Five star ratings continue for UQ

The University of Queensland has again received multiple five star ratings in an independent ranking of Australian universities released today.

The 2012 edition of The Good Universities Guide awarded UQ the maximum five-star rating for student demand, research grants and research intensivity.

UQ also earned four star rankings in the categories: getting a job, positive graduate outcomes, graduate starting salaries, student-staff ratios, staff qualifications, access by equity groups, gender balance, proportion of school leavers, and non-government earnings.

The Good Universities Guide is an independent consumer guide which provides ratings, rankings, comment and information about Australian higher education institutions.

The 2012 Guide noted that graduates of Queensland universities are still finding jobs after graduation with relative ease in comparison to universities within other Australian states and territories.

This week UQ also confirmed its status as one of the top 1 per cent of universities in the world, and was one of the top three universities in the country and the only Queensland university ranked in the world's top 100, in the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

It moved up to a world ranking of 86.

More than 1000 universities are ranked by ARWU every year and the best 500 are published on the web at http://www.shanghairanking.com/index.html

UQ has also ranked in the top one per cent of universities in the world in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2010 (rank 43rd); Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010-2011 (rank 81st); and in the QS Global rankings of universities by subjects released in July.

Find out more about studying at UQ at the UQ Open Day on Wednesday, August 24 from 2.30pm to 6.30pm at the Ipswich campus, or Sunday, August 21 at the Gatton campus from 9am to 3pm. Details: www.uq.edu.au/openday/

Media: Jan King 0413 601 248