UQ St Lucia
UQ St Lucia is renowned as one of
Australia’s most attractive campuses,
and is just seven kilometres from
Brisbane’s city centre.
Bounded by the Brisbane River on three
sides, the 114-hectare site provides
a perfect study, research, and living
environment. You will enjoy the best of both
worlds: a vibrant modern 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 parklands and lakes —
encompass world-class teaching and
research facilities, including Queensland’s
largest research library and fully equipped
laboratories and lecture theatres.
UQ St Lucia
UQHERSTON
Herston is UQ’s core campus for clinical
health teaching and research.
Located alongside the Royal Brisbane
Children’s Hospital and the Royal Brisbane
and Women’s Hospital, the campus is
approximately two kilometres from the
Brisbane city centre.
Its proximity to a major hospital
benefts students and demonstrates UQ’s
commitment to working closely with health
professionals and staff alike, to deliver
innovative and contemporary research and
education programs.
Many UQ researchers also work in
specialised nodes within the hospital
complex, including the Queensland Institute
of Medical Research.
UQ Herston
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
UQGatton
UQ Gatton combines the historic rural
traditions of its Queensland Agricultural
College heritage with modern research
and teaching facilities in agriculture,
agribusiness, animals and veterinary
science.
Just over an hour’s drive west of Brisbane,
the 1068-hectare campus offers a relaxed,
friendly atmosphere and access to several
world-class facilities including:
– Centre for Advanced Animal Science
– UQ Veterinary Medical Centre
– veterinary teaching laboratories and a
Clinical Studies Centre
– native wildlife teaching and research facility
– Gatton Research Dairy
– nursery and glasshouse facilities
– Gatton e-Learning Laboratory
– cropping facilities
– pesticide wind tunnel research facility.
The campus also operates several
commercial production units in rural
technologies to support teaching, research
and hands-on training.
UQ Gatton
Lockyer Valley Shire
Enclosed on either side of the Great Dividing
Range, Gatton is a thriving town of 16,000
people in the Lockyer Valley, just fve
kilometres from UQ Gatton and 90 kilometres
west of Brisbane. Thirty minutes drive away
is Toowoomba, the regional capital of the
Darling Downs and home to 155,000 people.
Gatton offers the perfect mix of town
UQ campuses
and country living with everything from
restaurants, art galleries, shopping, hot-air
ballooning and sky diving, to birdwatching,
beautiful parks, and country markets.
Lockyer Valley Shire
UQ Ipswich
Established in 1999 on a heritage site,
UQ Ipswich provides a high-quality
teaching and learning environment in a
supportive, friendly campus community.
Built in the Arts and Crafts style, the historic
red-brick buildings are positioned on top of a
ridge to maximise the surrounding views and
have been specifcally adapted to enable the
latest technology for university teaching.
The campus offers programs in medicine,
nursing and midwifery, health science,
paramedic science and arts, and features
the latest technology in student learning
spaces, along with a suite of health clinics.
UQ Ipswich
Ipswich city
Queensland’s oldest provincial city,
Ipswich is 40 kilometres from central
Brisbane and home to more than 160,000
residents in one of Australia’s fastest
growing regions.
An alluring blend of heritage charm,
metropolitan sophistication and expansive
green spaces, the city has a wealth of
facilities — art galleries, parks and gardens,
a cultural centre, restaurants and coffee
shops, shopping malls, hospitals, a large
public library, many sporting facilities, and
gracious “Queenslander” houses.
Ipswich City Council
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UQ Guide 2014
International Postgraduate