2026 Welcome Week

At Welcome Week first-year students can: 

• attend orientation events, workshops and seminars
• explore QUT's huge range of student clubs and societies
• find out about opportunities to play sport at QUT, including esports.

QUT will also host other orientation events over summer, including:

• Early Birds Orientation on December 10
• Non School Leaver coffee catch up on December 11
• New to QUT - International Students sessions from December 16 to February 12
• Parents, Carers, and Partners Information Session on February 9
• Pre-Orientation Program (POP) for Indigenous Australian students from February 9 to 13
• Remote and Regional Student Coffee Catch Up on February 10
• Non-School Leaver Welcome Session on February 13

(New students will need their QUT student log-in details to access some of the above pages.)

The 2026 university calendar with semester dates, exams and holidays can be found here.