Academia
The university serves as a catchment area for students in the whole region and in 2007 its student population was at 16,338 which includes 3,450 international students.
The university is well known for its medicine, marine sciences, comparative genomics, engineering and tourism. In 2001 the university took in its first medical students in its then-new School of Medicine. An undergraduate veterinary degree was added to the university for the first time in 2006. The university is also offering degrees in astronomy, including a Doctor of Astronomy degree, through on-line courses.
In 2010, James Cook University ranked in the list of the top 400 world universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
James Cook University became the seventh member of Innovative Research Universities Australia in 2007.
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