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UQ Business School is distinguished by cutting-edge research, quality of academic staff, depth of educational programs and close links with industry.

The UQ Business School is a school of The University of Queensland (UQ), one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions. Founded in 1910, it is the largest and oldest university in Queensland and has produced generations of graduates who have gone on to become leaders in all areas of society and industry.

UQ Business School's teaching and research endeavours are clustered into the following discipline areas:

  • Accounting & accountability
  • Business information systems
  • Enterprise & international business
  • Finance
  • Marketing, and
  • Organisation & communication

Each 'cluster' is led by a Professor who works with colleagues to develop excellence in teaching and research.

UQ Business School is Australia’s first business school to achieve dual accreditation from AACSB International and EQUIS - the world’s pre-eminent accrediting bodies. UQ Business School now joins the ranks of London Business School, INSEAD, Thunderbird, Warwick Business School, Rotterdam School of Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of St. Gallen, University of Washington, HEC Montreal, Asian Institute of Management, as holders of dual full accreditation from EQUIS and AACSB. With the granting of the European EQUIS accreditation, UQ Business School is now recognised globally as a premier business school, and allows graduates to be recognised for the quality of their degree worldwide.

The School currently has more than 5,000 students enrolled across its comprehensive range of undergraduate, honours, coursework masters and higher degree research programs.

Areas of staff expertise include:
  • Accounting policy choice
  • Accounting standard setting & external reporting disclosures
  • Asset and derivative security pricing
  • Bank performance measurement
  • Capital Market Theory
  • Company valuation methods
  • Consumer behaviour & multi-market service delivery
  • Corporate finance
  • Corporate strategy
  • Control & audit of computer systems
  • Database design, internal controls & software reliability
  • Design & delivery of government services
  • Electronic commerce in small firms
  • Funds management
  • Innovation Policy and Management
  • Interfirm business networks
  • International business management and competitiveness
  • International finance
  • Management of performance
  • Portfolio theory
  • Studies of organisational change
  • Strategic and competitive analysis
  • Structure of boards of directors,/ul>

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