The University of Queensland (UQ) was established through a 1909 Act of the Queensland Parliament and officially founded on 16 April 1910, as the state’s first university. Teaching began in 1911 in Old Government House, Brisbane. UQ has three Brisbane campuses, St Lucia, Herston and Dutton Park, and a regional campus at Gatton.
It is organised into five faculties: Business, Economics and Law; Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology; Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences; Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; and Science, alongside university and faculty research institutes. UQ’s key statistics record 60,193 students in 2025, 39.7% of them international, and 8,710 full-time equivalent staff. Professor Deborah Terry AC has been Vice-Chancellor and President since August 2020.