Explore creative arts at QUT
Watch to find out how QUT’s Bachelor of Creative Arts empowers emerging artists to turn passion into profession, with cutting-edge skills, real-world experience, and access to a thriving creative community.
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Pathway option
Gain one year of foundational creative industry skills and guarantee entry into the second year of Bachelor of Creative Arts with your choice of majors.
Undergraduate courses
The Bachelor of Creative Arts allows you to curate your career by combining creative disciplines. Become highly skilled across multiple creative fields and collaborate with students and staff across disciplines.
Double degrees
Maximise your career opportunities and create your own specialist career niche within the creative arts by combining your degree with a complementary study area that interests you.
No. 1 university in Queensland for art and design
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026
The QUT difference
Join a vibrant creative community that values collaboration, flexibility and shared understanding. Our flexible programs focus on working across disciplines to explore new ways of making and thinking together. By combining creative skills with other fields and perspectives, you will graduate with the adaptability and insight needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Creative arts pathways
There are several ways to gain entry to the Bachelor of Creative Arts. Whether you're still at school, completing a diploma, returning to study, building on previous qualifications or drawing on work and life experience, QUT offers a range of pathways to help you get started. Explore entry schemes, alternative pathways and support programs designed to help you take the next step towards your future.
Creative arts events
2 October
Three of a Kind
Three siblings. Three secrets. One hell of a storm. Join us for this performance showcasing the work of QUT Drama students.
Where: The Loft Theatre, Z2 Block, QUT Kelvin Grove
15 - 17 October
Holding the Man
Tommy Murphy's stage adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir — a fifteen-year love story, told with intimacy and warmth.
Where: The Loft Theatre, Z2 Block, QUT Kelvin Grove
15 October
Holding the Man - High School Preview
A special high school preview of 'Holding the Man' - a showcase from QUT Acting.
Where: The Loft Theatre, Z2 Block, QUT Kelvin Grove
Creative Industries Precinct
The Creative Industries Precinct is made up of purpose-built teaching and learning spaces, including performance spaces, visual art galleries and music studios. The spaces are designed to make the creative process more visible, with windows and viewing panels allowing anyone to watch the work as it happens.
Double degree. Double opportunities.
A double degree can help you develop a portfolio of skills and capabilities to prepare you for the real world. Maximise your career opportunities and create your own specialist career niche within the creative arts by combining a degree with a complementary study area.
Final year projects
Discover how QUT creative arts students bring ideas to life through real-world projects in animation, film and screen, music and visual arts.
Explore real student work and stories that highlight creativity, innovation and collaboration at Queensland's top destination to study art and design (QS World University Rankings by Subject, 2026).
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