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

When you accept your offer for Semester 2, 2021 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 may pay the deposit amount only 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. You will need to arrange sufficient OSHC cover before applying for your student visa.

The UQ COVID-19 Offshore Online Study Tuition Fee Rebate is a 12.5 per cent rebate on the tuition fees payable for Semester 2, 2020, Summer Semester 2020, Semester 1, 2021 and Semester 2, 2021 by full fee paying international coursework students who are unable to come to Australia due to the Australian government border controls.

The UQ COVID-19 Offshore Online Study Tuition Fee Rebate is available to all international coursework students (both commencing and continuing) enrolled in Semester 2, 2020, Summer Semester 2020, Semester 1, 2021 or Semester 2, 2021 who:

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

If you have been issued a student visa, we will be able to verify your location using the Australian Government Visa Entitlement Verification Online (VEVO) system. However, if you have not been issued a student visa, we may need additional information from you.

Your eligibility will be assessed using the information we have available from the Department of Home Affairs at that time, and the rebate will be applied to your account provisionally. Once you enrol in courses, and your fees are calculated, the rebate will be calculated and can be seen on your Financial home page in mySi-net as a “Waived International Tuition’ amount. 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.

Your eligibility for the Rebate will be re-assessed after the fees due date based on the most current data.

If you believe you meet the eligibility requirements and the rebate has not been applied to your student account, please contact Student Fees and Scholarships immediately to outline your circumstances. You may be asked to provide further information to assess your eligibility.

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.

Students who are studying from outside Australia for part of the Semester will need to provide details of their circumstances and will be assessed for eligibility for the Rebate on a case by case basis.

No. The UQ COVID-19 Offshore Online Study Tuition Fee Rebate is only available for full tuition fee paying international students enrolled in an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework program at UQ.

Yes, if you are eligible for the Rebate, it 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 per cent 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 per cent 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 $58 in 2021 per half-year period, whether full-time or part-time. To qualify as "external", you must only be enrolled in external courses.

If you are undertaking a UQ Abroad exchange semester, any course enrolment in addition to your EXCH courses must also be external.

If you enrol in an internal course or a flexible delivery course, you are not considered external. You will be charged the same fee as an internal student.

Visit the Student Services and Amenities Fee website for further information.