The University of Queensland leads the nation in winning national teaching awards funded by the Commonwealth Government. 

The University's success in the 2007 Carrick Awards follows its success in recent years in the  Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. Results for the 2007 fund, announced December 2006, saw UQ receive the second highest amount of all universities in the nation and more than five times the amount of all other Queensland universities combined.  This follows similar success in the  2006 round announced August 2005.

Good Universities Guide

The results are reinforced by the fact that UQ has again received one of the best Australian university rankings in the 2008 edition of the Good Universities Guide (GUG), an independent consumer guide that provides ratings, rankings, comment and information about Australian higher education institutions.

UQ received the maximum five-star rating for five key GUG indicators, being 'positive graduate outcomes' (reflecting both graduate employment and continuation to further study), 'staff qualifications', 'research grants', 'research intensiveness' and 'toughness to get in' (St Lucia campus).