You need to meet specific entry requirements to get into each of our courses. They're usually based on previous study and/or professional experience.
Some courses may have additional entry requirements, including:
- referee reports, interviews, questionnaires
- professional training, accreditation or registration
- access to related work or facilities.
If your previous studies were not completed in English, or were completed in a country where English is not the first language, you'll need to demonstrate that you meet our English proficiency requirements.
Check your course details online for more information on entry requirements.
Calculating your grade point average (GPA)
For some of our postgraduate courses you need to have achieved a particular grade point average (GPA) in your previous course to be eligible to apply.
If your previous course was made up of units with equal credit point values, your GPA is the sum of your grades for each unit divided by the number of units you attempted.
When you calculate your GPA you must:
- include all:
- numerical grades, including failing grades
- administrative failures, such as 'withdrawn' or 'did not sit'
- attempts at repeated units
- exclude all:
- units for which you received exemption, credit for prior learning or advanced standing
- calculate it to two decimal places. If the average you've calculated has more than two decimal places, you'll need to round it to nearest hundredth. For example, after rounding 3.9945 becomes 3.99, or 4.999 becomes 5.00.
If your course was made up of units with unequal credit point values, we apply a weighting to calculate your GPA.
We use a 7-point grading scale at QUT:
- 7.00 - High Distinction
- 6.00 - Distinction
- 5.00 - Credit
- 4.00 - Pass
- 3.00 - Fail
- 2.00 - Fail
- 1.00 - Low Fail
- 0.00 - Withdrawn with academic penalty/Did not sit.
If your studies have been graded using a different scale, we'll convert your results to the QUT scale. Using this scale, a failing GPA is any GPA below 4.00.
For our one-year honours degrees, excluding PY09 Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Honours Psychology), the following additional GPAs will be calculated based on the same rules as above should your course GPA below the entry requirement:
- QUT double degree students – the GPA for the relevant component single degree will be used (eg if completed a business/law double degree and applying for business honours your GPA for the business degree will be used)
- GPA based on all third-year units.
What if I'm suspended or excluded from tertiary study?
If you're currently suspended from a higher education institution for reasons other than failure, we may refuse admission.
Special rules apply if you’ve been excluded from a study program that’s in a ‘like’ discipline to the QUT course you want to apply for. If it’s been at least one year since your exclusion, we'll consider your application if you meet one of these criteria and you have provided supporting documentation with your application:
- you’ve since passed (i.e. GPA 4.00 or better) ‘like’ study (either a completed ‘like’ diploma or one year of full-time ‘like’ degree study)
- you have five years’ full-time (or equivalent) ‘like’ professional work experience.
The ‘like’ disciplines are:
- architecture and built environment
- business, commerce, management, and tourism
- creative and performing arts, and communication
- education
- engineering
- health and medical science
- information technology
- justice
- law
- psychology and behavioural science
- science and mathematics
- social work, human services, and counselling.
If you're concerned about your eligibility to get in because of the 'like' rule, suspension or exclusion, contact askqut@qut.edu.au
Domestic applicants with overseas qualifications
We will consider equivalent overseas qualifications for admissions purposes. If you have tertiary qualifications from countries where English is not the standard language of instruction, you must provide evidence of English language proficiency.
English language proficiency
We require students to demonstrate they can speak, write, read and comprehend academic English to a specified standard.
Our English proficiency requirements for most postgraduate courses are:
- IELTS (Academic): 6.5 or better overall with no sub-score below 6.0
- PTE: 58 or better overall with no sub-score below 50
- TOEFL (IBT): 79 or better overall with a writing sub-score of 21 or better, a speaking sub-score of 18 or better and no other sub-score lower than 16
- CAE: 176 or better overall with no sub-score below 169
The test must have been completed within 2 years prior to the proposed course start month.
Where a course has higher English proficiency requirements it will be shown in the requirements tab for the course.