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title: "Considering your pathway"
site: "Scotch Global Connect"
url: "https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/ibdp-considering-your-pathway"
description: "Choosing a career, university and undergraduate degree is an important part of your child's final year at school. Understanding the admissions process for universities across the world is challenging with each institution setting its specific requirements."
published: "2024-04-11"
updated: "2024-08-06"
---

# Considering your pathway

Choosing a career, university and undergraduate degree is an important part of your child's final year at school. Understanding the admissions process for universities across the world is challenging with each institution setting its specific requirements.

## Considering  your pathway

After the IB Diploma Programme

## Choosing a career, university and undergraduate degree is an important part of your child's final year at school. Understanding the admissions process for universities across the world is challenging with each institution setting its specific requirements.

We aim to simplify this process and give your child the guidance they need. From choosing the right degree to making their admissions application stand out, your child’s pathway into university and success after school is important to us.

## Medical science pathway

### [Course selection](https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/schedule/ibdp-medical-science-pathway-course-selection)

| **Group** | **Subject** | **Level** |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Language and literature in English | SL |
| 1 | Language and literature in Chinese | HL |
| 3 | Economics | SL |
| 4 | Chemistry | HL |
| 4 | Biology | SL |
| 5 | Analysis and approaches | HL |

Qualify for the bilingual IB Diploma.
To qualify for medicine, many universities require an undergraduate degree.

### [University entry requirements](https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/schedule/ibdp-medical-science-pathway-university-entry-requirements)

| **Universities** | **IBDP score** | **Interview** | **Assessment** | **Additional requirements** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curtin University | 37 | Yes | UCAT\* | Grade 4 in chemistry |
| University of Western Australia | 42 | Yes | UCAT\* | Grade 4 in all subjects Grade 5 in English B HL |
| University of New South Wales | 38 | Yes | UCAT\*† |  |
| University of Oxford | 39 | Yes |  | Chemistry HL and one of the following: biology, physics or  analysis and approaches Grade of 7, 6 and 6 in HL subjects |

\* University clinical aptitude test in verbal reasoning, decision making, quantitative reasoning and abstract reasoning.
† Score above the 50th percentile.

## Chemical engineering pathway

### [Course selection](https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/schedule/ibdp-chemical-engineering-pathway-course-selection)

| **Group** | **Subject** | **Level** |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Language and literature in Chinese | SL |
| 1 | Language B English | HL |
| 3 | Economics | SL |
| 4 | Chemistry | HL |
| 4 | Physics | SL |
| 5 | Analysis and approaches | HL |

### [University entry requirements](https://global.scotch.wa.edu.au/connect/schedule/ibdp-chemical-engineering-pathway-university-entry-requirements)

| **Universities** | **IBDP score** | **Minimum pre-requisite** | **Additional** |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curtin University | 29 | Analysis and approaches | Physics or chemistry |
| University of Western Australia | 29 | Analysis and approaches | Analysis and approaches HL or physics or chemistry |
| The Australian National University | 32 | Analysis and approaches HL |  |
| University of New South Wales | 34 | Analysis and approaches HL | Physics or chemistry |
| University of Oxford | 40 | Analysis and approaches HL Physics HL Grade 7, 7 and 6 in HL subjects |  |
| University of Cambridge | 41 | Analysis and approaches HL Physics HL Grade 7, 7 and 6 in HL subjects |  |

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