CQUniversity Brisbane 160 Ann Street, Brisbane City, Queensland 4000

"No free speech or academic freedom. Apparently you cannot disagree with people identifying as aboriginal."

"Disagreeing with any indigenous voice is banned at this university, you must agree with absolutely everything and anything they say."

"My professors are knowledgeable and profesional. I had such good experience of studying there. If you do the postgraduate degree, and you will be able to join the class with Dr Derek Brown who is a great professor. Unfortunately, there were some receptionist staff who were working at Brisbane CQU school, were not trained well and knew nothing about the school information. They were not willing to help me to answer my questions which I was concerned. They ignored me. AS an international student, I had such a great time to study at Brisbane CQU school."

"Third class University, infact classless University. Very racist and rude staff members at the Rockhampton campus where I studied. I am not sure about the other campus but I can imagine. The international student officer used to show favouritism to some students and help them with tax lodgement and waive of their library fines. While other students had to pay tax consultants for doing their tax and pay fines to the library which was unfair. I was failed by a professor who openly challenged me when he came to know that I was going to the Ombudsman. He said that I won't win with him. I was harshly marked even though my answers were correct and was given 1/2 marks instead of 1 and I was failed for just 2 marks. He even told my fellow students and other staff members and professors in front of me during a morning tea, that I had failed in his subject. There is no value for student privacy at this University. The professors are very unprofessional here except for a handful of good teachers. One of the student couldn't pass the IELTS but was able to pass the MBA. It's hard to explain but I call this favouritism. This University is an insult to the education system and just a medium to make business. One of my professor used to make fun of my Indian nationality in front of other students but I didn't react or complain as I had to pass his subject. Even after several years I am suffering from trauma and getting counselling after studying at this University. I was diagnosed with High blood pressure after I passed from the University and taking medication till date. University is supposed to be a respectful organisation where an individual can enrich their knowledge and be a better person. This place is a money making organisation. There is no safety for students here. When I was living on campus, I used to be teased for my nationality by the residential assistants who were supposed to help and guide the students. The residential college was badly managed. I was given a room next to the toilet while the American exchange students had better rooms even though I was paying twice the fees than domestic students and also paying heavy rent at the college. The food was not tasty as they advertise. It was mostly leftovers from previous days or burgers. There was a gang of students who used to harass me at the University to help them with assignments. When I refused they started threatening to defame me and physically assault me. I mentioned it to the then student advisor who said she can't help and also strictly told me not to escalate it and ignore the gang. How could I ignore the gang when they were always present at the Uni?! The computer lab used to be used by members of this gang even though some of them were ex students. The security guards at this Uni are hopeless and don't care about the student safety. One of the above mentioned gang members was even a security guard at the University. Further most of the staff were related to each other as family members at the University so there was a lot of conflict of interest as nepotism is heavily practised at this University. There was also a soccer competition for the VC cup between the campuses in 2011 where the University wanted to win at any cost so they got in players who were no even students to play for the championship. Some of them were friends of the student advisor who got a free trip to Melbourne at the cost of the University. Some other students were deprived of the opportunity to participate in this competition especially organised for students. Thus Rockhampton campus won and badly beat all the other campus in the soccer completion. Infact they cheated the other campus and other students so you can imagine the credibility of this University. After several years they even sent an email to the alumni asking for donations as if the money they have is not enough! P.S I have already emailed the official complaints department/ Governance and still waiting for their decision."

"Do NOT study at CQU go to QUT elsewhere anywhere but CQU or other uni. Lecturers put in no time explaining or bare minimum on what is expected with assessment pieces. they have little regard for teaching and care more about research. Also the quality of the material they teach after being out in industry and working is a joke and definitely what they teach is far from what is applied in real world. I was given 2 of 20 marks because the lecturer did not like my flow chart format for code. when all his requirements were on the assessment criteria explanation was "Graphical representation of code" no explanation or examples set out as to what was expected. The effort put in does not equate to their expectation of what they get out of students. their expectation is not even well crafted due to their lack of effort in forming course structures and assessment pieces. This uni has been a nightmare to study at. The staff are rude and incompetent. I have a GPA of 6. but since I have started calling out lecturers on their general disregard for students my marks have started to decline. Funny that, the uni is a joke really. I would not even consider the courses material to be of a high quality and on par infact worse than youtube videos. If you want my advice you could get a better degree from Youtube, or plainly just study at one of the other regional universities if you must. The uni will boast that the lecturer contact hours is their biggest benefit, however it is a shame really as they don't respond to your emails and you have to hassle them constantly to get anything done or a response out of them. If you are a student at the university you are treated by the staff in a foul manner like you are disposable and not a paying customer. The university staff take an approach to students as mere peasants. Was threatened to have no help on a project for not addressing in an email staff member as "Dr" etc when i complained after not receiving a response from 3 emails wrs to laboratory space for my final year thesis project. I only chose this university due to location and unfortunately so. It has been a constant battle and the university has little consideration for those working and studying full time. It has been a stressful ordeal and while some of the lecturers at the University are great it is an odd couple that ruin it for the rest. The university also is strongly focused in bringing new students in instead of focusing on the students they currently have. Investing pointless funds into gimmicks like robots that are meant for 5 year olds. 30000$ spent on screens in a hallway that should go to better computers in labs which can handle CAD files for engineering projects and don't crash. The staff are also reigned under with copious amounts of work and seem always to be stressed out. Courses generally are thrown together with what seems a last minute effort, in comparison to other universities with more refined and practical material. The only thing i could accredit to the students going here is that they will be independent learners and strong at acquiring information as you cannot expect the information to be well presented to you by CQU. Go to one of the larger universities if you want my advice like QUT. currently a Gpa of 6 so i am not having a rant because i am a poor performer. I am having a rant because for 4 years i have had to deal with the nonsense and audacity of this university. It's been a nightmare."