Postgraduate Study FAQs

You can find detailed information about annual course and administrative fees in Fee schedules.

You will need to find the course code discipline in the fee schedule tables, which in our case is mainly MRES and MOLI.
Please ensure you select the fee schedule relevant to you (Postgraduate coursework fees).

The Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) offers several schemes to support eligible students with the cost of their education.

HECS-HELP is available for Commonwealth Supported Places only and is not available for all of our programs.

A limited number of Commonwealth supported places (CSPs) are offered in the Graduate Certificate in Magnetic Resonance Technology on the basis of academic merit. See the fee for a CSP in this program. Once all CSPs have been exhausted, offers may be made on a tuition-fee-paying basis. Learn more about postgraduate fees.

All of our other programs are full fee-paying with no supported places. 

However, domestic students can access FEE-HELP which is a loan scheme that assists eligible fee-paying students to pay all or part of their tuition fees. It cannot be used for additional study costs such as accommodation or textbooks. To learn more and whether you are eligible for FEE-HELP, visit the Postgraduate Coursework information page: Review Fees and Financial Support. 

Yes, study plans are available for our programs and recommended to follow.

Students are recommended to plan their course enrolment for the entire program before commencing their first semester of study. This is because some elective courses have prerequisites that must be fulfilled in order to be eligible for course enrolment. With this in mind, we strongly recommend you to look at the Faculty of Science Study Planners for our postgraduate programs:

Postgraduate coursework in Magnetic Resonance Technology Study Planner

Graduate Certificate in Magnetic Resonance and Positron Emission Tomography Study Planner

Master in Molecular Imaging Technology Study Planner

Please note when planning your enrolment and choosing the elective courses in your study plans at the start of a program, you are not locked in for these courses. You are able to change your elective course preferences throughout the program but ensure you check the course offerings and program requirements carefully. It is important to note that elective courses are not always offered every semester.

In 2021, there will be changes to the elective courses in the MRT programs. Some elective courses in these programs will be discontinued from Semester 1, 2021. This only affects the Master and Graduate Diploma MRT Programs. 

Specifically, the following courses will be discontinued in 2021:

MRES7006 - Vascular Imaging
MRES7008 - Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MRES7024 - Advanced Techniques in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

To see the current course list of these programs, please visit the program course lists:

Master of Magnetic Resonance Technology (MMagResonTech) Course List

Graduate Diploma in Magnetic Resonance Technology (GDipMagResonTech) Course List

*Please note these lists are currently being updated to reflect the upcoming changes in 2021.

For more information about these programs, visit the program pages:

• Master of Magnetic Resonance Technology (MMagResonTech)
• Graduate Diploma in Magnetic Resonance Technology (GDipMagResonTech)​

Yes. Many of our students work full time while they study.

We recommend that students devote 10 hours per week per course. This may defer depending on personal circumstances. We suggest students working full time should only in enrol in a maximum of two courses per semester. Many students enrol in one course per semester.

It is important to note students are not locked into how many courses they can take a semester. Students can choose how many courses they take in each semester as long as it does not exceed the recommended study load. Students can change their study load before the Census Date. 

Yes. As long as you meet the program requirements you are planning to exit with, you can exit early from the MRT Program.

Please see some examples below:

Scenario 1

A student is enrolled in the Master of Magnetic Resonance Technology (MRT) (MMagResonTech) program and wants to do an early exit with a Graduate Diploma in Magnetic Resonance Technology. To be eligible for this, you will need to have completed (or be in the process of completing) 16 units from the Master of Magnetic Resonance Technology course list, comprising of:

• 8 units from Part A courses in the course list (MRES7100, MRES7002, MRES7003 & MRES7400) and
• 8 units from Part B courses, which must include a minimum of 6 units of MRES coded courses, including one of either MRES7010 or MRES7015.  Please note that enrolment in the MRES7015 course is a pathway option for students who want to progress into the Master of MRT degree.

Graduate Diploma in MRT Program Rules 

Scenario 2

A student is enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in MRT and wants to do an early exit with a Graduate Certificate in MRT. To be eligible for this, you will need to have completed 8 units from Part A of the Master of Magnetic Resonance Technology course list.

Graduate Certificate in MRT Program Rules

Yes, you can enrol in MRES7015 Independent Clinical Research Project (4 units) or MRES7018 Advanced Research Project (6 units) while completing the Graduate Diploma in MRT.

The main consideration between these two courses is that the Advanced Research Project (MRES7018) requires a two-week residential component at the Centre for Advanced Imaging at the UQ St Lucia campus in Brisbane. The timetabling of this will be dependent upon the individual student’s project and will be decided in conjunction with the student’s supervisor early in the semester. As this is a 6 unit research project, the residential component involves important practical experience in the area of imaging.

Master of MRT Program Rules

Yes. Unless your program rules require 'continuous enrolment', you can interrupt your studies by not enrolling in a subsequent semester. Read more about interrupting studies.

If the error message you receive is "Consent is needed to enrol in the class. The add transaction was not processed. (14640,38)", then you need to request permission from the Education Officer (via email) to enrol in the course and confirm you have completed the pre-requisites for course enrolment.

Once you have received permission, you will be added to the class permission list and be able to enrol in the course as usual. 

For support or enquiries, please contact cai@enquire.uq.edu.au.

For all programs, a maximum of 10 years from the time the learning was undertaken.

Consult section 2.4.3 in Policy of the 3.50.03 Recognition of Prior Learning Policy and Procedure for more information.