UQ and the United States of America

Collaborating to change the world

UQ has strong ties with the USA, including strategic partnerships with Emory University and Washington University in St Louis, and academic links with Harvard and Stanford. In addition, backing for key projects from leading companies and organisations like Boeing, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Dow Chemical Company is empowering UQ and our US partners to create change for an increasingly connected global community.

Fast facts



645

US students enrolled at UQ


1,639

USA-UQ co-publications


104

academic staff born in the USA


318

research project collaborations


12,815

alumni in the USA


46

agreements with 33 official partners

Fast facts show full year 2023 data. 

Collaboration in action

  • MD-PhD candidate, Cody Frear, won the University of Queensland Three Minute Thesis Competition in September this year, and then went on to represent UQ at the Asia-Pacific 3MT Competition finals in October – and won – again!
  • University of Queensland scientists have provided new insights into how the tiny brains of mantis shrimp are able to make sense of a breathtaking amount of visual input.

    The study may help researchers better understand the evolution of colour vision in the animal kingdom.
  • Ten collaborative projects have been approved for $77,138 in funding in the second round of the 2019 UQ Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme.
  • A free online University of Queensland course aimed at community development workers has received a United Nations accolade.

  • An Aboriginal writer who ‘gained a second chance at life’ following treatment for a rare cancer has become the first Indigenous recipient of the Fulbright W.G. Walker scholarship.
  • Eleven collaborative research projects have been approved for $73,425 in funding in the second round of the 2018 UQ Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme. A total of 28 eligible applications were received for this round amounting to more than $220,000 in requested funding.

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Alumni

The USA is home to UQ’s largest alumni network outside Australia - UQ has 12,815 alumni living in the USA. Alumni with significant links to the USA include:

Founder of Flynn Group LP, which is the largest franchise group in the United States (Master of Literary Studies 1987)
Board Member Simon & Schuster and Member of Board of Trustees The Paley Center for Media NY. Former Chief Operating Officer, TikTok. (Bachelor of Arts Hons 2000)
Chief Financial Officer Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Bachelor of Arts 1987, Bachelor of Economics 1988)
Internationally renowned cardiologist (Bachelor of Veterinary Science 1970, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery 1975, Doctor of Medicine 1995, Doctor of Science Honoris Causa 2013)
Author (Bachelor of Arts 1966, Doctor of Letters Honoris Causa 2003)
Chair of the Board Eularis (Artifiical Intelligence)/Founder/CEO (Bachelor of Speech Therapy 1987)
Scientific Director and Advisor to the Chair, Genetics, Yale School of Medicine (Bachelor of Science Hons 2006, PhD 2011)
Chief Financial Officer, Strata Clean Energy NY (Bachelor of Science 2005, Bachelor of Economics 2007)
Four time Emmy Award-winning production designer and art director (Bachelor of Design Studies 1997)
Journalist and anchor for CNN International (Bachelor of Arts 1988)
Served as the 18th President of Indiana University from 2007 to 2021 and now President emeritus and university professor (Bachelor of Arts 1975, Honorary Doctorate 2007)
Chancellor, the University of California San Francisco (Bachelor of Medicine 1975, Honorary Doctorate of Medicine 2012)