The University of the Sunshine Coast Gympie will be welcoming 47 new students to their campus for Orientation week starting Wednesday 21 February.
UniSC Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Helen Bartlett said she was pleased to see strong enrolment numbers, and a particularly strong growth across the engineering programs.
“It’s such an exciting time for new students, the chance to visit their new campus before the serious study begins,” Professor Bartlett said.
The most in-demand undergraduate courses for 2024 are Bachelor of Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Primary Education, Business, Paramedicine and Clinical Exercise Science.
Commencing student Baxter Burke is looking forwards to applying his lifelong love of the outdoors towards studying a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) and Bachelor of Environmental Studies in a double degree.
“My interests in sustainability were sparked through my parents from a young age as they taught me to think and live sustainably,” said Baxter, who received an early offer to study while still a school Vice-Captain in Year 12 at Caloundra State High School last year.
Along with a group of fellow students and teachers, he formed an environmental club to implement eco-friendly ideas at the school and used his leadership position to encourage others.
“I knew I wanted to do something that makes a change in some way, whether that’s helping out the environment or the next generation,” he said.
“UniSC had a degree that offered exactly that, so I jumped at the opportunity.”
Last year, UniSC placed equal 29th in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings measured against the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
