Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre

Bachelor of Communication
421351
Creative and Performing Arts, Business and Tourism
The Bachelor of Communication prepares you for a dynamic career in the rapidly evolving digital media, entertainment, communication, and news landscape. The course integrates professional skills with critical and creative thinking, authen...
Full time Part time
Course Fee
CSP/$17210 (1st year contribution)
Queensland University of Technology - Kelvin Grove
Start Date
Feb 2027
Jul 2027
Duration

3 years Full time or 6 years Part time

Offer Rounds
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Course outline

The Bachelor of Communication prepares you for a dynamic career in the rapidly evolving digital media, entertainment, communication, and news landscape. The course integrates professional skills with critical and creative thinking, authentic industry experiences, and digital media literacy skills with core disciplinary theories and research methodologies. Drawing from the latest scholarship in the field and a global network of industry leaders, the program offers you research-led, on-campus learning environments as well as opportunities to expand those learning experiences to include real-world settings from around Australia and the world.

As a graduate, you will have a well-developed sense of professional identity and practice and will be equipped with the expert communication, media, and digital literacy skills that are in demand across range of careers in the creative industries, corporate sector, and public service. You will have the ability to analyse digital media, entertainment, communication, and news platforms as economic, cultural, and technological phenomena. You will gain the critical thinking skills to develop ethical and socially responsible strategies that shape industries, communities, and cultures for a more just and inclusive world.

This course is covered by the QUT Offer Guarantee and Year 12 Early Offer Scheme.

For more course information, visit Bachelor of Communication at QUT.

Queensland University of Technology

Majors

Journalism; media and communication industries; promotional communication; screen industries.

Other requirements

A Suitability Card may be required; refer to institution.

Admissions Criteria

For additional information about the admissions criteria for QUT and for this course, refer to QUT’s website.

Prerequisites

Applicant must be 16; Completion of Year 12 or attained age 18 years

Assumed knowledge

English, or Literature, or English and Literature Extension, or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 & 4, C)

Minimum Selection thresholds (ATAR/Selection Rank) for semester/trimester/term 1, 2026
70.00
ATAR/Selection Rank profile for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR/Selection Rank for semester/trimester/term 1, 2026

For more information about the ATAR/Selection Rank profile, please visit ATAR/Selection Rank profile explained.

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

96.15

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

99.95

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

78.10

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

80.05

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

64.50

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

70.35

Excluding: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made, excluding adjustment factors.
Including: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made including any adjustment factors that may have been applied.

Student Profile by Applicant background for semester/trimester/term 1, 2026

For more information about the Student profile, please visit Student profile explained.

Number of students

N/P#

Percentage of all students

N/P#

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

Number of students

24

Percentage of all students

22.5%

Number of students

0

Percentage of all students

0.0%

Number of students

22

Percentage of all students

20.6%

Number of students

46

Percentage of all students

43.0%

Number of students

107

Percentage of all students

100%

Notes

* “<5" – the number of students is less than 5
# N/P – Not published: the number is hidden to prevent calculation of numbers in cells with less than 5 students

Career opportunities

Advertising and new media professional , advocacy manager, art director, audience researcher, brand strategist, communication specialist, content strategist, corporate communications manager, creative director, digital communication specialist, digital content creator / designer / producer, event coordinator, experiential marketing manager, foreign correspondent, influencer marketing specialist, internal communications specialist, journalist, marketing officer / manager, media industry specialist, media or communications adviser, media planner / buyer / researcher / trader, podcast host, policy development, presenter, producer, public relations officer / consultant, reporter, social media manager, sponsorship strategist, sports reporter.

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