The University of Queensland is restructuring its faculties from 1 January 2014.

9 December 2013
University of Queensland President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj and Hanban Director-General Madam Xu Lin in China this week.

A key global organisation for Chinese scholarship and culture has added The University of Queensland’s President and Vice-Chancellor to its senior consultancy board.

14 November 2013
The agreement was signed by UQ President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Peter Høj, and World Bank Director of Operations, Dr Ethel Sennhauser.

The natural wealth of coastlines in the East Asia-Pacific is set to be unlocked for coastal communities, under an agreement between The University of Queensland (UQ) and the World Bank signed in Washington DC today (6 November).

7 November 2013

The University of Queensland Business School’s Master of Business Administration has been ranked 14th in the world in The Economist’s 2013 MBA rankings.

11 October 2013

The University of Queensland (UQ) has continued its surge in global university tables, ranking 67th in the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities released by the National Taiwan University (NTU) today.

10 October 2013

The University of Queensland has yet again improved in a major world university ranking, to be 63rd in the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2013-14, released today.

3 October 2013

A University of Queensland program designed to improve the quality of mathematics and science teachers has attracting $2.2 million in funding from the Australian Government’s Office for Learning and Teaching.

30 September 2013

Eight researchers and two research supervisors working across a range of disciplines were celebrated at a University of Queensland awards ceremony tonight.

17 September 2013

The University of Queensland has again moved up the ladder of the world's top 50 universities, climbing from 46th to 43rd position overall in the QS World University Rankings released today.

10 September 2013

The University of Queensland (UQ) has improved its position in the top 100 Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWU) for 2013, announced today.

15 August 2013
UQ graduates who completed their studies in 1913, pictured at their graduation ceremony the following year. Image courtesy of Fryer Library.

Queensland celebrates a century of home-grown university graduates this month, 100 years after The University of Queensland (UQ) graduated its first five students.

12 July 2013
Prominent US energy expert Professor Eric McFarland will lead the new multimillion Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation at UQ.

In a coup for Queensland, prominent US energy expert, Professor Eric McFarland will lead the new multimillion Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation at The University of Queensland (UQ).

11 June 2013

Australia has maintained its overall ranking at eighth position in the second annual Universitas 21 assessment, which compares the quality of higher education systems in 50 countries.

9 May 2013

Studies in four key disciplines at The University of Queensland rank in the international top 10 in the latest QS World University Subject Rankings.

8 May 2013

Groundbreaking research to develop new guidelines to assess air quality in mining regions is underway between The University and Queensland and INCT-ACQUA, a research institute supported by three leading institutions in Brazil.

30 April 2013

The latest in world-class mining solutions will be offered directly to the Latin American region, with the establishment of a new office in Santiago, Chile.

26 April 2013

El establecimiento de una nueva oficina en Santiago ofrecerá directamente a la región de América Latina lo último en soluciones de minería de clase mundial.

26 April 2013

The University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj said he applauded the ambition to have a top school system in Australia, but proposed cuts to university funding as part of the Gonski education reform were extremely disappointing.

15 April 2013

The University of Queensland has welcomed today’s release by the UQ Union of an independent auditor’s report. The Union also released an action plan in response to the audit’s findings.

12 April 2013
Professor Andrew White, Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Høj, Professor Max Lu, Professor David Craik and Professor Matthew Brown

The University of Queensland’s place as a global research leader has been highlighted with today’s announcement that five UQ scientists are among 20 new Australian Academy of Science Fellows for 2013.

27 March 2013