The Australian National University (ANU) will be accepting more students for courses this year than previous years.

The latest national early round of university offers has been announced today, including 300 places at the ANU.

ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young says this includes students wanting to enrol in courses such as music which do not necessarily require a university entry mark.

"Places we will be offering in the early round are to people who are in our Principals' Recommendation Scheme," Professor Young said.

"So we have a scheme for particularly regional and rural areas where they can be recommended by their principal. We'll also be taking students in our indigenous program, art and music programs as well."

The main round of offers for school leavers will be released later this month with the ANU expected to offer almost 3,000 further places.

Professor Young says students will have more opportunities for a tertiary education this year.

"We'll be making something like about 2,700 offers in the main round which will probably be about 200 or 300 more offers ... which will mean that particularly for students in the Canberra region, there will be greater opportunities I think for finding a place within the ANU."