The University of Queensland Fact Sheet Australia
GLOBAL RECOGNITION LOCATION The University of Queensland is a founding member of the The University of Group of Eight (Go8), an alliance of research-strong Queensland is lo- "sandstone" universities committed to ensuring that Austra- cated in Southeast lia has higher education institutions which are genuinely Queensland on Aus- world class. This group of Australian universities undertakes tralia’s eastern coast. 70 percent of all Australian research. UQ St Lucia - the www.go8.edu.au University’s largest campus - is located in UQ is one of the three Australian members of Universitas Brisbane, a dynamic 21, a select international alliance of leading research- capital city. intensive universities. The network's purpose is to facilitate collaboration and cooperation between the member univer- sities and to create opportunities for them on a scale that none of them would be able to achieve operating independ- Founded: December 10, 1909 ently or through traditional bilateral alliances. www.universitas21.com
World Ranking: 43 (Times Higher Education) UQ Business School was the first in Australia to earn ac- creditation by the world’s most prestigious business school Country Ranking: 4 (Times Higher Education) education organizations. It is recognized by AACSB Inter- Campuses: St. Lucia, Ipswich, Gatton national for the US and the European Foundation for Management Development (which awards EQUIS accredi- tation). Faculty / Staff: 5,661 (2,408 Acad. & 3,253 General) http://www.aacsb.edu http://www.efmd.org Total Students: 37,952 The University of Queensland has won more Australian International Students: 6,957 (from 113 countries) Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) than any other uni- versity. Postgraduate Students: 9,933 http://www.dest.gov.au/
Research Centers: 130+ CREDIT LOAD & COURSE NUMBERING
Library Collection: 2.5 million+ volumes A standard full-time load is equal to four (4) courses per semester. A standard course is equal to ten (10) University Buildings: 774 of Queensland credits which is considered equal to four (4) American university credits*. If the course has a lab, it is Classrooms / Labs: 1955 assigned twelve (12) University of Queensland credits and is considered equal to five (5) American university credits*. Land: 1464 hectares 10 UQ credits = 4 U.S. semester credits* Total Revenue (2007): $1,049.79 million 12 UQ credits (lab) = 5 U.S. semester credits (lab)* * suggested Total Expenses: $976.67 million 1000-level courses are Year One at UQ 2000-level courses are Year Two at UQ Assets: $2,554 million 3000-level courses are Year Three at UQ 4000-level courses are Year Four at UQ Research Income (2006): $215 million First year courses at the University of Queensland are Programs: Exchange / Direct Enrollment generally equivalent to 2000-level courses at UConn. Restrictions: Most Health Science courses are not open for exchange students Required GPA: 3.0 (for UConn students) (Medicine, Dentistry, etc). For Science and Engineering faculties students must have appropriate academic background in order to take 2000 and 3000-level courses. Semester Length: 16 weeks University of Queensland Website: www.uq.edu.au Semester 1: February - June Courses / Syllabi: http://www.uq.edu.au/study/search.html?action=course_form Semester 2: July - November UQ Study Abroad / Exchange: www.uq.edu.au/studyabroad ACADEMIC ASSESMENT UQ PARTNERS
Assessment at the University of Queensland is by par- Group of Eight (Australia) ticipation in tutorials, practical work and the completion University of Queensland of written assignments and examinations. Australian National University Academic performance is graded according to a University of New South Wales seven-point scale: University of Sydney University of Adelaide Monash University 7 High Distinction A University of Melborne 6 Distinction A University of Western Australia
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4 Pass C Universitas 21 3 and below Fail F Australia Mexico University of Queensland Technologico de Monterrey University of Melbourne New Zealand FACULTIES University of New South Wales University of Auckland Canada Singapore Faculty of Arts McGill University National University of Singa- University of British Columbia pore http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/index.html China South Korea Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences (BACS) Fudan University Korea University http://www.bacs.uq.edu.au/ Shanghai Jiaotong University Sweden Hong Kong Lund University Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (BEL) University of Hong Kong United Kingdom http://www.bel.uq.edu.au/ India University of Birmingham Delhi University University of Edinburgh Faculty of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Ireland University of Glasgow Architecture (EPSA) University College Dublin University of Nottingham Japan United States of America http://www.epsa.uq.edu.au/ Waseda University University of Virginia Faculty of Health Sciences http://www.uq.edu.au/health/ Other UQ Partners listed in the top 100 Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Universities by the Times Higher Education 2008 Veterinary Science (NRAVS) http://www.uq.edu.au/nravs/ Imperial College London, U.K. (6) University of Pennsylvania, U.S. (11) Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Princeton University, U.S. (12) http://www.uq.edu.au/sbs/ Cornell University, U.S. (15) University of Tokyo, Japan (19) McGill University, Canada (20) INSTITUTES The University of Edinburgh, U.K. (23) The University of Hong Kong (26) Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) National University of Singapore (30) http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/ University of California, U.S. (30) The University of British Columbia, Canada (34) Australian Institute for Bioengineering & University of Toronto, Canada (41) Nanotechnology (AIBN) Chinese University of Hong Kong (42) http://www.aibn.uq.edu.au/ Osaka University, Japan (44)
Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) University of Copenhagen, Denmark (48) http://www.smi.uq.edu.au/ Peking University, P.R. China (50) Seoul National University, South Korea (50) Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) University of Wisconsin - Madison, U.S. (55) http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/ University of Washington, U.S. (59) Washington University, St. Louis, U.S. (60) UQ Diamantina Institute for Cancer, Immunology University of Uppsala, Sweden (63) and Metabolic Medicine University of Auckland, New Zealand (65) http://www.di.uq.edu.au/ University of Texas at Austin, U.S. (70)
Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S. (71) http://www.uq.edu.au/issr/ The University of Glasgow, U.K. (73) University of Alberta, Canada (74) The University of Birmingham, U.K. (75) The University of Sheffield, U.K. (76) SITES & CENTERS Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (77) UQ Operates about 50 sites throughout Queensland in hos- The University of Nottingham, U.K. (86) Lund University, Sweden (88) pitals, on tropical islands and it even has its own experimen- Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (95) tal mine. UQ is involved in an additional 118 centers and University of Virginia, U.S. (96) institutes. Purdue University, U.S. (99)