Bachelor of Oral Health - 858701

Bachelor of Oral Health

858701

Health and Recreation

Full time

Course Fee

CSP

CQUniversity - Rockhampton

Start Date

Mar 2026

Duration

3 years Full time

Offer Rounds

15 Jan 2026

Overview Admissions Criteria Student Profile Career Possibilities

Course outline

This course equips students with the skills and knowledge to practise as an Oral Health Therapist. Students will develop skills to effectively perform preventive and operative dentistry for patients and provide specialist dental practices. In addition, the education and training will provide students with underpinning industry knowledge so they can educate and promote oral health in small group and community settings. The course has a strong focus on work-integrated learning in pre-clinical and clinical settings such as the purpose-fit oral health laboratory and dental clinic at CQUniversity Rockhampton. During the course, students will benefit from learning alongside students in other health courses in facilities such as CQUniversity’s Allied Health Clinic. For more course information, visit Bachelor of Oral Health.

CQUniversity

Note

This course has strict enrolment requirements. Successful applicants must accept the offer and enrol in units with CQU by the date stated on the offer letter. If you fail to do so, or if you withdraw from your units within this course, your offer will be revoked. This requirement applies irrespective of whether you accepted conditionally or unconditionally in your QTAC application.

Other requirements

Students are required to undertake a minimum of 1000 hours of clinical placement. The Bachelor of Oral Health course involves extensive training in a clinical environment, initially using simulator technologies before progressing to full-time clinical placements in an oral health environment. Students should be prepared in their final year of study to spend four days per week in full-time clinical placements as part of the course requirements. Students must meet the inherent, security, health, and other requirements throughout their studies. visit Bachelor of Oral Health.

Admissions Criteria

For additional information about the admissions criteria for CQUniversity and this course, refer to CQUniversity’s website.

Prerequisites

English, Literature, English and Literature Extension or English as an Additional Language (Units 3 and 4, C); One of Chemistry, Biology or Physics (Units 3 and 4, C); Completion of Year 12 or attained age 17 years

Fixed closing date

Applications for this course close Monday, 8 December 2025.

Recommended study

General Mathematics, Mathematical Methods or Specialist Mathematics (Units 3 and 4, C).

Minimum Selection thresholds (ATAR/Selection Rank) for semester/trimester/term 1, 2025

ATAR/Selection Rank profile for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR/Selection Rank for semester/trimester/term 1, 2025

For more information about the ATAR/Selection Rank profile, please visit ATAR/Selection Rank profile explained.

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors

<5*

ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors

<5*

Notes

* “<5" – indicates less than 5 ATAR/Selection Rank based offers were made

Excluding: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made, excluding adjustment factors.
Including: The lowest ATAR/Selection Rank to which an offer was made including any adjustment factors that may have been applied.

Student Profile by Applicant background for semester/trimester/term 1, 2025

For more information about the Student profile, please visit Student profile explained.

Number of students

Percentage of all students

64.3%

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

Number of students

Percentage of all students

0.0%

Recent secondary education admitted solely on the basis of ATAR/Rank Admitted where both ATAR/Rank and additional criteria were considered Admitted on the basis of other criteria only and ATAR/Rank was not a factor

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

Number of students

Percentage of all students

0.0%

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

Number of students

<5*

Percentage of all students

<5*

All students

Number of students

Percentage of all students

100%

Notes

* “<5" – the number of students is less than 5

Career opportunities

Oral Health Therapist in general and specialist dental practices within Australia.

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