2027 Entry Requirements & Interview Format
University of Queensland Medical School (UQ) in St Lucia, QLD runs a school-leaver and graduate-entry medicine program for 2027 entry. Admission tests listed: GAMSAT, UCAT-ANZ and MCAT. Published hurdles: ATAR — Adjusted ATAR 95 (or equivalent) is the published MINIMUM for both school-leaver routes; GPA — minimum 5.0/7.0 in key degree. UQ holds multiple mini interviews (MMI).
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Step-by-step: entry requirements, admission-test prep, personal statement, interview format and the key deadlines.
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Read the guide →Integrated + Team-based learning, 4 years (graduate entry), placements in Greater Brisbane, regional and rural Queensland, and New Orleans.
See the course →UQ delivers Australia's largest graduate-entry 4-year MD with placements across the St Lucia MD Learning Hub and the Greater Brisbane Clinical School's eight clinical units — Royal Brisbane, PA-Southside, Mater, Children's Health Queensland, Greenslopes, Ipswich, Northside and General Practice — plus a Rural Clinical School (Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Toowoomba) and the US-only UQ-Ochsner pathway in New Orleans, distinguished by scale, hospital breadth, and translational research depth.
UQ runs Australia's largest 4-year graduate-entry MD (~470 places), anchored at the St Lucia MD Learning Hub and the Greater Brisbane Clinical School's eight clinical units — Children's Health Queensland, General Practice, Greenslopes, Ipswich, Mater, Northside, PA-Southside and Royal Brisbane.
The UQ-Ochsner Clinical School runs Years 1-2 in Brisbane and Years 3-4 in New Orleans, but it is open only to US citizens and permanent residents and selects on the MCAT (minimum 504).
Pre-interview ranking for graduate entry is a flat 50:50 of unweighted average GAMSAT and assessed GPA; after the MMI, applicants are ranked in merit order by pathway and tier, with the MMI score as the tiebreaker.
Integrated curriculum. 4-year graduate MD. Years 1-2 foundations and clinical skills at the Herston Health Sciences precinct. Years 3-4 clinical placements distributed across Princess Alexandra, Royal Brisbane, Mater, Gold Coast, Toowoomba, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, and Rural Clinical School sites. Ochsner pathway places years 3-4 in New Orleans, USA.
Provisional Entry: separate school-leaver pathway, ~140 CSP, uses UCAT-ANZ + ATAR + MMI.
UQ is strong in these research areas:
Format: Multi-Mini Interview (8 stations)
UQ uses an 8-station MMI. Each station gives you 2 minutes to read the scenario in silence on screen, then 7 minutes to respond, with a 1-minute-remaining warning at the 6-minute mark and roughly a minute of transition between stations. There are 8 stations, each in a separate Zoom room with a different assessor.
UQ delivers the MMI by video conferencing rather than in person, under exam conditions, with photo-ID and room checks at your first station and a desk clear of everything but your ID, your device and water. UQ assesses kindness and compassion, integrity, adaptability and verbal communication skills. UQ has Australia's largest MD intake so logistics run across multiple days.
2027 graduate intake: 107 CSP + 43 BMP + up to 190 international = up to 340 across the GEMSAS graduate route for 2027 entry (Graduate CSP 107, Graduate BMP 43, International 190 including UQ-Ochsner; GEMSAS notes these are indicative and subject to annual variation). UQ separately publishes approximately 275 domestic places and approximately 100 international places across the provisional and graduate pathways each year; 28% of domestic places go to the Rural Background Student Sub-Quota.
University of Queensland Medical School was founded in 1936 and is based in St Lucia.
Programmes offered:
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Try the AI interviewer| Entry pathway | Undergraduate and graduate entry |
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| ATAR | Adjusted ATAR 95 (or equivalent) is the published MINIMUM for both school-leaver routes |
| GPA | Minimum 5.0/7.0 in key degree |
| GAMSAT | Minimum 50 in each of Sections I, II, III (any section below 50 = ineligible) |
| UCAT-ANZ | Shortlisting is on the UCAT ANZ aggregate, subject to a minimum 50% of domestic MMI invitees being Queensland Year 12 students |
| Interview format | Multiple mini interviews (MMI) |
| Admission overview | Graduate entry: bachelor (key degree) completed in the last 10 years with minimum GPA 5.0/7.0; GAMSAT minimum 50 in EACH section (no overall threshold is published), or MCAT 504, taken within 4 years before you commence; 8-station online MMI. UQ also assumes — but does not require as a prerequisite — prior tertiary study in cell and tissue biology and systems physiology (UQ BIOM2011 and BIOM2012, or equivalent). Provisional entry instead needs an adjusted ATAR 95, Queensland Year 12 English, a UCAT ANZ score from the year you apply, and the MMI. |
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| ATAR | Adjusted ATAR 95 (or equivalent) is the published MINIMUM for both school-leaver routes — provisional entry (QTAC 721302 / 721402) and the 6-year BMedSc/MD dual (QTAC 721502) — and meeting it guarantees nothing. Actual Semester 1 2026 provisional-entry offer profile (latest published cycle), non-bonded: highest 99.95, median 99.65, lowest 95.00 excluding adjustments (99.95 / 99.95 / 98.10 including adjustments). Bonded: highest 99.95, median 99.20, lowest 93.25 excluding adjustments (99.95 / 99.95 / 97.25 including adjustments). |
| GAMSAT | Minimum 50 in each of Sections I, II, III (any section below 50 = ineligible). Interview shortlist: 50% unweighted GAMSAT (mean of 3 sections) + 50% GPA, GPA as tiebreaker. Final offer: UQ does not publish a weighting. Interviewed applicants are ranked by tier and merit order within each pathway, with CQ-WB RMP and DD-SW MP offers determined first; where final scores tie, the MMI score is the tiebreaker; non-bonded (CSP) places are offered before bonded (BMP). |
| UCAT-ANZ | Required for Provisional Entry (school-leaver) and for the new 6-year BMedSc/MD direct-entry dual; must be sat in the year you apply. Latest published figures are for the 2026 intake: the lowest UCAT ANZ score invited to interview was 2290/2700 for applicants not eligible for the Rural Background Sub-Quota and 1960/2700 for those who were. No 2027-entry threshold has been published, and UQ has said it is reviewing how the recent UCAT ANZ format change affects interview selection. Shortlisting is on the UCAT ANZ aggregate, subject to a minimum 50% of domestic MMI invitees being Queensland Year 12 students. The final offer rank is a combined score of ATAR, MMI total and UCAT ANZ aggregate — UQ and QTAC publish no weightings. |
| GPA | Minimum 5.0/7.0 in key degree. Currency rule: degrees > 10 years before commencement require ≥ 0.50 FTE subsequent coursework at GPA ≥ 5.0. |
| Prerequisites | Graduate entry assumes — but does not require — tertiary-level cell and tissue biology and systems physiology (UQ BIOM2011 Integrative Cell and Tissue Biology and BIOM2012 Systems Physiology, or equivalent, at about second-year level). Provisional entry requires Queensland Year 12 English, Literature, English and Literature Extension or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 and 4, C), and applicants must be current Year 12 students. The 6-year BMedSc/MD dual adds Mathematical Methods or Specialist Mathematics (Units 3 and 4, C); Year 12 chemistry and biology are recommended but not required. |
| Place types | 2027 graduate intake: 107 CSP + 43 BMP + up to 190 international (incl. UQ-Ochsner). UQ does not break out a provisional-entry number; it publishes approximately 275 domestic MD places each year, of which approximately 60 sit in the CQ-WB Regional Medical Pathway and approximately 36 in the DD-SW Medical Pathway, plus approximately 100 international places across the provisional and graduate entry pathways (GEMSAS separately lists 190 international places for 2027 on a wider basis that includes UQ-Ochsner). 28% of domestic places go to the Rural Background Student Sub-Quota. |
| Indigenous pathway | Two Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander pathways — provisional entry (school-leaver) and graduate entry — both involving the ATSIS Unit. UCAT ANZ (provisional) and GAMSAT (graduate) are encouraged but NOT compulsory. Both require the 8-station MMI (November for the provisional pathway) plus a semi-structured interview with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (ATSIS) Unit. Provisional-entry students have guaranteed MD entry on successfully completing their first UQ bachelor degree. No set quota. Applications close 30 September (provisional) or 1 August (graduate) in the year prior to admission. Central Queensland applicants apply via CQUniversity and Darling Downs / South West applicants via the University of Southern Queensland. |
| Bonded / rural | 28.5% of CSP places reserved for rural-background applicants (≥5 consecutive or ≥10 cumulative years in rural Australia per MMM 2023). Rural applicants receive two upward GAMSAT score adjustments. Regional pathways: Central Queensland-Wide Bay (CQ-WB RMP) and Darling Downs-South West (DD-SW MP). |
| Specialities offered | Tropical Medicine, Global Health, Clinical Research, Indigenous Health, General Practice |
| Format | Multi-Mini Interview (8 stations) |
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| Interview window (2027 entry) | Graduate (GEMSAS): mid-September 2026 for 2027 entry. Graduate direct/MCAT: w/b 13 July 2026 (Round 1) or w/b 14 September 2026 (Round 2). Provisional entry and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander provisional pathway: mid-late November 2026. |
| Decision date (2027 entry) | Graduate (GEMSAS): November 2026, with a small number in December and January. Graduate direct/MCAT: emailed w/b 3 August 2026 (Round 1) or w/b 5 October 2026 (Round 2). Provisional entry: UQ emails offers mid-December 2026, ahead of the QTAC offer round on 14 January 2027 (which also covers the 6-year BMedSc/MD dual). |
| Post-interview chances | Not published. Neither UQ, GEMSAS nor QTAC publishes the number of MMI invitations issued or an interview-to-offer conversion rate for the UQ MD. Treat any quoted percentage as an unsourced estimate. |
UQ's scale means the MMI is heavily logistics-driven — practise the format with the actual cadence (2 minutes reading in silence, then 7 minutes talking, with a 1-minute warning at six) and rehearse on Zoom, because the whole MMI is delivered by video conferencing and you sit it under exam conditions with a photo-ID and room check at your first station. UQ examiners value range — pulling examples across teaching hospitals, rural placement, and international health plays well.
Two questions our tutors flagged as a strong fit for UQ’s interview style. Try answering them out loud, then open Prometheus for the model answers and follow-up tips.
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