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Learn how nutrition affects health and aids in preventing and managing conditions like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, malnutrition, digestive issues, and food allergies. This program offers numerous ways to combine theoretical knowledge with hands-on experience. Through roughly 850 hours of supervised practice across hospitals, community centers, aged care facilities, the food industry, and other settings, you'll acquire practical skills to help individuals make healthier food choices. On campus, you'll work in our state-of-the-art dietetics lab and student-run clinic, where you'll apply medical nutrition therapy with actual clients while creating nutrition education initiatives. For those interested in research, your final year includes an opportunity to collaborate with top Australian nutrition and dietetics researchers on groundbreaking projects with global reach, potentially contributing to published scientific work.
To be offered a place in an undergraduate program, you need to have successfully completed Queensland Year 12, or a qualification equivalent to Queensland Year 12, with the required minimum entry score for the program you're interested in studying.
A minimum entry score is the lowest score you need to achieve to be considered for a place in a program.
This score is displayed in different ways, depending on the studies you have completed:
Australian Year 12, International Baccalaureate or New Zealand NCEA studies
You must achieve the required ATAR score, Queensland rank or IB score for your preferred UQ program if you are currently studying:
Australian Year 12 (or equivalent)
International Baccalaureate, or
National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) Level 3 in New Zealand.
Queensland Year 12 (or equivalent):
General English subject (Units 3 & 4, C), and
General Mathematics, Mathematical Methods or Specialist Mathematics (Units 3 & 4, C), and
one of Biology, Chemistry or Physics (Units 3 & 4, C).