SCHOOLS & INSTITUTIONS

Qantm College

Postal address for enquiries:
Student Services
Qantm College
PO Box 15477
CITY EAST QLD 4002

Telephone: (National) 1300 136 933

Qantm College is Australia’s most progressive and innovative new media education provider. Since its establishment in 1996 Qantm College has become a leading private provider of creative digital media education in Australia and has pioneered high quality courses for emerging industries such as digital animation, digital interactive design, and interactive entertainment. Students can choose between degree, diploma and certificate programs in the areas of interactive digital media, games programming, games design, animation, digital video production, and graphic design.

Qantm College’s main campus is located in the heart of Brisbane, with other campuses in Sydney and Melbourne. The College’s education environment includes specialised classrooms with industry standard hardware and software as well as both physical and virtual libraries for research. In addition, teaching staff have sound academic experience as well as specialised skills and knowledge and current industry experience.

The focus in the diploma programs is on a practical education providing real world skills, and ensuring that graduates are well placed for employment or further studies. The degree programs provide hands-on delivery with the addition of contextual content to ensure students develop a full understanding of the industries they are entering.
Through its involvement with industry the College has forged strong working relationships with games, entertainment, education, animation, and interactive media companies. This ensures further industry exposure for students through lunchbox lectures and an up-to-date curriculum. The College holds industry nights at the end of each year where graduating students showcase their projects to industry representatives for the purposes of recruitment.

Qantm College holds membership of a number of industry peak bodies such as: ACPET (Australian Council for Private Education and Training); GDAA (Games Developers Association of Australia); The Brisbane Adobe Users Group; and WIT (Women in Technology). Industry associations include Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft, Wacom, Krome, Pandemic, THQ, and the IIB (Information Industries Bureau).

Qantm College graduates have won national and international awards and are highly sought after by the digital media industries both in Australia and overseas. Awards include: • 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2004 – Games Connect: Asia Pacific Conference - Best Unpublished ‘Independent’ Game (Degree students) • 2003 – student team ‘Veneficium’ was third place winner in Auran’s international ‘Next Year’s Game’ Competition • 2001 – Judges Special Award for Excellence in Student Design and Production, AIMIA Awards
(Diploma of Multimedia students) • 2000 – Best Student Title, AIMIA Awards (Diploma of Multimedia students) and 2000 – Best IT Innovation in Education, IT & T Awards (Diploma of Information Technology (Software Development) – specialising in games).

In 2006, 2003 and 2001 Qantm College was awarded the Best Small Training Provider of the Year, Queensland Training Awards, and was a finalist in the National Award in 2006.

FEE-HELP

The Qantm College degree courses have been approved for FEE-HELP assistance and the Qantm College diploma courses have been approved for VET FEE-HELP assistance. Contact Qantm College for further details.

Facilities

Classrooms are air-conditioned and are professionally fitted with industry standard hardware and software packages. Class sizes are limited to a maximum of 30 students and one workstation is allocated per student with access to burning and scanning facilities. Students are able to borrow equipment such as digital still and video cameras, drawing tablets, and relevant texts that will assist them in reaching their learning outcomes and in producing high quality portfolios.

Student Accommodation

There are no residential accommodation facilities offered through Qantm College, however we do have a relationship with student accommodation organisations which can assist students with accommodation.

Student Support Services

The staff at Qantm College are available to assist students and prospective students with: training options and career advice; government financial assistance advice; payment plan and study loan options; library access; access to information technology facilities such as industry-relevant software and hardware, Internet and email facilities, and tutorial support through computer labs; and student counselling.

Scholarships

Contact Qantm College for details about scholarships.

Publications

Detailed information on programs, units of study, fees and enrolment procedures can be emailed to prospective students in PDF format and is also available as hard-copy brochures that can be sent by mail. Please call or email Qantm College or visit www.qantm.com.au for more information.

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