Partners in the global economy
China is one of UQ’s most significant global partners—shaping deep connections across education, research and innovation. UQ’s engagement with China spans extensive student mobility, world-class research collaboration and growing commercialisation partnerships. These strong linkages have been built over decades through trusted relationships with leading Chinese institutions, particularly the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as collaboration with influential industry and funding bodies.
Fast facts
13,104
Chinese students enrolled at UQ
1,372
China-UQ co-publications
251
academic staff born in China
28
research project collaborations
38,314
alumni in China
138
agreements with 89 official partners
Fast facts show full year 2025 data.
Collaboration in action
- Our understanding of the brain and its disorders will be boosted with the establishment of an international partnership.
- A dream to design and build social robots has taken student Anastasia Laczko around the world.
- Four University of Queensland undergraduate students are set to pursue their dreams after being named as 2020 New Colombo Plan (NCP) scholars.
- 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.
- Nearly $2.1 million in funding will go towards helping more than 500 University of Queensland undergraduate students study overseas and realise their ambitions.
- The UQ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (ATSIS) Unit in partnership with the Confucius Institute at The University of Queensland (UQ CI) supported a month long experience to China this year for three engineering students.
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Chinese culture at UQ
UQ has a long history of providing Mandarin language and Chinese culture programs, with the first Chinese classes held as early as 1967. Today, UQ students can study Mandarin Chinese through the School of Languages and Cultures, which offers more than 50 Chinese courses including Techniques in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, and Chinese Translation and Interpreting.
The Institute of Modern Languages (IML) also offers Chinese courses (Mandarin and Cantonese) for the wider Brisbane community, as well as translation and interpreting services.
Alumni
China is home to a significant UQ alumni network - UQ has 30,161 alumni living in China. Alumni with significant links to China include: