The University of Queensland

Located in Brisbane, the University of Queensland is among Australia's top public research and teaching universities. Also known as UQ, it was established through a 1909 Act of Parliament of State. Moreover, it was the first educational university in the state and was officially formed in 1910.

The university teaching was started in 1911 with three faculties of Arts, Engineering and Science providing education to 83 students. In 2017, the University had over 52,000 students, including above 15,000 foreign students from over 140 countries. The university offers graduation, associate, master, doctoral and superior doctorate degrees. It maintains a college, a graduate school and six renowned faculties.

The UQ Graduate School offers noteworthy support to higher education by research (HDR) students by providing them with several research travel rewards and scholarships. Not just this, it also provides dedicated office spaces and skills training for the overall development of students. Moreover, there is a Student Employability Centre which offers opportunities and strong support to students so that they can achieve their individual goals. 

• The University of Queensland is among the world’s top 50 universities as measured by Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities
• As far as PhD enrolments are concerned, the university is amongst the largest in Australia and the nation's top three universities for PhD completions
• It maintains 20 sites with 551 buildings covering an area of 782,216 m2 with more than 400 general teaching rooms and over 1300 labs
• The library holds 2.4 million electronic and print book titles, 148,000 journals, more than 330,000 research items and wide-ranging cultural and historical books
• UQ is ranked in the list of top 100 prestigious universities across the globe
• The University Of Queensland Business School's Master of Business Administration degree is placed 10th worldwideand 1st in the Asia Pacific
• It offers a large number of sport and fitness opportunities at its two major campuses, including St. Lucia and Gatton