You are going to uni to get a degree and a job at the end. Of course you want to be as employable as you can be and QUT gives you that edge.
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With a history of education relevant to the needs of industry, Queensland University of Technology has evolved as one of Australia's leading universities. Today's QUT maintains a strong applied focus in courses and research. It provides an outstanding learning environment and degrees leading to top outcomes for its graduates. They become the backbone of society, the carers of the future...political and business leaders, acclaimed actors and life-changing researchers. Like Tom Ward – one of QUT's three Rhodes Scholars, who's using medicine and engineering to improve the quality of life for people. Internationally, QUT has been benchmarked against the best in the world with its business faculty achieving triple accreditation.
Student
Friendly academics, friendly staff, make you feel part of a real community.
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The opportunities for first-rate learning and research cut across a diverse range of disciplines...
Student
There's quite a lot you can do a lot online as well.
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QUT courses come with the advantage of high tech platforms for online learning and student convenience.
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QUT's handy CBD locations mean I can work and study at the same time.
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A major player in Australia's higher education sector, QUT provides a lively hub for 40,000 students at Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove in Brisbane's inner city and Caboolture to the north. Six thousand of these students come from overseas, drawn from more than 100 countries. Their lecturers have real world backgrounds from industry and education and are backed up by visiting experts from all over the world.
Vice-Chancellor
At QUT we provide our students with an outstanding learning and teaching environment; we are committed to our research and we believe everything we have to say about QUT being a university for real world.
Student
I love it to death because it gives me something more than what is in the classroom.
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A critical strength of QUT research is a multi-disciplinary approach to solving real-world problems through four major institutes. The new Institute Of Health And Biomedical Innovation is headquartered in a new $70 million building.
Engineers and cell biologists are working on technology that may mean the end of joint replacement surgery QUT scientists are coordinating Australia's first national prostate tumour tissue bank. And pioneering accident and injury research is helping to save lives.
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I am very confident that what they are teaching me is up to date and also relevant to industry.
QUT is also turning concepts into commercial reality. A world-first discovery with the potential to heal burns and wounds in less time and reduce scarring is being pursued by a QUT start-up company.
Professor Zee Upton
We want to overcome the tragedy of living with disfiguring burns for life.
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Other researchers have international backing of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to aid Africa by boosting the nutritional value of bananas.
Professor James Dale
This project will have profound, long-term effects on the nutrition of all east African nations.
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IT experts at the Information Security Institute are evaluating banking, e-health and surveillance systems to improve the network security of organisations from around the world. Other institutes have been established... one in sustainable resources – which is already delivering smart sub-tropical housing designs – and another in creative industries.
Voice-over student
My lecturers have had real world experience – they've done productions, been directors, been actors... it's good to talk to people and learn from people who actually know what they're talking about.
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As home to Australia's first creative industries faculty, QUT now leads the Asia Pacific in creative industries research. A new $70 million precinct has become Queensland's high-tech base for students studying creative fields.
A thriving business enterprise centre, located on campus, provides a real-world training ground and an outlet for their creative content.
QUT is a leader in partnering with industry and government to help benefit the community and its students. It hosts, or is a partner in several cooperative research centres. A pact between QUT and Brisbane Airport Corporation is funding top environmental research to help make air travel safer in and out of Brisbane. The Queensland government enlisted QUT's education professionals to help evaluate the state's prep year program for primary schools. And on the international front, QUT has partnered with Stanford University on a law project that aims to help share knowledge online without breaching copyright. QUT also plays a vital part in the community. A digital education project is opening up technology to youth in the aboriginal township of Cherbourg where an Indigenous education institute has also been launched by QUT and the Queensland government. Scholarships and bursaries are helping both high-achieving scholars and students in need. And Brisbane's cultural life is being enriched with the art, theatre, and high-tech spaces of QUT's cultural precincts.
Student
I actually go to the Gardens Point campus so there's always something happening there and has a little community of its own.
Student
It's a nice atmosphere; somewhere nice to come to, everyone is happy – unless it's exam time!
Student
You are always running into people and always feeling a part of the group, never really feel out and I think that's really important.
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A thriving campus life pulsates at QUT, supported by an active student body. Students, academics and researchers from home and abroad enjoy enviable education settings in Brisbane's beautiful sub-tropical climate. Outstanding learning environments, highly employable graduates and quality research that is relevant to the real world – this is QUT.
