WELCOME
Professor Peter Høj
PRESIDENT AND VICE-CHANCELLOR
UQ SEMESTER 1
Orientation
24-28 February
Semester 1 begins
3 March
Mid-semester break
21-25 April
Semester 1 resumes 28 April
Revision period
9-13 June
Examination period
14-28 June
Semester 1 ends
28 June
Mid-year break
30 June-25 July
Graduation week
21-25 July
UQ SEMESTER 2
Mid-year Orientation 21-25 July
Semester 2 begins
28 July
Mid-semester break
29 September-6 October
Semester 2 resumes 7 October
Revision period
3-7 November
Examination period
8-22 November
Semester 2 ends
22 November
Graduation weeks
8-24 December
UQ SUMMER SEMESTERS
2013-2014
2014-2015
25 November-8 February
1 December-7 February
QUEENSLAND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
New Year’s Day
1 January
Australia Day
27 January
Good Friday
18 April
Easter Monday
21 April
Anzac Day
25 April
Queen’s Birthday
9 June
Brisbane Show Day
13 August
Labour Day
6 October
Christmas Day
25 December
Boxing Day
26 December
KEYDATES 2014
By selecting the right university, you assert a new degree
of control over your career and your life. Once you have
researched your options and chosen The University of
Queensland (UQ), you can be assured that you have
chosen very well.
Ranked in the top 100 of universities worldwide, UQ has a
strong global reputation for educating aspiring leaders who
succeed on the world stage.
As a graduate, you will join a network of more than
200,000 alumni in 160+ nations who have succeeded in
virtually every feld of endeavour – including senior judges,
government leaders, executives of global companies,
inventors of lifesaving drugs and technologies, a Nobel
Laureate, an Academy Award winner, transformational
philanthropists, Olympic champions, and many more.
Such leaders exemplify the UQ Advantage, which is
underpinned by UQ’s linked excellence in learning, research,
and the translation of research into benefts for global society.
UQ’s student experience is distinguished by opportunities
and choice: opportunity for engagement with researchers,
employers and global partners; and a choice of highly
respected academic qualifcations.
We are continually innovating to expand these
opportunities and choice. For example, we have established
Australia’s frst Offce of Undergraduate Education, we
support new scholarships and offer student grants for
overseas study exchanges, we provide volunteering and
internship opportunities, we coordinate Summer and
Winter Research programs, and we have developed a UQ
Advantage Award to recognise undergraduate students
whose achievements extend above and beyond the
strictly academic.
Through extensive networks with industry, government,
non-government agencies and other employers, UQ’s
curriculum is regularly updated to give our graduates the best
opportunity for personal and professional success.
UQ welcomes high-achieving Australian and international
scholars. Please remember that you are taking the frst steps
on a path to lifelong learning and this skill above all others will
help you re-invent your approach when the world around you
changes. In this spirit, you may later want to consider staying
on at UQ after your frst award, or returning later, to pursue
postgraduate qualifcations.
Everything we do at UQ is about enhancing the student
experience. May I wish you every success with your studies
and urge you to take advantage of all that this University has
to offer, including our vast range of social, cultural, sporting,
recreational and student support services.
STUDENTS AND STAFF
Academic staff
2836
Total students
46,863 from more than
142 countries
International students 11,389
Postgraduate
students
12,629
Top three international
source countries
China, Singapore,
Malaysia
Top three programs by
enrolment
Doctor of Philosophy,
Bachelor of Arts,
Bachelor of Engineering
Graduate job rate
81.6% (average full-time
rate for Bachelor degree);
national average 74.9%
Statistics are accurate as at December 2012.
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