Creating global pathways
UQ nurtures collaboration with Singapore's top institutions to open new and exciting pathways for students and researchers. Through decades of sponsored mobility programs, joint publications, and industry partnerships, Singapore and UQ are paving the way for a connected Asia-Pacific community.
Fast facts
919
Singaporean students enrolled at UQ
204
Singapore-UQ co-publications
26
academic staff born in Singapore
10
research project collaborations
7974
alumni
7
agreements with 5 official partners
Fast facts show full year 2025 data.
Collaboration in action
- 10 collaborative research projects have been approved for $80,236 in funding in the 2021 UQ Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme. A total of 17 eligible applications were received for this round amounting to $147,067 in requested funding.
- The University of Queensland received nearly 1.3 million in New Colombo Plan (NCP) mobility grants to support 367 students across 22 projects in 13 host countries.
- A student from Singapore has topped a field of 54 talented researchers in the 2020 Asia-Pacific Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, winning the first virtual final hosted by The University of Queensland.
- As the world looks to tighten up the illegal capture of wildlife, migratory birds are being threatened by widespread and unsustainable hunting across the Asia-Pacific region.
- 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.
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Alumni
UQ has 7720 alumni living in Singapore. Alumni with significant links to Singapore include: