Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a major Australian university with a global outlook and a 'real-world' focus.  With over 48,000 students, including almost 8000 international students from more than 100 countries, QUT maintains close links with business representatives and industry professionals who contribute to course development and lend practical perspectives to students’ theoretical education.  QUT is located in subtropical Brisbane, which is Australia’s third largest city and known for its vibrant urban precincts, outdoor lifestyle, friendly locals, superb climate and safety, by world standards.

QUT offers over 650 undergraduate and postgraduate study options that include extensive research programs and delivers real world outcomes for students through its provision of leading academics, state-of the-art-teaching facilities and a focussed approach to learning.

Real World Opportunities

A QUT degree provides opportunities to gain practical workplace experience and valuable industry connections.   QUT produces world-class research across a range of disciplines and has been awarded six Australian Laureate Fellowships since 2000, the latest to Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik, Professor Dmitri Golberg and Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen - who is also the first female to be awarded the Pitman Medal for her work with Bayesian statistics.

A QUT degree provides opportunities to gain practical workplace experience and valuable industry connections.   Alumni of QUT include world-leading NASA astrobiologist and Mars 2020 mission leader  Dr Abigail Allwood and Tashi Chhozom, the first woman to be appointed Justice of the Supreme Court in Bhutan.  QUT has also produced eight Rhodes Scholars since 1998, five in the past seven years.  The QUT Business School was the first business school in Australia to achieve triple international accreditation (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA) and the School remains in the top 1% worldwide.

As a multi-campus institution, QUT accommodates an internationally and nationally awarded Science and Engineering Centre which incorporates the world’s largest and most advanced digital interactive learning and display space (The Cube).  2016 saw the opening of the new Creative Industries Precinct and the new Education Precinct will be opened in 2018.

The university has two major thematically focused research institutes:  The Institute for Future Environments  and the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation– the largest medical research institute in the southern hemisphere.  Additionally, QUT leads six nationally endorsed research centres including one in Creative Industries and Innovation and one in Robotic Vision.

Real World Courses

QUT’s undergraduate and postgraduate study options include:

• Building and planning
• Business
• Creative, design and performance
• Education
• Engineering
• Health and community
• Information technology
• Languages, including English language pathway programs
• Law and justice
• Science and mathematics

A QUT degree provides opportunities to gain practical workplace experience and valuable industry connections.  QUT was recently ranked:

• 1st in Australia and 24th in the world for Communication and Media Studies in the QS World University Ranking by Subject (2017)
• 9th in Australia and 42nd in the world for Nursing in the QS World University Ranking by Subject (2017)
• 7th in Australia and in the 61-70 band globally in the QS Graduate Employability Ranking (2017)
• One of the top 250 universities globally in the QS Top Universities Ranking (2017)