Queenslandâs Top 20 uni courses revealed
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Subscriber only Health careers have topped the charts for Queensland Year 12 students as thousands yesterday received offers to the state s universities. It comes as hundreds of students move to study at TAFE, with graduates saying they opted to avoid the stressful and heavy workload of university. Out of the top 20 courses offered yesterday, 13 were in health, with over 3300 offers made across the field. Over 9800 offers were made to Year 12 students by Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC), with a Diploma of Nursing at TAFE the most popular with 269 offers, followed by Griffith University s Bachelor of Nursing with 172 offers.
Queenslandâs Top 20 uni courses revealed
Education by Cloe Read
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Subscriber only Health careers have topped the charts for Queensland Year 12 students as thousands yesterday received offers to the state s universities. It comes as hundreds of students move to study at TAFE, with graduates saying they opted to avoid the stressful and heavy workload of university. Out of the top 20 courses offered yesterday, 13 were in health, with over 3300 offers made across the field. Over 9800 offers were made to Year 12 students by Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC), with a Diploma of Nursing at TAFE the most popular with 269 offers, followed by Griffith University s Bachelor of Nursing with 172 offers.
Education by Antonia OâFlaherty and Shiloh Payne 20th Dec 2020 5:03 AM | Updated: 6:11 AM
Premium Content  The jubilation came as the new end-of-school ranking system glitched in the first few hours, with schools unable to access results from 9am until 1.30pm. Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre would not comment on the cause of the issues, but schools reported QTAC had confirmed high website traffic overloaded the portal. Brisbane Grammar School was one of the top schools with four graduates, Lewis Luck, Tom Dickson, William McEniery and Remi Fox achieving the highest Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 99.95. The school also reported a staggering 70.57 per cent of its cohort achieved a ranking of 90 or above, with a median ATAR of 94.6.
Cohort of firsts: Queensland students receive results in ATAR format
Cohort of firsts: Queensland students receive results in ATAR format
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More than 25,000 Queensland Year 12 students received their final school results through the ATAR system on Saturday, which was rolled out for the first time this year and replaced the OP system.
The changeover to the Australian Tertiary Admission Ranks system, which cost the state government about $130 million, brings Queensland into line with every other state in the country.
Three of the 30 Queensland students who achieved an ATAR rank of 99.95 - the best possible result. Declan Fletcher - Anglican Church Grammar School (far right), Katherine Nguyen - Mansfield State High School (middle right), Connor Davis - Wavell State High School (middle left) and Education Minister Grace Grace (far left).
Education by Antonia OâFlaherty and Shiloh Payne 20th Dec 2020 5:03 AM | Updated: 6:11 AM
Premium Content  The jubilation came as the new end-of-school ranking system glitched in the first few hours, with schools unable to access results from 9am until 1.30pm. Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre would not comment on the cause of the issues, but schools reported QTAC had confirmed high website traffic overloaded the portal. Brisbane Grammar School was one of the top schools with four graduates, Lewis Luck, Tom Dickson, William McEniery and Remi Fox achieving the highest Australian Tertiary Admission Rank of 99.95. The school also reported a staggering 70.57 per cent of its cohort achieved a ranking of 90 or above, with a median ATAR of 94.6.