The University of Canberra is Australia’s Capital University, committed to Canberra, the Australian Capital, and to preparing graduates for successful careers in Australia and internationally.

It has high academic standards and a professional career-focussed approach to its undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Many of its 60,000 graduates occupy senior positions in the professions, business and government service in Australia and around the world.

University of Canberra degrees are recognised internationally, and the starting salaries received by the University’s graduates rate in the highest bracket. In 2007 the University was one of only four Australian universities to receive the maximum five-star rating in the Good Universities Guide for both for the speed and ease of getting a job and the commencing salaries of its graduates. 

Employers appreciate that the University’s dedication to preparing professionals professionally means that University of Canberra graduates are self-confident, knowledgeable, intellectually and emotionally equipped and ready to compete successfully in the real world. Therefore they are much in demand.