Anxious wait over as students get university offers: Search our database for cut-off scores

The nervous wait for thousands of university aspirants in Queensland finally ended on Monday morning when first-round offers were released.

There were no reported glitches in the release of offers at 10am, with the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) avoiding the embarrassment it faced earlier this year when its January offer round was initially delayed by four days, and then by several more hours.

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Note: The ATARs for Queensland tertiary institutions are officially for 2024, but provide a strong indication of the cut-off scores for 2025.

Health courses continued to be the most popular among Queensland students, while the field of society and culture, which includes law, economics, psychology and sport and recreation courses, was the second-most in-demand area of study.

More than 16,000 students received an offer through QTAC – a 15 per cent increase on the number of offers made in the same round last year – with further offers to follow in January.

In Queensland, the university admissions period officially starts in August, with 17,472 offers already made to date. By Monday morning, a total of 33,400 university places had been offered to year 12 graduates and mature-aged students across the state.

For the past four years, the University of Queensland has consistently offered the most places in the December offer round.

This year, its bachelor of engineering dominated preferences, with the university offering 460 places.

The sandstone university offered 318 places for the bachelor of engineering (honours)/major engineering and 265 places for the bachelor of arts.

Beaudesert State High School graduate Max Mevissen, 18, was among the many anxious students to receive an offer, making him the first person in his family to attend university.

“For a long time I’ve always wanted to go to uni ... and my parents have always been really supportive of that. My dad works at a building and construction company and he manages maintenance and my mum is a support worker for people with disabilities,” he said.

Mevissen achieved an ATAR of 92.8, which secured him a place at UQ to study a bachelor of advanced science.

Max Mevissen will be the first person in his family to attend university after receiving an offer on Monday morning.

“I’m not 100 per cent clear on a career path, but I’m really interested in chemistry,” he said.

“I’m really looking forward to meeting new people with similar interests.”

He received the news of his university offer on a video call with QTAC representatives on Monday morning.

“I was so relieved. I’ve been very anxious over it for a while,” he said.

QTAC interim chief executive Chris Veraa said the organisation had noticed many university applicants changing their course preferences after receiving their ATAR scores on December 13.

“It’s encouraging to see year 12 graduates taking charge of their futures by carefully considering their options before the year ends,” he said.

“While we see similar behaviour among adult applicants, more than three times as many school-leavers made changes in their application portal, highlighting the proactive approach of younger applicants in shaping their futures.”

Veraa also noted that the number of interstate university applicants had increased 5.5 per cent to 5612, “highlighting a continued strong interest in studying in Queensland”.

He said options were still available for school-leavers who were not offered a course on Monday.

“We encourage any applicants looking to upcoming offer rounds to actively engage with pathway planning and preference changes in the upcoming rounds,” he said.

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