CQU is renowned (and has been commended*) for consistent delivery of quality education to multiple locations while ensuring support for all of its students.

The University has been able to develop this reputation thanks to 35 years of leadership in distance and flexible education for Australians.

Over the past 2 decades, it has also become recognized as one of Australia's leading providers of education to international students.

In fact, around half of CQU's students (currently around 18,000) are from overseas. The University is Australia's top educator of students from India, Bangladesh, Thailand, Pakistan and more than a dozen other countries.

CQU consistently figures in Good Universities Guide 5-star ratings for graduate outcome indicators and the University is consistently above the national average for graduate job and starting salary success**.

There are 10 CQU delivery sites all the way down the Australian coast from Mackay to Melbourne and including Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sydney. The newest CQU campus has been opened in Wellington, New Zealand in 2006.

CQU's original campus at Rockhampton offers a traditional university campus experience in a natural setting, with tropical gardens, over 30 academic buildings, the main library, on-site accommodation, cafes and shops, a bookstore, sports clubs and a 25 metre swimming pool.

CQU offers more than 60 undergraduate and 30 postgraduate programs, including research opportunities. Many international students choose to study business or information technology at CQU's Australian International Campuses, although they can also enroll in psychology, health and nursing, communications, education, biomedical science or engineering, among many other programs offered at Rockhampton and the other regional campuses.

CQU hosts the Institute for Sustainable Regional Development and 4 designated research centres including the Centre for Environmental Management; the Centre for Railway Engineering; the Centre for Social Science Research; and the Centre for Plant and Water Sciences. CQU is also a participant in 3 Co-operative Research Centres (CRCs): CRC for Cast Metals Manufacturing; CRC for Railway Engineering and Technologies; and CRC for Cotton Community Catchments.

It's been 40 years since CQU began, and during that time the University has grown from a small Rockhampton-based campus to a major international operation.

* by the Australian Universities Quality Agency.

** Graduate Careers Council of Australia.