Take advantage of our flexible study options to maximise your semester in Brisbane. We offer more than a thousand individual units and several ready-made packages so you can choose what you’d like to study.

All available units

Create your own study plan. Take a look at all the unit options available. Choose from across study areas or focus on one, depending on your interests.

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Study packages

We've done the hard work for you and created  packages for some of our study areas. You'll study four set units, and won't have to worry about timetable clashes.

Business

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Design

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Education

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Justice

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Law

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Nursing

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Science

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Choose units by study area

Put together your own study plan based on your interests.

Explore the range of units on offer across our study areas.

Business

Make your mark in the business world with our internationally accredited business school.

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Creative industries

Study practical and entertaining subjects in one of Australia's leading universities known for excellence in the creative industries.

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Education

Learn how to engage and inspire the next generation by studying education units. Choose from our professional experience packages.

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Engineering

Engineers are building our future, and our units will prepare you to work anywhere in the world.

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Health

We offer real-world clinical and practical training both on placements and in our multimillion-dollar facilities.

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Justice

Help create a fairer world by studying contemporary issues in justice, policy and policing.

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Law

Develop a strong understanding and foundational knowledge of contemporary law while you study in one of Australia’s leading law schools.

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Science

Curious to learn how the world works? Build your knowledge in science, technology and mathematics.

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QUT College

The QUT College offers a range of English language and academic units. If you don't meet the English language entry requirements, you can study an English program or a combination of English and academic units.

Study abroad with English

How to choose units

You’ll have to be enrolled full-time while you’re here, which means studying at least three units. As a guide, a 12-credit-point QUT unit is usually equal to:

  • 4 US credits
  • 7.5 ECTS
  • 15 UK credits.

Confirm this with your home institution to be sure.

Most QUT students study four units a semester (48 credit points), which is considered a standard load. Under special circumstances, you may be able to study five units in a semester (60 credit points).

Even though you’ll only study three to five units, you should select six or more for your application to QUT. This is in case your timetable clashes or we are unable approve some of your preferences.

Transdisciplinary study

You can study units across any of our faculties, as long as you meet any necessary prerequisites.

Changing units

You can change units up to the end of the second week of semester. If you want to change units, you must:

  • meet all the requirements for your new unit
  • get approval from your home institution for the change
  • email stae@qut.edu.au to request a change.

Prior study

Units are classed as either ‘Approved’ or ‘Require approval'. You do not need to have completed prior study for approved units.

Units that require approval usually have prerequisite study. This means you must demonstrate that you have the required knowledge to take the unit based on your previous studies. To show that you have the required knowledge, you should submit your home university transcript and detailed unit outlines (in English) of the units you have completed, or are completing, at your home institution.

Some units have corequisites, which means that there is another unit you need to study at the same time. If you want to study a unit with a corequisite, you must also apply to study the related unit.

Earning credit for your study

To earn credit towards your home degree, you must make sure that your proposed units are approved by your own university. Approved study will let you transfer your academic credit to your degree at your home university.

Units about Australia

What better place to learn about Australia than during your semester in Brisbane? If you have a space for an elective, consider the following approved and uniquely Australian undergraduate-level units:

Become a future leader

Daan - Belgium

'At QUT I have acquired the necessary skills to become a future leader in my field of study. It is a great experience to study abroad, learning valuable life skills and making friends from all over the world.'

Contact us

Please contact us if you have questions about choosing your units.