Respond to your offer
Congratulations! We're thrilled to offer you a place to study at Deakin. You have three options to respond to your offer: accept and enrol, defer, or decline.
Accept and enrol
To accept and enrol in your course at Deakin, follow these steps:
Activate your Deakin account by creating a username and password
Plan your course by viewing your course map in the University Handbook
Enrol for the first time in StudentConnect
Proceed to the following pages for detailed information about how to complete these steps. Accepting your offer and enrolling in your course will take approximately 30 minutes, so set aside some time to ensure you're prepared.
Defer
You can postpone starting your course at Deakin. This is called deferring – it allows you to keep your place at university for up to one year. If you intend to defer, you should not enrol in your course. However, there are restrictions and some courses that can't be deferred. Visit the How to defer website to find out more. If your offer can be deferred, you can complete the VTAC deferral of offer form or the direct deferral of offer form now.
Decline
If you applied to Deakin through the Application Portal and want to decline your offer, please go back to the portal and respond to your offer by declining.
If you applied through VTAC, or don't have access to the Application Portal, you can complete the decline your offer form.
If you have questions about your offer or you're unsure if you will accept, we're here to support you. You can speak with one of our student advisers who can help you decide.
Multiple offers
If you’ve received multiple offers (from Deakin or from other institutions), now is the time to decide which course you want to enrol in. It is important that you choose which offer/s you’re going to accept, and defer or decline your other offers – for example, if you accept and enrol in a course at Deakin, you will have to decline any other offers you've received from other institutions by following their process. Similarly, if you accept and enrol in a course but then change your mind and take up a new offer (at Deakin or elsewhere), you need to withdraw from the first course so you don’t incur any fees for it.