Summer Semester

UQ has a number of courses available for enrolment in the intensive 8-week Summer Semester each year, providing an opportunity to:

• Finish your degree faster (if you're a UQ student).
• Undertake courses to meet prerequisite requirements for another program.
• Discover new subject areas like anthropology, history, nutrition, criminology and economics.
• Study during a concentrated period and in smaller classes than ordinary semesters.
• Gain experience studying at university.
• Develop new skills and new ways of understanding the world.
• Enjoy the opportunity to study with a diverse group of people in a supportive environment.

Anyone is eligible to enrol in the Summer Semester, but please note some courses are only available to UQ award students (i.e. current students who are enrolled in a UQ degree).

Past applicants have included:

• current UQ students
• students from other universities, including international students
• professionals
• adults from a range of backgrounds
• high-school students.

Before deciding to enrol, please read the course details carefully to determine if you meet eligibility requirements. Some courses may be restricted, or may have specific prerequisites.

In addition to courses offered through Summer Semester, the Institute of Modern Languages offers more than 30 language courses and UQ College offers English-language training.

The list of courses available in Summer Semester is published when enrolments open. Available courses may change from year to year.

View 2025/26 Summer Semester courses

Before deciding to enrol, please read the course details carefully to determine if you meet eligibility requirements. Some courses may be restricted or have specific prerequisites.

Current UQ students

Use mySI-net to enrol

Other university students

If you're enrolled at another Australian university and you want to undertake a course at UQ during Summer Semester for credit towards your program at your home institution, you should apply as a "cross-institutional student".

Before you apply, make sure you get approval from your home university and confirm you can get credit for your UQ studies.

Apply for cross-institutional enrolment

All other interested applicants

All other interested applicants should enrol in Summer Semester as "non-award students".

"Non-award" simply means you are not enrolled in a program that would lead to award of a degree (i.e. an "award" is the qualification you earn after completing an academic program).

Non-award students typically undertake UQ courses for a range of reasons, including personal or professional development.

Before applying, please carefully read course details to determine if you meet eligibility requirements. Some courses may be restricted or have specific prerequisites.

Apply for non-award study

See the 2025 fee schedules for the tuition fees and administrative charges applicable for Summer Semester 2025. Invoices for Summer Semester enrolments will become available in mid-November.

If you have any questions, please contact Student Central.

Commonwealth Supported students

If you're a domestic UQ student studying in a Commonwealth Supported place or a domestic cross-institutional student, you may be eligible to enrol in Summer Semester as a Commonwealth Supported student if:

• you meet course eligibility requirements, and
• the course will count for credit towards your degree / program.

Submit a new HECS-HELP eCAF if:

• you're a cross-institutional student from another university and you are approved to enrol as a Commonwealth Supported student at UQ,
• you're a current UQ Commonwealth Supported student and you want to change your existing method of payment,
• you're commencing in a Commonwealth Supported Place in a new program in Summer Semester, or
• you have become eligible for a HECS-HELP loan for the first time in Summer Semester.

More information is available about HECS-HELP

Full fee paying students

Full fee-paying students include:

• international students
• non-award students
• most domestic postgraduate students
• some domestic undergraduate students (e.g. current UQ students who have recently gained permanent residency and do not have a Commonwealth Supported Place).

Domestic fee-paying students may be eligible to defer payment of their tuition fees through FEE-HELP.

How to make a payment

See the How to Pay page for information about payment methods.

New students

If you're a new student, see the Starting at UQ website for advice on:

• Timetables
• Enrolling and class allocation.

Current students

If you're a current student, see the my.UQ website for advice on:

• Timetables
• Enrolling and class allocation.

View the UQ academic calendar to check key semester dates. 

Key dates include:

• due date for enrolment
• due date for payment
• semester start and end dates
• last date to drop courses without financial and academic penalty.

Admission or enrolling (domestic students)

• Phone: 07 3365 2600

Admission or enrolling (international students)

• Contact your faculty

Fees

• Phone: 07 3365 2328

UQ usernames and passwords

• Request IT support

All other inquiries

• Contact or visit  Student Central for help with academic and administrative matters
• Contact Student Support and Wellbeing Services for matters relating to student access plans, student support etc