Over the years scholarly works published under the MUP imprint have won numerous awards and prizes.
[3] The company's mandate was expressed by the tag line, "Books with Spine", which was coined by the writer Guy Rundle when Louise Adler asked him for a suitable motto.
[4] The tag line was later changed to "Australia's first university press".
[5] The Miegunyah Press is an imprint of MUP, established in 1967 under a bequest from businessman and philanthropist Russell Grimwade, with the intention of subsidising the publication of illustrated scholarly works that would otherwise be uneconomic to publish.
[6] Since 2008, the literary journal Meanjin is an editorially independent imprint of MUP.