Statement of Purpose

The Statement of Purpose (SOP) is the decision maker of your application. It helps the admission committee assess your take on life, your career goals, beliefs, subject knowledge, and your vision.

Statement of Purpose refers to an essay that states your purpose of applying to a particular course or university is a document that is required by the universities abroad. It is needed to justify your intention of studying abroad

Statement of Purpose also known as Personal statement generally required by universities abroad stating details about you, your past academics, study gaps (if any), your goals and intentions, reason for the particular course and university, reason for not studying in the home country and future prospects of the chosen course etc. For Australia SOP is required for student visa and it shows proof of Genuine Temporary Entrant.

A University you chose to apply for a course requires to assess your candidature before they make you an offer. The generally try to assess whether you are a genuine student and whether, if offered, you would be a student they would like to enrol in their programs. Like you chose a University, they also have certain entry criteria on back of which they assess students. Australian Government also require Universities to assess whether a student is a genuine temporary entrant or not. One of the ways the Universities assess this is by requiring an applicant to submit an SOP, or a Statement of Purpose why they are applying to the particular University, country and course. What would they gain by pursuing this course. If you dont furnish a SOP, generally most universities would not make you an offer unless you submit it. An SOP will also be required when you go for the VISA interview, and documentation all across make SOP mandatory in most cases ( I have not yet come across a situation where an SOP has been dispensed with, before you ask me this question).