Undergraduate · Nursing & Health Sciences
Bachelor of Physiotherapy
University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, WA / Sydney, NSW, Australia
About this program
A four-year professional degree accredited by the Australian Physiotherapy Council, leading to registration eligibility with AHPRA. Notre Dame runs this out of its Fremantle health sciences facilities, with clinical placement hours spread across public hospital, private practice, aged care, and sports settings. The degree emphasises hands-on clinical skills training in on-campus labs well before students go into placement, using the same anatomy and clinical skills facilities shared with the university's medical and nursing programs.
Given Notre Dame's smaller cohort compared to the bigger physiotherapy schools in the region, students get more individual attention in practical skills classes, which the school markets directly to prospective students.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
5 terms of coursework
- Year 1: Anatomy, Physiology, Biomechanics, Introduction to Physiotherapy Practice
- Year 2: Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy, Neurological Physiotherapy, Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy, clinical skills labs
- Year 3: clinical placements begin (hospital, private practice), Exercise Physiology, Pain Science
- Year 4: extended clinical placements (aged care, paediatrics, sports, community), Professional Practice, capstone case-based assessment
- Placement: clinical hours across acute, community, private practice, and sports settings, AHPRA-aligned
Admissions
Indicative ATAR of approximately 85-90 or equivalent; interview and/or portfolio may be required due to clinical placements