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University of Southern Queensland:
University of Southern Queensland Distance Education Centre (DEC) is the first distance education facility in the world to receive international quality accreditation to ISO9001standard. USQ is ALSO accredited with the Distance Education Training Council (DETC), an American public service organisation dedicated to identifying quality distance learning institutions. More than 300 undergraduate and postgraduate award programs of study (eg degree, diploma, certificate) are currently offered by USQ.

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Courses:

Certificate, diploma, bachelor, master degree courses in areas of Arts, Music Teaching, International Studies, Journalism, Business Studies, Commerce, Finance & Economics, Business Administration, Information Management, Tourism, IT, Safety, Health & Environment, Education, Early Childhood, Engineering, Science, Nursing, Computing, Mathematics, Applied Linguistics, TESOL...

Off-Campus Library:

The Off-Campus Library Service is available to externally enrolled students who live outside a 50 kilometre radius from Toowoomba. Students living within a 50km radius of Toowoomba who consider they have special circumstances which prevent them from visiting the Library should contact the Off-Campus Library Service to discuss their situation.

The USQ Library has extensive online and print collections available. The collections include books, journals, encyclopaedias, statistical sources and standards in print and electronic format. There is also an extensive audio visual collection of videos and compact disks.

The Off-Campus Library Service can help you by offering a:
- loans and photocopy service - use 'DocEx' to request loans and photocopies of library material to be delivered via postal or web delivery;
- borrowing information including how, what and for how long you can borrow items;
- research advice service - assists you through the maze of online databases and information sources;
- e-Books (Electronic Books) - this provides the full-text of over 20 000 books through services such as eBrary and NetLibrary; and
- online resources (online) - such as full-text journal articles and web sites recommended by your Faculty Librarian.

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Address: West Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Qld 4350, Australia
Some interested visitors submitting program inquiries to our school up to 2023-11-01 were from:

Andorra; Malaysia; and more.
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