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Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Queensland is the university of choice for more than half of Queensland’s top performing secondary school students.

19 of 34 Queensland Certificate of Education will start at Â鶹ÊÓƵ this week.

The recognise and reward Queensland’s top students for outstanding academic achievement in their senior studies.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Learning) said it was a pleasure to witness the excitement and enthusiasm of these new university students.

“These students are predominantly entering science, biomedicine and medicine and engineering,” Professor Macdonald said.

“Â鶹ÊÓƵ is thrilled to be able to guide these award-winning school-leavers through this next phase of their lives, and we are very committed to their future learning.”

Professor Macdonald said she was pleased that the recipient of the QCE Highest Achievement by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Student award, Kyle Ryan from Glenala State High School, had chosen to study at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

“Kyle is a delightful, enthusiastic student who says he feels very much at home with his choice to study science, and is ambitious to follow on with Medicine at Â鶹ÊÓƵ,” she said.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ of Queensland welcomed more than 14,000 new students this week.

“As a world top-50, research-focused university, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is perennially in strong demand from undergraduate students,” Professor Macdonald said.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ students:

• Callum Young from Caboolture State High School plans to study a Bachelor of Biomedical Science, then a Doctor of Medicine and has been awarded a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship
• Eloise Browne from Brisbane State High School will be studying a Bachelor Maths/Science dual degree at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, majoring in pure maths and physics
• Hainian Yu from Brisbane Boys’ College has been offered a Â鶹ÊÓƵ merit scholarship and will study a Bachelor of Music (Honours), followed by a Medical Degree 
• Jacob White from Brisbane Boys’ College Plans to study medicine at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and was offered a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship
• Jacob Connors from West Moreton Anglican College has been offered a Â鶹ÊÓƵ scholarship to study a dual degree in Engineering/Arts
• Jessemin Firman from John Paul College wants to study Medicine at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and developed an interest in anatomy through art
• Kyle Ryan from Glenala State High School will be attending Â鶹ÊÓƵ to study Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours).  Received a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Young Achiever's Scholarship. 
• Lachlan Masek from Brisbane Grammar School has achieved provisional entry into a Doctor of Medicine at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and will commence Bachelor of Science.  Received Sydney Scholars Award 
• Lokman Lo from Somerset College will be studying Medicine at Â鶹ÊÓƵ
• Madeline Nurcombe from Cannon Hill Anglican College received a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Vice-Chancellor's scholarship to study a Bachelor of Mathematics and Bachelor of Science 
• Natasha Traves from Genesis Christian College will be undertaking a dual degree in Mathematics and Biomedical Science and received the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship
• Nicholas Sheppard from Brisbane Grammar School wants to study an Engineering-Biotech dual degree at Â鶹ÊÓƵ
• Nikita Noon from Park Ridge State High School has been accepted into Vet Science at Â鶹ÊÓƵ Gatton and has always wanted to be a vet. 
• Ou Yu from Brisbane State High School will be studying Bachelor of Science, majoring in biomedicine, then medicine at Â鶹ÊÓƵ
• Patrick Litchfield from St Laurence’s College has been accepted into a Doctor of Medicine course at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and received a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Merit Scholarship
• Sophie Watson from Somerville House has received provisional entry into Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Doctor of Medicine program and a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Merit Scholarship and will be studying a Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours) as undergraduate degree
• Tristan Hurree from St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace will be studying Medicine at Â鶹ÊÓƵ
• William Fogg from Atherton State High School is taking a gap year in 2017.  Has applied to study Engineering and Science at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and has received a Â鶹ÊÓƵ Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship
• Bella Zhong from All Saints Anglican School wants a career in medicine and has received Â鶹ÊÓƵ and University of Melbourne scholarships

You can see all QCE Achievement Award winners .

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