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

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, 2022 by full fee-paying international students undertaking an undergraduate, postgraduate coursework degree program or foundation program who are unable to come to Australia.

The UQ COVID-19 Offshore Online Study Tuition Fee Rebate is available to all international coursework students (both commencing and continuing) and foundation program students enrolled in Semester 2, 2022 who:

• are prevented from traveling to Australia due to the COVID-19 pandemic; 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 or foundation program, 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.

Eligible Semester 2, 2022 students will have the rebate provisionally applied to their student account in mySI-net by the fees due date 5 August 2022. Eligibility for the rebate will be re-assessed after 5 August 2022 based on your eligibility as at 5 August.

If you believe you are eligible for the rebate and it has not been applied to your student account in mySI-net, please 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, postgraduate coursework or foundation 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 $59 in 2022 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.