Alumni
Congratulations on completing your qualification with CQUniversity. Whether you finished a Certificate I or your Doctorate or anything in between, you now automatically become a member of our alumni cohort, joining over one hundred thousand of your fellow graduates located all around the world.
Your university is proud to continue to support you by providing access to career services and mentors, professional and personal development, and opportunities for you to follow your passion and expand your experience. Take advantage of our resources to fuel your continued success, we look forward to your on-going connection to your university through your alumni membership.
Make the most of your alumni community
Your connection with the university doesn’t end with the completion of your qualification. As a graduate, your knowledge, expertise and success can continue to be supported or shared to develop others. Alumni are a huge part of the life and future of our university. Welcome to the Alumni cohort, we’re really glad you joined us!
The first step to becoming an alum is your graduation ceremony. Read more about your ceremony, how to register, regalia and what to expect on the day on our Graduations page.
Looking for transcripts or replacement documents?
Keep your contact details up to date so you never miss out on news, events and valuable opportunities from your university – you don’t want to miss out.
Have you moved since graduation? Changed jobs or email address?
Maintaining your details on your alumni record ensures you receive invitations and opportunities relevant to your personal interests and professional life. Please encourage your friends and classmates to update their details and reconnect too.
Find friends
Lost touch with classmates or friends? CQUniversity can help you reconnect! Use the Find Friends service to request help to get back in contact and keep those connections alive.
Stay connected
With our alumni and students living and working all over the world, you can be a local alumni contact for graduates returning home or moving to your area. By listing your name and alumni email address with us, you'll make it easy for fellow alumni, current students and even future students to reach out, knowing you both share a connection to the university.
CQUniversity graduates can join the Industry Connect Program to mentor current students; or receive mentoring from fellow alumni.
Mentoring is a valuable way to give back. Mentors help students prepare for their careers while also strengthening their own coaching, leadership and mentoring skills. Mentees gain industry insights and build networks to support their professional growth.
Watch a short video to hear an experienced mentor share the convenience and benefits of online mentoring.
Getting started as a mentor is simple. Sign up and create your profile in just a few minutes. You can link your calendar or manually set your availability. Once you have highlighted your areas of experience and selected how to receive meeting requests (email or sms notifications), you publish your profile and you're all set. Mentees can then message you through the system to request video-conference consultations, ensuring a safe and easy experience.
If you're seeking career support or industry information, connecting with an alumni mentor could be the boost you need! Alumni mentors understand your CQU study experience, and can share their knowledge and offer perspectives on your questions. Getting started as a mentee is simple. Sign up and create your profile in just a few minutes. Highlight the areas where you're seeking to support or want to access help. The mentoring program will analyse your requests for support and suggest mentors with experience in those areas. You can then easily message the mentor(s) of your choice to set up a meeting. It's as easy as that!
Sign up to the Industry Connect Program today!
Please note: the platform is most compatible with a Google Chrome web browser.
Share your story to inspire the next generation of graduates — your experiences can make a real difference to current and future students. There are many ways to share your journey and help others get the most out of their study experience.
Give your advice to students
If you could go back and give your younger self some guidance, what would you say? While we can’t turn back time, we can pass your advice on. Complete our alumni advice form, and we’ll share your tips with students through social media and student-facing channels.
Create an alumni profile
Show students that their aspirations are within reach. Alumni profiles highlight career paths after study and inspire others to see what’s possible. Add your profile to the Our Alumni collection to showcase your journey. As a bonus, your profile will also boost your professional online presence.
Provide a testimonial
Your story can encourage and inform. Testimonials help students understand the benefits and challenges of studying at CQUniversity, why you chose your course, and what you gained from the experience. Share your story to inspire and guide future students.
Speaking opportunities
Bring your story to life in person or online. Alumni are invited to speak at orientation events, school aspiration programs, graduation ceremonies, and campus celebrations. Contact the Alumni Relations team to express your interest in becoming a guest speaker.
Just as planning a major life event requires careful consideration and thorough research, planning your career does as well. As a CQUniversity graduate, you have access to a range of free services to help you navigate your next steps.
Find your direction with Career Voyage
Career Voyage is an online career guidance system that matches your interests, preferences and education goals with types of work.
To create an account:
- Click 'Create New Client Account'
- Enter Organisation ID: 005996
- Click 'Next', then enter details.
- Create your own username and password
- Select ‘CQUni Careers’ as your adviser.
Career planning
Use our Careers Toolkit to set out your professional goals and map out a strategy for your future direction.
Talk to a mentor
Sometimes the best advice comes from someone who's been there or in a similar situation. CQU Industry Connect is an online mentoring program where you can connect with other graduates for one-on-one career conversations.
Talk to a career counsellor
All graduates can access free career counselling. Make an appointment to speak with a career consultant via MyCQU CareerHub or email the Careers Team at careers@cqu.edu.au.
Everyone has something to contribute. Here are practical ways to give back, grow your impact and stay connected with CQUniversity.
- Micro-volunteering: give 30 minutes a month to bite-sized activities that help students and strengthen our alumni community.
- Mentor a student: share real-world insights one-to-one as an industry mentor, or join as a mentee for career conversations.
- Share your voice: respond to surveys, sit on a course advisory review panel, and support university rankings by providing employer or co-researcher feedback when invited.
- Contribute thought leadership: share your expertise in our digital alumni community and alumni webinars (we regularly feature alumni speakers).
- Host student placements, traineeships and apprenticeships: build your team’s capacity and support future talent by offering Work-Integrated Learning (internships, projects or placements), as well as traineeships and apprenticeships.
- Partner in applied research: collaborate with CQUniversity researchers on industry projects that solve real-world problems and deliver impact.
- Represent CQUniversity: share your experience at international recruitment events.
- Employ students and graduates: post roles, casual gigs or projects and connect with CQU talent via our CareerHub employer portal.
- Sponsor scholarships or academic prizes: support the next generation of industry professionals through scholarships or recognise outstanding achievement through annual academic prizes via CQUniCares.
- Join the team: consider sessional staff opportunities or a career with CQUniversity through our current vacancies.
Could our current students contribute to your workplace success?
Consider the staffing needs of your workplace and industry, and develop capacity or address short-term peak workloads by offering internships, work placements, work experience projects, or hire a fellow graduate to grow your team.
Are you passionate about education, research and innovation, or did you benefit from the generosity of others during your studies? Consider a gift to reward outstanding scholars, fund scholarships or research, and help develop resources that strengthen CQUniversity.
Alumni are important
Maintaining your connection with your university brings so many rewards and opportunities. It really is a two-way street. You have so much to contribute to the betterment of the University and our student experience and there are so many ways that you can be rewarded.
How you choose to be involved is up to you – some of the opportunities to get involved and stay involved as presented below, but you might like to suggest your own ways to get involved – we’re open to your ideas and suggestions.
Our Alumni
We are proud of the achievements of our Alumni, see where they are and what they are doing
Annual CQUniversity Alumni Awards
Nominated a contact or even yourself for these annual awards.
Alumni Networks
Alumni networks can be based on location, common interest or subject, discipline or professional pursuit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Definition: alumnus (pronounced a-lum-nus),
Noun: A graduate of a particular school or university
An alumnus is another word for graduate; alumni is the plural: one alumnus, two alumni.
When you complete a CQUniversity qualification - from a Certificate 1 to a Doctorate - you automatically become a CQUniversity alumnus. Both vocational education and training and higher education graduates are members of our alumni community.
A range of benefits and initiatives are available to vocational training and degree program graduates of CQUniversity. These include free library access, career development services, alumni professional development grants, and regular opportunities to get involved through 'Be' magazine and the alumni e-newsletter.
View the benefits available and keep your details updated to hear about opportunities available to you.
Yes. As a graduate, you are able to access both catalogue and electronic databases. Visit Benefits for more information.
No! Students automatically achieve alumnus status upon completion of their qualification (Certificate 1 to Doctorate included). There are no costs associated with this life-long relationship with your university.
Update your contact details to ensure you hear about alumni events and opportunities. Information is also shared through the official CQUniversity alumni social media pages.
Digital and hard copy official academic transcripts can be ordered online. Visit the Academic Transcripts page for more information.
We love to help graduates to organise reunions or activities. Contact the Alumni Relations Team to find out how we can assist you.
You are able to advertise job vacancies for free through the University CareerHub. First-time users need to register an account.
CQUniversity uses the My eQuals platform which enables graduates (including TAFE) to access digital versions of transcripts and testamurs and share them with employers, education providers and other parties. Visit the Verification of our Qualifications webpage for more information.
This is something you can self-manage through the My eQuals platform. Visit the Verification of our Qualifications webpage for more information.
Annual Alumni Awards
Know someone who deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated for their achievements as an outstanding alumni?
30 Minutes a Month
Just 30 minutes of your time can make all the difference to a current student or fellow graduate – get involved today!
Contact Alumni
Got a question or need some information? Drop us a line and we’ll help you find what you are looking for.
