Students
As of 2011, CQUniversity had around 20,000 students enrolled across its various campuses as well as by distance education. Of these, around 12,000 are undergraduate students, around 5,000 are postgraduate students, and around 7,000 are international students.
Statistics suggest that 44.64% of CQUniversity students come from a lower socioeconomic background, while 67.84% are classed as 'regional/remote' and close to 3% are from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background. Students with a disability also made up 4.79% of the student population. CQUniversity's Vice-Chancellor Professor Scott Bowman stated in August 2012 that CQUniversity was "proud to have the highest proportion of students from low socio-economic backgrounds and double the national average of Indigenous students."
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