UQ-link Access Program

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What is the UQ-Link Access Program?

The UQ-Link Access Program is a special admissions scheme aimed at assisting students who have experienced educational disadvantage caused by financial hardship, to gain entry to UQ.

What are the benefits of the UQ-Link Access Program?

  • All approved applicants receive five bonus points* (on a 1-99 ranking scale) towards their admission to study undergraduate programs at UQ. The number of bonus points that a student can receive under any scheme (including the UQ Bonus Rank Scheme) is capped at five
  • $500 Start-Up Bursary to help fund up-front education costs (such as text books)
  • Access to a range of support services, including transition programs such as Jump Start
  • Opportunity to be considered for a UQ-Link Access Scholarship valued at $3,000 per year for up to four years.

*Note: Queensland school leavers should note that bonus points are not OPs rather they are ranks.

Who is eligible?

To be eligible for the UQ-Link Access Program, you must:

  • be an Australian Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or an Australian Permanent Humanitarian Visa holder; and
  • be completing (or have completed) one of the following in 2012 (or 2011 if you’re a gap year student):
    • Year 12 (or seeking entry using combined mode); or
    • full-time Senior External Examinations; or
    • full-time Certificate IV in Adult Tertiary Preparation; or
    • full-time Tertiary Preparation Program through the UQ College
       
    and
     
  • be intending to commence study at UQ in 2013 (or in 2014 after an approved year of deferral); and
  • have not completed any previous tertiary study other than that undertaken as part of Year 11-12 studies (eg. Enhanced Studies Program, GUEST etc); and
  • be eligible for maximum points under the ‘Financial Hardship’ category of QTAC’s Educational Access Scheme (EAS)*

*Applicants in receipt of the full rate of Youth Allowance, AUSTUDY or ABSTUDY, or whose parents receive the full rate of Centrelink’s Family Tax A payment would normally receive maximum points for financial hardship. Students from very low-income families NOT in receipt of one of these payments may also be eligible.

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