Deferring a QTAC offer

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Current Year 12 school leavers

QUT allows current Year 12 school leavers to defer their QTAC offer for:

• one year if offered in January/February
• six months if offered midyear.

A current Year 12 school leaver is any student who completes year 12 in the year immediately prior to admission to QUT.

Non-Year 12 students

Non-Year 12 students may also request to defer their QTAC offer on the basis of demonstrated special circumstances. Your request must confirm that the circumstance will not prevent you from studying after deferment.

Special circumstances are those:

• beyond your control, ie not due to your action or inaction
• that had their full impact on or after you were made an offer into the course, including circumstances which occurred before the offer date but where the impact worsened or the full effect did not become apparent until after that date
• that made it impracticable for you to start your studies.

Applicants who lodge deferment requests by the QTAC offer response date (as printed on your QTAC offer letter) and if required submit exceptional circumstance claim within 14 days of the QTAC offer response date will receive formal notification on their deferment outcome within 30 days.

Course availability

QTAC deferment is available for most courses. The exceptions are courses with additional entry requirements, eg auditions, portfolios, interviews, questionnaires, Dean's Scholars, prior studies, prior work experience etc.

Please visit Studyfinder for your QTAC course's deferment status.

Further information

• How to apply for deferment
• Returning from deferment
• Conditions of deferment

Related Links

• QUT deferment policy
• Details on your privacy at QUT