The University of Queensland

St Lucia Campus

Just 7 kilometres from Brisbane’s city centre, UQ St Lucia is renowned as one of Australia’s most attractive university campuses.

Bounded by the Brisbane River on 3 sides, the 114-hectare site provides a perfect study, research and living environment. You will enjoy the best of both worlds: a vibrant campus with the tradition of an established university.

The gracious sandstone architecture, with its hub of cloistered buildings enclosing the National Trust-registered Great Court – along with spacious parklands and lakes – encompass world-class teaching and research facilities, including Queensland’s largest research library, fully equipped laboratories and modern lecture theatres.

Gatton Campus

UQ Gatton is the University's rural campus. It combines its Queensland Agricultural College heritage with modern research and teaching facilities in agriculture, agribusiness and veterinary science.

Just over an hour’s drive west of Brisbane and 5 kilometres from the local township, the 1068-hectare Gatton campus offers a relaxed, friendly atmosphere and world-class facilities including the Queensland Animal Science Precinct, the UQ Veterinary Medical Centre, Gatton Research Dairy, nursery and glasshouse facilities, the southern hemisphere’s largest PV solar array research facility, and a pesticide wind tunnel facility.

The campus also operates several commercial plant and animal production units in rural technologies to support teaching, research and hands-on training.

Herston Campus

Just 3 kilometres from the Brisbane city centre, Herston is UQ’s core campus for clinical health teaching and research.

Sharing premises with the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, UQ Herston houses a vibrant clinical and research community that deliver innovative and contemporary research and education programs in a clinical academic environment.

Major research institutes on campus include the UQ Centre for Clinical Research, along with other key facilities such as the Oral Health Centre and the purpose-built Herston Imaging Research Facility.

UQ’s diverse off-campus facilities include:

• marine research stations at North Stradbroke (Minjerribah) and Heron Islands

• Pharmacy Australia Centre of Excellence (PACE) and Translational Research Institute at Woolloongabba

• the University Mine and the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre at Indooroopilly

• seismograph station at Mount Nebo

• veterinary science teaching and research centre at Dayboro

• the UQ Business School Downtown in the Brisbane city centre

• Institute for Social Science Research at Long Pocket

• Boyce Gardens, Toowoomba

• teaching hospitals, health centres, student accommodation and other medical research facilities throughout Brisbane, the Gold Coast and regional Queensland.

A life beyond the classroom is a big part of university, and UQ is a great place to meet new people and access a wide range of sporting and cultural activities.

Our 3 main campuses at St Lucia, Herston and Gatton boast beautiful grounds where you can relax between classes or catch up with friends. We also offer world-class sporting facilities and more than 220 social, sports, and academic clubs and societies.  UQ also hosts a calendar of events and activities such as cultural festivals, theatre, dances, concerts, movie nights, debates, barbecues, markets, and museum and art exhibitions.

Undergraduate programs

To be considered for an offer to a UQ undergraduate program, you'll need to meet all the entry requirements.

For all our undergraduate programs, you must have:

• completed a  qualification accepted by UQ  – Queensland Year 12 or an equivalent qualification
• attained the required minimum entry score
• satisfied any subject prerequisites
• attained the required level of English language requirements
• successfully completed any program-specific application requirements.

Postgraduate programs

To be considered for an offer to a UQ postgraduate program, you'll need to meet all the entry requirements.

For all our UQ postgraduate coursework programs you must have:

•           completed a previous qualification and/or professional experience
•           attained the required minimum grade point average (GPA)
•           attained the required level of English language requirements
•           met the other program-specific requirements (if applicable).

Find your program’s specific entry requirements at study.uq.edu.au/study-options/programs .

For further detailed information on UQ’s admissions requirements visit study.uq.edu.au/admissions .

UQ qualifications are highly regarded by Australian and international employers. According to the 2022 Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching Graduate Outcomes Survey, 81.0 per cent of UQ bachelor's degree graduates available for full-time work had secured full-time employment within 4 months of completing programs, comparing favourably to the national average of 78.5 per cent.

UQ leads Queensland universities in employability rankings. The QS Graduate Employability Rankings placed UQ =63rd globally, meaning UQ graduates are better placed than any other graduates in Queensland to secure employment after graduating.

The UQ student experience provides a foundation for success far beyond graduation. We offer a balance of support, structure and flexibility while preparing you to compete in today’s rapidly evolving workplace. The  UQ Employability Award  program gives you the chance to build skills that future employers value, such as leadership, teamwork, communication, problem-solving and cultural awareness.

UQ Ventures helps students to grow their entrepreneurial potential by connecting and collaborating with experts in the startup ecosystem.