Entomologist (ANZSCO 234521)

On the Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Entomologist on?

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Entomologist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Entomologist is a Group A occupation: a bachelor's degree or higher in a highly relevant field, plus at least one year of post-qualification employment at an appropriate skill level in the last five years, 20 hours or more a week. Its own page excludes Parasitologist and Microbiologist from its own code, and separately lists "Entomologist (Biosecurity)" and "Medical Entomologist" as occupations considered suitable under this code — meaning those two specialist entomology titles route here rather than elsewhere, while the two adjacent life-science specialisms named as exclusions do not.

Where these applications come unstuck

The genuinely load-bearing issue with this code is not its own exclusion list but a finding on a different page entirely: Zoologist's own occupation page independently lists "Entomologist" as one of its own suitable occupations, alongside Mammologist and Ornithologist. That is a real, sourced overlap between two separate VETASSESS occupation pages — not a single settled answer either way — and it carries a genuine visa-list consequence, since the two codes sit on materially different lists (see reality below). This is not resolved by either page alone; a direct enquiry to VETASSESS is the only way to settle which code correctly describes a given entomology role.

An honest read on this pathway

Entomologist is CSOL-only — 186 and 482, both requiring employer sponsorship, with no points-tested route at all under this specific code. Zoologist, which its own page names Entomologist as suitable under, carries MLTSSL and CSOL and reaches all eight visas including 189, 190, 485 and 491. That gap is the practical stakes of the open question above: an entomologist without a sponsoring employer lined up has a real reason to check whether their work could instead be evidenced under Zoologist, where a points-tested pathway genuinely exists.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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