Global reputation

The University of Queensland’s (UQ) reputation for quality is reinforced by international rankings and affiliations.

Ranked as one of Australia’s best universities in the 2008 edition of the Good Universities Guide.
Ranked 41st in the World University Rankings, compiled by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2009 and the only Queensland university, and one of only a handful of Australian universities, appearing in the top 50 list.
Ranked as the top university in Queensland and among the top 150 Universities in the respected Academic Ranking of World Universities by the Institute of Higher Education at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Founding member of the Group of Eight (Go8) – a leading group of Australian universities that collectively enrols one-third of all university students and conducts 70 percent of all university research in Australia. Go8 graduates boast a full-time employment rate almost five percent above that of other Australian universities.
One of only three Australian members of Universitas 21 – a select international network of comprehensive, research-intensive universities committed to world-best quality and practice.
Awarded the maximum five-star rating for student staff ratios, research grants and research intensivity by the 2010 edition of Good Universities Guide. UQ also earned four-star rankings in the categories of getting a job, positive graduate outcomes, graduate starting salaries, access by equity groups, international enrolments and gender balance.
Strong partnerships (pdf) with some of the most renowned institutions in the world.

UQ focuses on three key areas, Learning, Discovery and Engagement and continues to drive these values forward through development and innovation and learning.

The mission of The University of Queensland is to create a community dedicated to achieving national and international levels of excellence in teaching, research and scholarship, one that makes significant contributions to the intellectual, cultural, social and economic life of the State of Queensland and the Australian and international communities.

World-class research institutes and centres, continuing development of innovative programs, courses and pedagogies and an abiding commitment to enhanced levels of quality assurance and accountability reflect some of the ways in which The University of Queensland seeks to honour its responsibilities both to its own community and to the wider communities with which it interacts.