
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Postgraduate Overview
As one of Australia’s leading universities, you can be confident your Queensland University of Technology (QUT) qualification will be well regarded in Australia and overseas.
You’ll join a group of 11,000 postgraduate students in a QUT community of 50,000. Our staff and students come from many different cultural and religious backgrounds, including more than 9000 international students from 148 countries.
We emphasise real-world relevant courses and research and our graduates enjoy employment outcomes well above the national average for Australian universities.
We create our course content in collaboration with top industry professionals that includes opportunities to gain professional experience through workplace projects in Australia and overseas to ensure you graduate with a qualification that meets the current and future needs of your profession.
Transdisciplinary and transformative research
We tackle some of the biggest questions facing the planet by combining different disciplines and capabilities. Our students advance their research skills, translate them into broader work environments and engage with industry and innovation to deliver real-world impact through QUT’s best practice and transformative learning environment.
At QUT, you’ll conduct research that matters and delivers outputs with real societal impact. Our research strengths and priorities include:
- biomedical engineering, to deliver better health in our lifetime
- data science, to use that data to benefit our world
- digital media, for a flourishing digital society
- education, for better outcomes
- health outcomes, systems and services, practical insights to enable effective change
- materials science - curiosity-driven research
- plant and industrial biotechnology, to help feed the world sustainably
- robotics and computer vision, to benefit and inspire society
You will have plenty of opportunities to connect with researchers from across QUT and the broader community in one of QUT’s two major thematically focused research institutes, The Institute for Future Environments and the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation.
Engage in progressive research in one of the nine university research and training centres QUT leads, including the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Additive Biomanufacturing, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision.
Join the next generation of innovators and become a leader in high-impact, real-world research fields. Find out more about QUT research.
We’re invested in your future
QUT is constantly investing in world-class technology and learning facilities designed to encourage collaborative learning and problem-solving, enable creativity and innovation, and foster interdisciplinary connections. QUT accommodates an internationally and nationally awarded Science and Engineering Centre which incorporates one of the world’s largest and most advanced digital interactive learning and display spaces, The Cube. The new Education Precinct, opened in 2019, provides technology-equipped teaching spaces and features the only digital display of its type in the world, the Sphere.
An $80 million investment saw a major expansion of the Creative Industries Precinct, designed to shine a light on the creative process. The precinct houses purpose-built teaching and learning spaces with windows and viewing panels allowing anyone to watch the work as it happens.
QUT researchers are given the professional support and world-class infrastructure they need to progress their work in world class facilities.
Our research students can also enjoy flexible study options. You can study on or off campus, add coursework units to complement your research interests, and design a research program around your individual needs.
QUT's postgraduate study options include:
- Building and planning
- Business
- Creative practice, communication and design
- Education
- Health and community
- Languages, including English language pathway programs
- Law and justice
- Science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)
For all information related to postgraduate study visit the QUT website.
During their time at QUT, four QUT alumni, Josh Cameron, Alex Ghiculescu, Jake Phillpot and Tasmin Trezise, founded TANDA, the hugely successful global workforce management company. It's used today by more than 5000 companies across a range of industries. The four entrepreneurs were awarded the Young Alumni of the Year award in 2019. Watch their story.
Our achievement in numbers
QUT was recently ranked:- 1st in Australia and 17th in the world for Communication and Media Studies in the QS World University Ranking by Subject (2020)
- 7th in Australia and 35th in the world for Nursing in the QS World University Ranking by Subject (2020)
- 9th in Australia and in the 101-110 band globally in the QS Graduate Employability Ranking (2020)
- One of the top 250 universities globally in the QS Top Universities Ranking (2020)
- Top Young University in Australia in the THE Young University Rankings (2020)
- QUT Business School was Australia's first business school to achieve triple international accreditation (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA), a distinction held by less than 1% of business schools worldwide.
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Programs available
Postgraduate - Faculties/Departments and Programs
- Doctor of Creative Industries
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctor of Philosophy (Hosted by Creative Industries Faculty)
- Graduate Certificate in Digital Communication
- Graduate Diploma in Digital Communication
- Master of Architecture (from 2022)
- Master of Architecture (until 2022)
- Master of Digital Communication
- Master of Philosophy
- Doctor of Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Hosted by Faculty of Education)
- Graduate Certificate in Education
- Graduate Certificate in Education (Early Years)
- Graduate Certificate in Education (General Studies)
- Graduate Certificate in Education (Inclusive Education)
- Graduate Certificate in Education (Leadership and Management)
- Graduate Certificate in Education (STEM in Education)
- Graduate Certificate in Education (TESOL)
- Master of Education
- Master of Education (Double Major)
- Master of Education (Early Childhood Teaching)
- Master of Education (Early Years)
- Master of Education (General Studies)
- Master of Education (Inclusive Education)
- Master of Education (Leadership and Management)
- Master of Education (School Guidance and Counselling - General)
- Master of Education (STEM in Education)
- Master of Education (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages - TESOL)
- Master of Teaching (Early Childhood)
- Master of Teaching (Primary)
- Master of Teaching (Secondary)
- Doctor of Philosophy (Hosted by Faculty of Health)
- Graduate Certificate in Communication for Health
- Graduate Certificate in Diagnostic Genomics
- Graduate Certificate in Domestic Violence
- Graduate Certificate in Health Science
- Graduate Certificate in Nursing
- Graduate Certificate in Podiatric Therapeutics
- Graduate Diploma in Cardiac Ultrasound
- Graduate Diploma in Diagnostic Genomics
- Graduate Diploma in Environmental Health
- Graduate Diploma in Health Management
- Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultrasound
- Graduate Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety
- Graduate Diploma in Public Health
- Master of Advanced Practice Nursing
- Master of Clinical Psychology
- Master of Counselling
- Master of Diagnostic Genomics
- Master of Health Management
- Master of Health, Safety and Environment
- Master of Nurse Practitioner
- Master of Optometry
- Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental)
- Master of Public Health
- Master of Social Work - Qualifying
- Doctor of Philosophy (Hosted by QUT Business School)
- Executive Graduate Certificate in Business (Leadership through Coaching and Mentoring)
- Executive Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
- Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA)
- Graduate Certificate in Business
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Accounting)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Applied Finance)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Behavioural Economics)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Enterprise Leadership)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Forensic Accounting)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Human Resource Management)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Integrated Marketing Communication)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Interdisciplinary)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (International Business)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Management)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Marketing)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Professional Accounting)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Public Relations)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Public Sector Management)
- Graduate Certificate in Business (Strategic Advertising)
- Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
- Graduate Certificate in Business Administration (Digital)
- Graduate Certificate in Business and Communication
- Graduate Certificate in Business Process Management
- Graduate Certificate in Communication for Engineering
- Graduate Certificate in Project Management
- Graduate Diploma in Business
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Financial Planning)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Professional Accounting)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Research)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Research) (Accountancy)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Research) (Advertising)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Research) (Human Resource Management)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Research) (International Business)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Research) (Management)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Research) (Marketing)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Research) (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies)
- Graduate Diploma in Business (Research) (Public Relations)
- Master of Business
- Master of Business (Accounting)
- Master of Business (Applied Finance)
- Master of Business (Double)
- Master of Business (Human Resource Management)
- Master of Business (Integrated Marketing Communication)
- Master of Business (International Business)
- Master of Business (Management)
- Master of Business (Marketing)
- Master of Business (Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies)
- Master of Business (Professional Accounting)
- Master of Business (Public Relations)
- Master of Business (Strategic Advertising)
- Master of Business Administration (Digital MBA)
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Master of Business Process Management
- Master of Project Management
- Doctor of Philosophy (Hosted by Science and Engineering Faculty)
- Graduate Certificate in Communication for Information Technology
- Graduate Certificate in Data Analytics
- Graduate Certificate in Data and New Technology Law
- Graduate Diploma in Applied Science (Medical Physics)
- Master of Applied Science (Medical Physics)
- Master of Data Analytics
- Master of Engineering
- Master of Engineering Management
- Master of Information Technology
- Master of Information Technology - Graduate Entry
- Master of Professional Engineering
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University Highlights
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is one of the top Public universities in Brisbane, Australia. It is ranked #=217 in QS Global World University Rankings 2021.