The University of Wollongong, founded in 1951, is a public university located in Wollongong, Australia. Since its inception, the University of Wollongong has become a benchmark for Australia’s new generation of universities; dynamic, innovative and prominent in national and international rankings for the quality of their teaching and research. The University of Wollongong is focused on producing quality, accessible research through highly-cited and esteemed researchers. UOW ranks 6th among the world’s universities for social and economic impact in the THE Impact rankings, which are benchmarked against the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals. The university also anticipates the nature of emergent industries and future jobs as graduates need to be ethical, mobile, technologically literate and ready for multicultural workplaces. With over 36,000 students enrolled, including approximately 7600 international students, the university is a large community that ranks among the top one percent of universities in the world.
The University of Wollongong’s main campus is set in native Australian bush and is one of the most picturesque university campuses in Australia. The Wollongong campus offers a comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The courses are offered across five faculties comprising the Faculty of Business, the Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts.