3 years Full time or 2 years Part time & 2 years Full time
Launch your career with Australia’s No. 1 university for midwifery (ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2024). You’ll have the unique opportunity to follow 20 women throughout their pregnancy until six weeks after birth, requiring you to be on-call to attend the labour and birth – an immersive, highly valued learning experience. Our blended learning approach includes clinical practice and theory, face-to-face in workshops, simulated practice and extensive compulsory midwifery practice in a range of settings. Learn from expert midwifery clinicians, researchers and award-winning teachers who lead the field in midwifery education, research and practice. Graduates are prepared to work in all models of midwifery practice providing autonomous deeply woman-centred culturally safe care using sound midwifery decision-making skills. Access Australia’s first innovative university-based student-led midwifery clinic at the Gold Coast campus and gain hands-on experience through placements at top hospitals and clinics including Logan Hospital (including Beaudesert), Redlands Hospital, Gold Coast University Hospital, Toowoomba Hospital, Ipswich Hospital (new in 2026), Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Northern NSW Local Health District, and midwifery private practices. International placements are also available. For more course information, visit Bachelor of Midwifery at GU.
Griffith University
All on campus teaching sessions are offered on Logan campus, with some midwifery laboratory sessions also available at Gold Coast and Toowoomba. The program duration is three years. Eligible students may complete the first year part-time over two years.
If you are undertaking or considering alternate tertiary studies in order to apply to this program for the following intake, to maximise your rank you may need to complete a minimum of 1 year of full-time equivalent of study. For further information, visit Upgrading via University Studies.
This is an indicative only amount for first year fees. For further information refer to griffith.edu.au/fees-charges
Students are allocated to a partner hospital for their whole program. Note: Students start clinical experiences in Trimester 1, so all mandatory requirements must be undertaken before (or as soon as) offers are received. A health check, including immunisation status (especially hepatitis B immunity), a Suitability Card and an Australian National Police Check (at own expense) are required. Applicants must complete a nationally accredited first aid certificate with CPR (at their own expense) before the first placement. Students must meet all professional practice requirements. For more information, visit Health Placement Support Hub.
Applicants must meet the minimum age requirements for admission, see the QTAC website for details.
New applications lodged after 8 December 2025 may not be assessed in time for the January offer round. Applications for this program close 29 December 2025, so applicants may add this program to their preferences until this date, however no guarantee is given that applications will be assessed in time for the January offer round. After 29 December 2025, no new applicants can apply, but existing applicants can reorder this preference. Late offers after the January offer round will only be made if places remain in the program.
Applicants must nominate on their QTAC application their hospital preferences from the following list: Gold Coast, Ipswich, Logan, Redlands, Ipswich Hospital (new in 2026), Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba, and Northern NSW Local Health District (including Byron, Tweed Valley and Lismore). In your third year, you may have an opportunity to complete a rural or international clinical placement. While the university endeavours to provide placement preferences, this is not guaranteed. On rare occasions students may need to either relocate to undertake a placement, or enrol part time until their preferred site becomes available.
English Language Proficiency Requirements: To enrol in this program, you must have attended and satisfactorily completed at least 6 years of primary and secondary education taught and assessed solely in English. At least two years of this education must have been between grades 7 and 12. This education must have been completed in one of the following countries; Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, United States of America. If you have not met these educational requirements, you are required to provide evidence of an acceptable English Language test or evidence that you are currently registered as an Enrolled Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. For more information, visit the QTAC website.
Important offer advice: Should you receive an offer into this program you will be required to enrol into classes* within a short timeframe. This information will be included in your Starting@Griffith email and expressed in the number of days from the day of issue of your email and is in line with the offer response date in your QTAC offer email. Please note that the number of days can vary depending on when the offer was made. This applies irrespective of whether you accepted conditionally or unconditionally. If you do not enrol* into at least one class for your program by 5pm on the response day your offer will lapse. Lapsed offers are not automatically reinstated and reinstatement is subject to available places. *Enrolling into classes means that you are advising when you are attending class/es. Enrolment must be submitted.
Applicants who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander should visit First Peoples Health Pathway.
Griffith Guaranteed Admission Schemes do not apply to this program.
English, English as an Additional Language, Literature or English & Literature Extension (Units 3 and 4, C).
For more information about the ATAR/Selection Rank profile, please visit ATAR/Selection Rank profile explained.
ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors
96.25
ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors
99.95
ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors
85.65
ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors
91.80
ATAR/Selection Rank excluding adjustment factors
79.45
ATAR/Selection Rank including adjustment factors
87.20
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.
For more information about the Student profile, please visit Student profile explained.
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Midwifery private practice, public or private hospitals and healthcare settings, maternity and neonatal care, rural and remote health, international aid organisations, midwifery education, research and academia.
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (via the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency).