required if you have previously studied with the Centre for Pavement Engineering Education within the last 10 years.
• Who can certify my documents?
  • In Australia people from the following professional and occupational groups:
    • an accountant – member of a recognised professional accounting body or a Registered Tax Agent
    • a person listed on the roll of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory or the High Court of Australia as a legal practitioner
    • a barrister, solicitor or patent attorney
    • a police officer
    • a postal manager
    • a principal of an Australian secondary college, high school or primary school
    • a medical practitioner
    • a Justice of the Peace (with a registration number in the State in which they are registered)
    • a minister of religion
    • An authorised officer at:
    • a tertiary admissions centre: UAC, VTAC, QTAC, SATAC, TISC;
    • the Admissions Officer or Student Services Office at any Australian university or TAFE college
    • the official records department of the institution that originally issued the document(s)
  • Who can certify documents outside of Australia?
    • an authorised officer of an Australia overseas diplomatic mission
    • an authorised officer of an Australian Education Centre
    • a school headmaster or other recognised examining authority

All official documents submitted must be certified for authenticity.  Certification of documents should follow the Australian guideline: https://www.justice.vic.gov.au/certifiedcopies 

All applications require proof of citizenship. Different types of proof are acceptable depending on whether you are an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or international applicant.

If you are an Australian Citizen proof may be one of the following:

• Australian Birth Certificate or
• Current Australian Passport

If you are a Permanent Resident (including humanitarian visa holders)

• Current Passport (showing Perment Residency visa) or
• Permanent Resident Visa Documents

Other applicants including international.

• Birth Certificate or
• Current Passport

For relevant qualifications:

• Provide a copy of the Certificate or confirmation of completion from the institute there you studied.
• Provide a copy of your official record of results for all relevant tertiary studies. Academic records must include a key to the grades or marks shown.

Qualifications from overseas institutions

• Applicants with qualifications from overseas institutions should provide a translated English copy of their qualification with their application form

You must meet the English language requirements of CPEE to be eligible for a place. As a graduate student, you can satisfy the English language requirements in a number of ways depending on your circumstances. In order to meet the requirements, you must fulfil one of the options below.

• TOEFL, IELTS or Pearson Test of English or Cambridge English: Advanced/Certificate in Advanced English (CAE). You can use TOEFL, IELTS, Pearson Test of English (academic tests) or CAE to meet the University's English language requirements. You must satisfy the requirements in one sitting and within the 24 months preceding application.

Students must have access to the internet, email, word processing and spreadsheet programs for the duration of their study.

CPEE may award Specified Credit or Unspecified Credit. The awarding of credit means that a student who successfully applies for credit shall have a reduced number of Units to complete their CPEE program to meet the requirement for graduation. For example, a CPEE student who has been awarded 2 Units of Credit in the Masters of Pavement Technology will need to complete (pass) a further 6 Units to meet graduation requirements.

FM002: Application For Academic Credit

PR042: Procedure for Awarding of Academic Credit

In respect to study hours, we estimate that students would need to devote approximately 10 study hours per week, per unit. These study hours are inclusive of teaching time (e.g. lectures, online teaching), independent study, assessment tasks and/or examination time. Our semesters are broken down into study and exam periods. The study period is 15 weeks duration per semester. We state that the student study workload for each unit is 150 hours over the student period. 10hrs*15wks = 150hrs.

Each of our units has an equivalent full time student load (EFTSL) of 0.125 (12.5%).
The study of one unit in a semester would be an ETFSL of 12.5%. A standard full-time load is eight units in the academic year (8*12.5%= 100% or 1 EFTSL). For our programs a full time study load would be 4 units per semester.

Each CPEE unit is worth one (1) credit point unless otherwise specified. One credit point involves a student workload of approximately 10 hours per week over a semester.