Highlights

  • Build a unique creative career that taps into your passions and aspirations. 
  • Prepare to turn creative employment and entrepreneurial opportunities into real career outcomes for a growing creative economy sector.
  • Learn through industry partnerships and networking, and interdisciplinary work. 
  • Choose from one of four first majors to develop your creative thinking and innovation. 
  • Tailor your degree to suit your area of interest.

Highlights

  • Build a unique creative career that taps into your passions and aspirations. 
  • Prepare to turn creative employment and entrepreneurial opportunities into real career outcomes for a growing creative economy sector.
  • Learn through industry partnerships and networking, and interdisciplinary work. 
  • Choose from one of four first majors to develop your creative thinking and innovation. 
  • Tailor your degree to suit your area of interest.

Applications are open for 2025

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Guarantee a place in your course

For this course, if you have completed an AQF certificate IV, diploma or higher, or receive an ATAR or selection rank of 70.00 or higher and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course in 2025.

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Why choose this course?

Problem solving, critical thinking and innovation are now the top three skills employers look for and these vital skills can be applied to a wide range of commercial organisations. Our future-focused degree, Bachelor of Creative Industries (BCI), allows you to develop your own creative niche by providing diverse knowledge, creativity and practical skills across a range of selected creative disciplines. 

The Bachelor of Creative Industries nurtures your creative passion across various majors, equipping you with the agility to continuously create, adapt, and innovate in an ever-evolving world. 

Real-world learning

You’ll be prepared for the real world with studio-based learning, skills in entrepreneurship, real industry challenges, work integrated learning (WIL) opportunities and links to creative start-ups.  With a focus on transferable skills in enterprise and entrepreneurship, working on projects with industry partners like the World Science Festival, Brisbane Open House, Beyond Zero Emissions, Starlight Children's Foundation Australia and Australian Parents for Climate Action in a common final year capstone experience, you’ll have a head start to succeed in a career with flexibility.

Visit the student and graduate blog to find out more about what it’s like to study creative industries and where a QUT degree can take you.

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What to expect

You can’t pigeon-hole creativity. That’s why QUT has designed a degree that combines a range of interdisciplinary skills. The Bachelor of Creative Industries lets you dive into a melting pot of amazing possibilities and absorb the aspects of creativity that are right for you. It sets you up with skills and experiences to create your own opportunities and career outcomes in the creative sector and beyond.

Flexible delivery

The course offers flexibility by allowing you to choose a combination of study areas to suit your individual creative interests and career aspirations. Start your degree in either February or July, and study full-time for three years or the part-time equivalent. 

You can choose your first major from:

  • Creative and professional writing - gain skills and knowledge in the areas of creative or professional writing, including fiction, creative non-fiction, media writing, and corporate writing and editing. 
  • Fashion communication - learn how fashion is communicated, marketed and distributed across a diverse range of contexts and media.  This major prepares you for current and future careers in  the global fashion industry.
  • Interactive and visual design - learn skills and knowledge in the domain of interactive and visual design, including graphic design, image making, information design, web design and designing interfaces for future technologies.
  • Screen content production - develop a range of knowledge in the theory and practice of film and screen, including creative, technical, storytelling and communication skills to set you up for a career in advertising, publicity or marketing.

To complement your chosen major, you may select a second major. All the primary majors listed above can be studied as second majors as well as advertising, integrated marketing communication, marketing, public relations, entrepreneurship and innovation, games design, online environments and property experience.

Alternatively, you can add minors electives from across QUT to your chosen major to develop a wide breath of knowledge across several discipline areas.   

Double degrees

Combine two bachelor degrees into a single course of study. A double degree allows you to specialise in two fields and pursue different interest areas, gaining a broader range of skills and knowledge, and giving you a competitive advantage and greater career flexibility. This is a popular option for students seeking careers in support roles within the creative industries, or those wanting to work in creative, design or communication roles within other industries.

Consider a double degree with Creative Industries in:

  • Business to gain knowledge and skills to add business acumen to creative endeavours, and creative flair to traditional organisations. Careers include entertainment industries producer, events manager, creative entrepreneur or social media marketer.
  • Law where your creative industries and legal qualifications position you for a career as an in-house lawyer for cultural institutions, government or regulatory bodies, or as a lawyer with special interests in creative industries.
  • Human Services (Health) and use your expertise in careers in youth arts, disability arts, rehabilitation in corrective services, or community and cultural development.
  • Information Technology merging your creative and imaginative skills with sophisticated and innovative critical thinking will give you opportunities in content production, communications, graphic design and games development.

Pathways

Graduates of the course/s listed below will be automatically offered a place and gain up to 1 year of credit for prior learning (advanced standing) for the Bachelor of Creative Industries.

Careers and outcomes

Careers and outcomes

This course equips you with the creative skills, knowledge and connections to pursue a career in the creative industries and beyond. Some career options are:

  • Creative technologist – combine an interactive and visual design major with additional studies in either public relations or marketing. Collaborate with production and marketing departments to realise creative solutions and enhance the digital user experience.  
  • Screen and media producer – major in creative and professional writing and screen and content production as a second major, to prepare for corporate and community policy development.  
  • Media content producer – major screen content product with an interactive and visual design minor and develop an identity aligned with web based and multi-platform screen project development. 
  • Fashion supply chain manager – major fashion communication alongside interactive and visual design and learn about textile and product development.  
  • Marketing and promotions – study business area studies alongside your Creative Industries major to prepare for employment within marketing and promotions within film distribution, fashion wholesaling or digital design and arts. 
  • Teacher – follow your studies with a Master of Teaching (Secondary) for a meaningful career teaching the next generation. Check the Master of Teaching (Secondary) course page for entry requirements and pre-requisites.  

On successful completion of this course, you will be eligible to apply for entry into the Master of Teaching (Secondary), Master of Design (Strategic Design), Master of Digital Communication, provided you meet the entry requirements. 

 

Possible careers

  • Branding specialist
  • Campaign manager
  • Creative entrepreneur
  • Creative writer
  • Digital content producer
  • Entertainment entrepreneur
  • Events and festivals coordinator
  • Fashion marketer
  • Graphic designer
  • Interaction designer
  • Media adviser
  • Media producer
  • Multimedia designer
  • Publicist
  • Web designer

Details and units

In order to complete this course, you must complete a total of 288 credit points comprising:

  • Bachelor of Creative Industries core units - 72 credit points
  • A Creative Industries first major - 96 credit points from one of the specified first majors including Creative and Professional Writing; Fashion Communication; Interactive and Visual Design; and, Screen Content Production.
  • Complementary studies - one 96 credit point second major, or two 48 credit point minors, or one 48 credit point minor and four unit options (electives).
  • QUT You - 24 credit points of QUT You units.

In order to complete this course, you must complete a total of 288 credit points comprising:

  • Bachelor of Creative Industries core units - 72 credit points
  • A Creative Industries first major - 96 credit points from one of the specified first majors including Creative and Professional Writing; Fashion Communication; Interactive and Visual Design; and, Screen Content Production.
  • Complementary studies - one 96 credit point second major, or two 48 credit point minors, or one 48 credit point minor and four unit options (electives).
  • QUT You - 24 credit points of QUT You units.

Requirements

ATAR/selection rank threshold
70.00

These thresholds are the lowest adjusted scores to which QUT made an offer in Semester 1, 2024.

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Course code
KK43
QTAC code
421192
CRICOS code
056186M
Delivery
  • Kelvin Grove
Delivery
  • Kelvin Grove
Duration
3 years full-time
6 years part-time
Duration
3 years full-time
Entry
February and July
Entry
February and July
Deferment

You can defer your offer and postpone the start of your course for one year.

Assumed knowledge

Before you start this course, we assume you have sound knowledge of the subject/s listed below. If you don't have the subject knowledge, you can still apply for the course but we strongly encourage you to undertake bridging studies to gain the knowledge:

  • English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C)

More about assumed knowledge

Year 12 early offer scheme

If you're a current Queensland Year 12 student, you may be eligible to receive an offer for this course on the last day of Queensland Year 12, before receiving your ATAR or selection rank.

Find out more about the QUT Year 12 Early Offer Scheme

Helping you to get into your course

If you don't think your ATAR or selection rank is high enough to get into this course, you can guarantee your entry with guaranteed advanced standing by upgrading through one the following programs which you can select as one of your QTAC preferences:

QUT College Diplomas

As a QUT College Diploma in Creative Industries, Entrepreneurship (creative industries pathway), or Esports (creative industries pathway) graduate you will automatically receive an offer to start the Bachelor of Communication within one week after completion of the diploma. You will also automatically receive up to 1.0 year (96 credit points) credit transfer and be able to complete the degree in 2 years as a full-time student (or equivalent part-time).

Find out more about the QUT College Diploma in Creative Industries

Find out more about the QUT College Diploma in Entrepreneurship

Find out more about the QUT College Diploma in Esports

Offer guarantee

If you achieve an ATAR or selection rank of 70.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.

VET guarantee

If you have completed an AQF certificate IV, diploma or higher, and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.

Advanced standing

If you have prior studies or work experience, you may be eligible for advanced standing (credit). You can apply for advanced standing once you've been accepted to QUT. If you're in your first semester of study, you must apply for advanced standing within 10 days of receiving your offer.

More about advanced standing

Deferment

You can defer your offer and postpone the start of your course for one year.

More about deferring your offer

Adjustments to your ATAR/selection rank

Any adjustments you receive to your ATAR or selection rank will be applied to this course.

Find out if you’re eligible for an adjustment to your ATAR or selection rank

Offers we made to school leavers in Semester 1, 2024

The figures listed in the tables below reflect the offers that were made to recent ATAR students. The entry thresholds box at the top of this page shows the lowest adjusted ATAR/selection rank required to receive an offer for all applicants for the most recent January QTAC offer round.

Excluding adjustments Including adjustments
Highest ATAR/selection rank
to receive an offer
Selection rank 97.70
Selection rank 99.95
Median ATAR/selection rank
to receive an offer
Selection rank 82.05
Selection rank 83.40
Lowest ATAR/selection rank
to receive an offer
Selection rank 67.40
Selection rank 70.75

You can find out more about your fellow students’ backgrounds with this course’s student profile.

Other admission options

If you are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, you may be eligible for admission through our Centralised Assessment Selection Process (CASP).

Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide to the grades you need to apply for this course.

If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.

I completed secondary school in Australia

ATAR/selection rank
70.00
Offer guarantee

If you completed secondary school in Australia and achieve an ATAR/selection rank of 70.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.

VET guarantee

If you have completed an AQF certificate IV, diploma or higher, and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.

Minimum English language requirements

Select the country where you completed your studies to see a guide on meeting QUT’s English language requirements.

Your scores and prior qualifications in English-speaking countries are considered. Approved English-speaking countries are Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, United States of America and Wales.

If your country or qualification is not listed, you can still apply for this course and we will assess your eligibility.

We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests undertaken in a secure test centre. Tests must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement.

English Test Overall Listening Reading Writing Speaking
IELTS Academic / IELTS One Skills Retake 6.5 6 6 6 6
Cambridge English Score
You must share your results with QUT through the Candidate Results Online website.
176 169 169 169 169
PTE Academic 58 50 50 50 50
TOEFL iBT / Paper 79 16 16 21 18

Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!

We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.

When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.

Fees

Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.

2025 fees

2025: CSP $12,500 per year full-time (96 credit points)

Additional Costs

There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. (Screen Content Production students only). Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.

2025 fees

2025: $37,400 per year full-time (96 credit points)

Additional Costs

There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. (Screen Content Production students only). Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.

2024 fees

2024: CSP $11,700 per year full-time (96 credit points)

Additional Costs

There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. (Screen Content Production students only). Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.

2024 fees

2024: $34,700 per year full-time (96 credit points)

Additional Costs

There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. (Screen Content Production students only). Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.

Student services and amenities fees

You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.

Find out more about undergraduate course fees

HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees

You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.

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Scholarships

You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.

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QUT Excellence Scholarship (Academic)

QUT's premier offering for students with outstanding academic achievement.

Scholarship eligibility
Academic performance

Equity scholarships scheme

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Struggling financially

QUT Elite Sport Scholarship

QUT's premier offering for students with outstanding sporting achievement.

Scholarship eligibility
Sporting excellence

International Merit Scholarship

Scholarship eligibility
Academic performance

QUT Budding Entrepreneur Scholarship

A scholarship for innovative individuals who are engaged in their passion for entrepreneurial action.

Scholarship eligibility

QUT Real World International Scholarship

A scholarship to cover tuition fees, with eligibility based on your prior academic achievements.

Scholarship eligibility
Academic performance

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