the central queensland university is a large ten campus university in queensland, australia. it has main campuses at bundaberg, gladstone, rockhampton and mackay. it has two learning centres at noosa and emerald. it also has campuses for international students in brisbane, the gold coast, sydney and melbourne. the university began in 1967 as the queensland institute of technology (capricornia). it was made a university in 1992 as the university of central queensland and changed the name to cquniversity australia in 2008.