International tertiary education students who are fully vaccinated will be able to return to the ACT from the start of the 2022 academic year.
The students must have had a COVID-19 vaccine recognised by the Therapeutic Goods Administration and follow federal government testing requirements, the territory government said on Friday.
They will not be required to quarantine in the ACT.
"It's great to have clarity about arrangements in the ACT and to know that as soon as the borders open our students can come straight home to campus," Australian National University Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt said.
The ACT reported 13 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, as the capital's retail stores reopened to customers for the first time in more than two months.
Canberra's vaccination also rate continues to climb, with the number of over-12s fully vaccinated at 84.6 per cent.
The number of patients in hospital stands at 20, with 11 in intensive care and five on a ventilator.
All retail stores in the ACT are now able able to operate under a density limit of one person per four square metres.
More restrictions are set to ease on 29 October, including masks no longer being mandatory outdoors, larger gathering limits and changes to density limits.
Travel will open to all of NSW from 1 November, with people entering the ACT from the state no longer needing to undergo two weeks of quarantine.
Only high-risk local government areas will be barred from entering the territory but the threshold for which areas are declared hotspots will be increased.
Restrictions will ease further at the end of November.
