Annual Report 2008 - Central Queensland University

Student Outcomes
& Statistics
CQUniversity is also rated among the best universities in Australia for graduate
salaries. The 2007 AGS survey showed the median starting salary for CQUniversity
bachelor degree graduates was $45 000 – higher than the national average of
$44 000 (Graduate Careers Australia 2007).
CQUniversity was the best choice for students seeking success and employment
outcomes, according to an independent report published in 2008. The only
university in Australia to achieve 5-star ratings in The 2009 Good Universities Guide for
both Graduate Starting Salaries (the only public university in Queensland to do so)
and Student Access, editors said that CQUniversity was “always developing new ways
to ensure its students achieve their individual goals - no matter where or how they
study or what path they followed to reach university.”
The editors of the Guide, Australia’s only Degree and University Ratings, also
awarded CQUniversity 4 or 5 star ratings - the highest outcomes possible - for
Positive Graduate Outcomes for the last nine years and, since 2000, Guide
researchers gave CQUniversity the highest rating among all public universities in
Queensland for Graduate Starting Salaries.
Graduations
The University conducted graduation ceremonies throughout the year at Brisbane,
Bundaberg, Gladstone, Hong Kong, Mackay, Melbourne, Noosa, Rockhampton,
Singapore and Sydney. A total of 5,544 Graduates were conferred with awards,
including 12 Doctoral awards.
Awards Conferred in 2008
Confer Faculty of Arts, Humanities Faculty of Business Faculty of Sciences, Doctorates TOTAL
Date and Education and Informatics Engineering and Health
31/03/2008 101 1,031 106 2 1,240
21/07/2008 231 1,550 328 10 2,119
24/11/2008 447 1,292 446 0 2,185
TOTAL 779 3,873 880 12 5,544
Honorary Awards Conferred in 2008
HONORARY AWARD OF COMPANION OF THE UNIVERSITY
Ms Kay Margaret McDuff
Councillor Lewis Brennan, MLearnMgt CQU
Mr Robin McAlpine
Mr Richard MacNevin OAM
Mr Desmond Ryan, AssocDipInfoTech CQTAFE
Ms Margaret Strelow, Dip Teach CIAE, BA UCQ, BECEd UniSA, GradDipAppHist NE,
MEd UniSA
APPOINTMENT AS EMERITUS PROFESSOR
Mr Dudley Roach, BEngSc, MEngSc USC
HONORARY MASTER OF COMMUNICATION
Mr Colin Alexander Munro, OAM, DipAg Wagga Wagga
HONORARY DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
Mr Joseph John McCorley, OAM, DipTeach Kelvin Grove, CertEd, BEd, MEdAdmin
Qld, FACE, FQIEL, FAIEL
HONORARY DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY
Dr Martand Shripad Joshi, BSc(Hons), MSc Bombay, PhD California
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