COVID-19 (coronavirus) advice for the UQ community - STUDENTS - Fees / Costs

When you accept your offer for Semester 2, you will be invoiced for Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) together with your deposit. If you do not wish to arrange your OSHC at the time of accepting your offer, you need to notify us and we will issue you with a Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE) that includes a reminder that you are fully responsible for organising OSHC for the length of your student visa.

The UQ COVID-19 Offshore Online Study Tuition Fee Rebate is a 12.5% rebate on the full tuition fees payable for Semester 2 2020 and Summer Semester 2020 by international coursework students.

The UQ COVID-19 Offshore Online Study Tuition Fee Rebate is available to all international coursework students enrolled in Semester 2 or Summer 2020 who:

1. are overseas (on the fee due date) and prevented from travelling to Australia due to the Australian Government border controls; and
2. will be studying at UQ online only from their home country; and
3. are full fee paying international students undertaking an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree; and
4. are not already receiving a higher reduction in their fees through a scholarship, sponsorship, bursary or partner arrangement.

When you are issued with a Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE) by UQ, we will be able to verify your location using the Australian Government Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO) system. In some cases, we may need additional information from you, such as passport details.

Once you enrol, the UQ COVID-19 Offshore Online Study Tuition Fee Rebate will be provisionally applied to your student account. Provisional eligibility will be assessed using the information we have available from the Department of Home Affairs at that time.

Your final eligibility for the Rebate will then be finalised after the fees due date based on your location at that time. If your onshore/offshore location has changed, the Rebate will be adjusted accordingly.

You will be able to see the UQ COVID-19 Offshore Online Study Tuition Fee Rebate by logging into your student account via mySI-net. The Rebate will not be evenly distributed across the courses you have enrolled in, instead the full rebate may be applied against the fees for just one course.

If you believe you are eligible for the Rebate but it has not been applied to your account, please contact us by email fees@uq.edu.au.

No. The UQ COVID-19 Offshore Online Study Tuition Fee Rebate is only available for full tuition fee paying international students studying an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree online in Semester 2 or Summer Semester 2020, from outside Australia.

Yes, the Rebate will be applied to your fees for each eligible semester or teaching period, regardless of the number of courses you enrol in.

If your fees have already been reduced by more than 12.5% through a UQ scholarship, articulation, partner or sponsor arrangement, you will not receive the Rebate. However, if your fees are reduced by less than 12.5% through a UQ scholarship, articulation, partner or sponsor arrangement, you will receive the Rebate instead of the existing reduction.

Yes, you will still pay the same deposit.

External students pay a maximum of $57 per half-year period, whether full-time or part-time. To qualify as "external", your program must be delivered externally and all your courses must be external.

If you enrol in an internal or flexible course, even if your other courses are external, you are not considered external and you will be charged the internal student rate.