Study Abroad & Incoming Exchange at The University of Queensland Australia

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

Ranked 3rd nationally for its research activity and quality in the 2011 Excellence in Research for Australia report
Ranked 43rd in the World and one of seven Australian universities in the top 100 by the 2010 QS World University rankings. (http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/home) .
Placed in the Top 100 worldwide by the 2011 Times Higher Education Supplement
Ranked among the top 20 universities in the Asia Pacific and top 150 in the world by the 2010 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Academic Rankings of World Universities Study (http://www.arwu.org/)
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 demand, student staff ratios, research grants and research intensivity by the 2011 edition of The Good Universities Guide (http://www.gooduniguide.com.au/). 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.
Named top international academic institution outside the United States in The Scientist magazine’s Best Places to Work in Academia survey 2010.

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.

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