Vietnam grade
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Vietnam → Australia
Converting Vietnam grades for study in Australia
Australia is the destination that actually publishes numbers. Where Canada offers two tables that disagree and Japan converts almost nothing, a dozen Australian universities state a Vietnamese minimum on Vietnam’s own 10-point scale, by name, on their own admissions pages — and two publish a genuine ATAR equivalence. The calculator above remains a planning estimate; the published figures below are the ones to plan against.
There is also one thing about Australian admissions that almost nothing written outside Vietnam explains, and it can move your requirement by half a grade point.
Which high school you attended changes the number
Australian universities systematically treat graduates of a trường THPT chuyên — a specialised or “gifted” high school — differently from other Vietnamese applicants. Some lower the threshold. Some accept the qualification only from those schools. Wollongong publishes both tiers, which is what makes the concession measurable:
| Year 12 GPA needed | Bachelor Group 1 | Bachelor Group 2 | Bachelor Group 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard high school | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 |
| Gifted high school | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 |
University of Wollongong country qualification equivalencies, last edited 11 August 2026. “Scores are based on the overall reported GPA out of 10.” Groups 1–3 are UOW’s course competitiveness bands, Group 3 being the most competitive.
A flat 0.5 concession at every level. Elsewhere the gate is harder than a discount:
- UTS accepts the Vietnamese Grade 12 certificate for direct entry only from gifted schools. Everyone else must first complete “at least one full-time year at bachelor’s degree level at a recognised university”.
- ANU states it flatly: “Applicants must be from one of the already approved High Schools for the Gifted.”
- Melbourne admits from non-approved schools, but only with an SAT of 1090 or ACT of 20 on top of the GPA. Its approved list runs to 12 schools in Hanoi, 9 in Ho Chi Minh City and 2 in Da Nang.
- UNSW publishes the longest list — 82 gifted and 12 non-gifted schools, 94 in all.
- Macquarie restricts bachelor assessment to “selected schools only” and does not name them. Curtin considers Grade 12 results only from “selected Gifted High Schools”.
If you attended a chuyên school, say so prominently and name it. If you did not, check whether your target university gates on it before assuming your GPA is the only thing being read.
ANU publishes the only full conversion, in both directions
For undergraduate entry, ANU maps the Vietnamese Year 12 GPA to its own entrance rank — a real ATAR-style equivalence, not a band estimate:
| ANU entrance rank | Vietnam Year 12 GPA (/10) |
|---|---|
| 80 | 8.5 |
| 82 | 8.5 |
| 85 | 8.7 |
| 90 | 8.9 |
| 92 | 9.0 |
| 94 | 9.1 |
| 95 | 9.2 |
| 97 | 9.3 |
| 98 | 9.3 |
| 99 | 9.5 |
For postgraduate entry from a Vietnamese bachelor’s degree, ANU publishes the only country conversion of its kind we found in Australia:
| ANU GPA (/7) | Vietnamese GPA (/10) |
|---|---|
| 4.0 | 5.00 |
| 4.5 | 5.83 |
| 5.0 | 6.66 |
| 5.5 | 7.50 |
| 6.0 | 8.33 |
That table is worth a second look, because it is linear and anchored at the pass mark. ANU’s 4.0/7 is its pass; it maps to 5.0/10, which is exactly the cumulative average Circular 08/2021 Article 14 §1 requires to graduate in Vietnam. Rather than assuming the two scales share a top, ANU has lined up the two floors and stretched between them. It is the most defensible conversion of a Vietnamese average we have seen from any receiving institution — and ANU still hedges it: “Actual conversions may vary based on the university’s rating, grading scale and pass mark for the issued qualification.”
Flinders says the quiet part out loud: 7.0 is an ATAR 65
Flinders heads its whole country table “Minimum Entry Requirement (comparable to an ATAR of 65) to Flinders Bachelor degree”, and gives Vietnam “Completion of the Upper Secondary Education Graduation Diploma with overall grade of 7.0”. So one Australian university states plainly that a Vietnamese 7.0 out of 10 is worth an ATAR of about 65. No aggregator will tell you that, and it is the single most useful sentence on this page if you are shortlisting.
What direct bachelor entry actually costs
Published minimums for direct entry to a bachelor’s degree, on the 10-point scale. Ranges mean the requirement varies by course:
| University | Year 12 GPA | As published |
|---|---|---|
| Flinders | 7.0 | stated as comparable to ATAR 65 |
| RMIT, Vietnam campus | 7.0 | 65% Australian standard band |
| Wollongong (gifted) | 7.5 | Group 1; 8.0 and 8.5 for Groups 2 and 3 |
| Deakin | 7.5–8.5 | by course and campus; Mathematics prerequisite needs 8.5 |
| Adelaide | 7.80 | flat published floor, no school gating |
| RMIT, Australia | 8.0 | 65% band; 9.5 for the 80% band |
| Wollongong (standard) | 8.0 | Group 1 |
| Curtin | 8.00 | Graduation Evaluation score; does not satisfy prerequisites |
| Monash | 8.0–8.57 | by course; Music 8, Actuarial Science 8.56 |
| Sydney | 8.0–9.2 | by degree; Commerce 9.2, approved schools only |
| Melbourne | 8.2–9.3 | by degree; Commerce 9.0, Oral Health 9.3 |
| ANU | 8.5+ | entrance rank 80; 9.5 for rank 99 |
Read from each university’s own admissions page or guide. Requirements change yearly and a minimum is a floor, not a competitive target — confirm on the university’s own site before relying on any figure.
RMIT asks less of you in Vietnam than in Melbourne
RMIT publishes two tables for the same qualification. For the same Australian standard of 65%, a Vietnamese school leaver needs an average of 8.0 to enter a bachelor’s degree in Australia and 7.0 at RMIT’s Vietnam campus. RMIT Vietnam states that “Students enrolled at RMIT University Vietnam graduate with a degree from RMIT in Melbourne” — so the qualification at the end is the same one, reached from a lower entry bar and without leaving the country. Whether that is the right choice is a different question, but it is a real option that the conversion arithmetic never surfaces.
Postgraduate entry is barely published at all
The contrast with undergraduate is stark. Outside ANU’s table above, almost no Australian university publishes a Vietnamese postgraduate minimum. UNSW’s postgraduate entry-score guidance covers six countries — China, India, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Taiwan — and Vietnam is not among them. UQ has retired its country equivalency pages and now says only that it will “convert the grades you received in your previous studies to the UQ grading scale”, a 7-point scale where 4 is a pass. Flinders asks for “the equivalent of a three-year Australian bachelors degree” and no number. Melbourne, Sydney, Monash and Adelaide have no country-based postgraduate table at all.
If you are applying for a master’s with a Vietnamese bachelor’s degree, ANU’s conversion is the only published anchor, and everywhere else you should expect an individual assessment rather than a table.
One thing to check on the Australian side
Australian grade bands are not what most conversion tables assume. Across the Australian universities in our registry, the top grade — High Distinction — starts at 80% at some institutions and 85% at most. None starts it at 90%, though several widely-circulated international tables claim otherwise. Before you convert anything in the other direction, check how the Australian scale actually works and the grade table that gets misattributed.
Sources
The documents this page rests on. Every one was read in full unless noted.
- ANU — Vietnam upper secondary education — the Year 12 GPA to entrance-rank table (rank 80 = 8.5 up to rank 99 = 9.5). Verified directly.
- ANU — postgraduate indicative entry, Vietnam — the only full postgraduate conversion found in Australia, 4.0/7 = 5.00/10 to 6.0/7 = 8.33/10, linear and anchored at the pass mark. Verified directly.
- Flinders University — country-specific undergraduate entry requirements (PDF) — the column headed “comparable to an ATAR of 65”, giving Vietnam 7.0. Verified directly.
- University of Wollongong — country qualification equivalencies (last edited 11 August 2026) — the only university publishing both tiers, standard 8.0 against gifted 7.5. Verified directly.
- UNSW — List of Accepted High Schools in Viet Nam (PDF) — 94 named schools, 82 of them gifted.
- University of Melbourne — direct entry for Vietnamese students — per-degree GPAs, the approved gifted-school list by city, and the SAT 1090 or ACT 20 requirement for non-approved schools.
- RMIT — Vietnam country equivalency — two tables for the same qualification: 8.0 for the Australian campuses and 7.0 for the Vietnam campus at the same 65% standard.
Deakin, Adelaide, Curtin, Monash, Sydney, UTS, Macquarie and Griffith are linked inline where their figures appear.
Every figure on this page was read from the university’s own website or its own PDF, linked above. Where an institution publishes nothing for Vietnam, we say so rather than filling the gap from an agent or a converter site.
Admission is decided by the university, not by this page. The figures on your official Vietnamese transcript are always the authoritative ones.
Is it competitive?
Most Australia master's programmes look for the equivalent of a US 3.0+ (an upper-second / good average), with competitive and funded programmes wanting more. Convert first, then check each programme's stated minimum. For a credit-weighted multi-course result, use the WES iGPA calculator.
Which Vietnamese rules apply to your transcript depends on when you enrolled. MOET Circular 08/2021 took effect on 3 May 2021 and applies to intakes admitted after that date; earlier intakes fall under the superseded regulations. Institutions on the year-based (niên chế) system do not calculate a 4-point GPA at all. See how Vietnamese grading works before relying on any conversion — and note that a widely-circulated conversion table converts the wrong thing, giving a different grade for most marks.