Vice-Chancellor and President:Professor Peter Coaldrakewww.qut.edu.au |
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Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a leading Australian university with a strong professional emphasis in its course profile and a rapidly developing research reputation. With an annual budget of $760 million, QUT enrols 42,000 students. QUT's courses are in high demand, and graduates enjoy excellent job and career outcomes. Academic programs from bachelor degree to PhD are offered in business, creative industries, education, health, science and engineering, and law. Some 20 per cent of total enrolments are at postgraduate level, and 15 per cent of our students come from overseas. QUT is recognised for the relevance of its teaching and research to industry, the professions and the broader community. The university's "real world" positioning is also underpinned by close relationships with employers and professional bodies, which provide students with a unique balance of theory and practical skills. Our students enjoy some of the highest quality, technologically advanced social learning spaces in Australia, following a recent multimillion dollar upgrade of our libraries, student areas and research environments. Our academics are consistently recognised in national teaching awards. Over the past decade, QUT has greatly expanded its research and international profile. It hosts two Commonwealth-funded cooperative research centres (wound management and engineering asset management) and is a participant in seven others. It has established Queensland's first Confucius Institute and hosts the Australian-Canadian Prostate Cancer Research Alliance, the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, the Syngenta Centre for Sugarcane Biofuel Development, the Microsoft eResearch Centre, AusSun Research Lab and the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation. QUT's commercialisation company, bluebox, develops and manages commercial relationships between QUT and industry. Major institutes have been established in the areas of health and biomedical innovation; science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM); and creative industries. These draw draw together our own researchers and external partners, to tackle some of the major R&D challenges of our time. Based in Brisbane, QUT has three campuses: at Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove in the inner city, and at Caboolture north of the city. The Gardens Point campus will be transformed in 2012 with the opening of a new $230 million Science and Engineering Centre. At Kelvin Grove, a modern urban village development is integrating the campus with the community. QUT is a member of the Australian Technology Network of universities, along with RMIT, UTS, UniSA and Curtin.
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