Central Queensland University is well ahead of the national average for graduate employment success.

Graduate Careers Council of Australia figures show that, of bachelor degree graduates who were available for full-time employment in 2004: National: 79.7% were in full-time employment within four months of completing their degrees, 12.9% were working on a part-time or casual basis while continuing to seek full-time employment and 7.4% were not working and still looking for full-time employment at the time of survey.

CQU: 85% were in full-time employment within four months of completing their degrees, 9.9% were working on a part-time or casual basis while continuing to seek full-time employment and 5.1% were not working and still looking for full-time employment at the time of survey.

Comparative starting salary data is not yet available.

Meanwhile, latest statistics prepared for the Commonwealth Government show CQU is a diverse institution.

While teenage school leavers tend to attract the most media attention, mature-age students (aged 25 and over) are in the majority among Central Queensland University's Australian students. In fact, CQU’s domestic students tend to be female, aged over 25, and studying externally or by mixed mode (8,056 are not internal versus 4,114 who are).

CQU taught a total of 22,660 students in 2004. A head-count measure shows domestic students (12,020) are only slightly more prevalent than internationals (10,640). CQU's international students have 109 different nationalities and more than four-fifths of these are based on one of the University's Australian International campuses (in metropolitan areas). Almost half of these are studying at a postgraduate level.