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Queensland universities

Queensland has nine of Australia's 37 universities, including some of the largest universities, the newest university, metropolitan universities and strongly regional ones.

All are engaged in both teaching and research and offer undergraduate and postgraduate studies to doctoral level, in a wide variety of fields of study.

All universities offer:

• innovative courses
• flexible teaching and learning environments
• close liaison with professional groups, business and industry
• national and international research and peer-group linkages
• partnerships with communities locally, nationally and internationally.

Queensland universities are all research institutions. Their research achievements span a wide range of fields relevant to Queensland's geography, natural environment and resources, and economic and social development - such as:

• mining
• primary industries
• rainforest, reef and coastal ecology and management
• tropical agriculture
• tourism
• biotechnology.

Our universities currently participate in 28 Cooperative Research Centres, which bring together researchers from public agencies and private industry to achieve outcomes of national economic and social significance, and are the lead partner in 12 centres.

Queensland university links

Shown below are the links to the home pages of each Queensland university. For university locations, see the universities maps.

Australian Catholic University (ACU National)

Bond University

Central Queensland University (CQ University)

Griffith University

James Cook University

Queensland University of Technology

The University of Queensland

University of Southern Queensland

University of the Sunshine Coast

Learning Support Centres

In addition, a network of over 30 community-based Learning Support Centres enables individual students, businesses and organisations, especially those in rural and remote areas, access to a wide range of educational and training technologies, information and services, to receive or deliver learning regardless of location.

Non self-accrediting higher education institutions

A further group of non self-accrediting higher education institutions operate in Queensland.

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