After the admission interview, some universities (if everything is okey) can make an offer/reject the application within a week. However, most of the universities take at least two to four weeks of standard period to make a decision. So be mindful, that admission process can run longer.
At this stage, the designated admission consultant would process your application with number of universities for several similar courses. It is because, depending on your academic merit and availability of place on the course, university would decide your application on the course that you would apply as your first choice. If you are accepted for your fist choice, the consultant would invite you to complete Step 6(acceptance of offer) and continue with other steps.
However, you may not be accepted on your first preferred course by the particular university. If this happens, the consultant will try to talk to the university and endeavour to get you onto the university as it is your first choice. If the consultant’s effort becomes unsuccessful, you would be given other choices for admission with slight change of the plan for the course as mentioned above. Once you have made some compromise based on the situation explained above and accept the second or third offer for admission on a particular course, the admission consultant would guide you to the next step to accept the offer.
If you have been accepted by the university, you would be made an offer of admission. This is called admission offer. It comes in two categories such as a conditional offer of admission and an unconditional offer of admission for a particular course.
Conditional offer of a place
A conditional offer in made to students who need to fulfil some additional requirements before accelerating it to an unconditional offer. These conditions vary students to students. However, some of the common conditions of an offer can be that university might ask you to complete your English language test (if you have not done so during the application process) or the University might ask you to sit for an English test again to get the require grade on a particular component of your English test to make you eligible for admission at the course you have applied for. For example, in your IELTS test that you have submitted as evidence of your English proficiency, your overall score is 6. But on the writing component you only scored 4.5 which is too low to offer you a place on the course. In such case the university would make you a conditional offer asking you to sit for IELTS exam again and get the benchmarked score (let us say 5.5) on the writing component and accelerate the conditional offer to an unconditional on.
If you fail to fulfil your attached condition on your offer letter, it is unlikely that you would get access to the course. Your designated admission consultant would guide your through to fulfill your condition if you are made a conditional offer.
Unconditional offer of a place
In such case, there are no condition attached to the offer letter and student can get to the next stage of admission process which is the acceptance or rejection of the offer.
Important information regarding your offer letter
Your offer letter either it is a conditional or an unconditional would have information of the course you would be attending, annual fees the university is charging for your yearly tuition, the course start and end dates, teaching campus or building, enrolment process, and date by which you must accept or reject the offer or fulfil the condition of offer before it become invalid.
Your designated admission consultant would guide you through this process, however, you should ask questions regarding your offer letter and its attached conditions so that the admission consultant can help you with your concerns.