“I’d been hoping to get into QUT since year 9, when I learnt how to sew,” she said.
Gundrum said her twin sister Rose had also received an early offer, about a week after her own offer, to study acting at QUT.
Many courses are not offered in December and are instead included in the second major round in January, as individual institutions finalise course entry criteria.
Veraa said health was the most popular area of study, with 4331 successful applications for degrees including courses for pharmacy, speech pathology and veterinary science.
The number of offers for health study increased by 7.7 per cent from last year’s December round.
“It’s encouraging to see applicants gravitating toward study areas that align with Queensland’s workforce needs and long-term growth priorities,” Veraa said.
The University of Queensland made the largest number of offers in the 2025 December entrance round.Credit: University of Queensland
The five individual courses with the largest number of places offered on Wednesday included engineering, finance, arts, and psychological science degrees from the University of Queensland, which had the largest number of courses of any institution.
University Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry AC said demand for engineering degrees had increased by 8 per cent in 2026, as compared with 2025.
“Health, education and science programs also remain highly sought after, ensuring a pipeline of skilled professionals such as doctors, teachers and scientists,” Terry said.
She said UQ had offered more than 5800 places in the first round.
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Applications to Griffith University followed a similar trend, with nursing, physiotherapy and biomedical sciences among the top-five most popular degrees offered on Wednesday, although the two most sought-after courses were education and law.
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