QUT has been named Entrepreneurial University of the Year for the Asia-Pacific region at the Triple E Awards in Barcelona, Spain. “QUT is an entrepreneurial university with innovation as a value and entrepreneurship as a priority,” the university’s award submission states. 

The QUT submission to the Triple E awards revealed more than 22,000 participants have engaged in extra-curricular entrepreneurial events since 2020, 14,450 undergraduates have undertaken entrepreneurship units across the university since 2018, more than 120 student startups have been created since 2020 and 18 budding entrepreneurs have received $8000 a year for three years in scholarships to pursue their entrepreneurial dream. 

Director of QUT Entrepreneurship, Associate Professor Glen Murphy said, “At QUT we recognize an entrepreneurial mindset is scalable across professions and this is why QUT has doubled down on supporting its entrepreneurial culture with programs across the student body, for staff and community.”

In 2023, QUT launched a new degree in entrepreneurship Bachelor of Business (Entrepreneurship and Innovation).