Why Choose UOW?
RANKED IN TOP 2% WORLDWIDE
The 2008 Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities places the University of Wollongong in the top two per cent of universities in the world. These rankings favour research achievements including Nobel prizes, Fields medals, highly cited researchers and publication in prestigious international journals.
A FIVE-STAR EDUCATION
The 2009 Good Universities Guide confirms UOW's longstanding position as one of the country’s leading universities. UOW received five stars in six key areas—under the Guide's ranking system, only the top 20 per cent of universities can be awarded a five-star rating in any one category.
> Getting a Job
> Positive Graduate Outcomes
> Graduate Starting Salary
> Research Intensity
> Graduate Satisfaction
> Generic Skills
2009 Good Universities Guide (Universities & Private Colleges) 17th Edition
THE BEST CAREERS SERVICE IN AUSTRALIA
The University of Wollongong Career Service won the AAGE's Australian Graduate Recruitment Industry Award (AGRIA) for ‘Best Careers Service for Employers’ in 2007.
FIVE-STAR SALARIES, TEN YEARS IN A ROW
UOW has scored the maximum five-star rating for graduate salaries from the independent Good Universities Guide every year since 1999. Under the Guide’s rating system, this means that UOW graduate's salaries are consistently in the top 20% nationwide.
NUMBER ONE IN AUSTRALIA FOR TEACHING
The Australian newspaper (3 Oct 2007) ranked UOW as equal first among universities nationwide for overall performance in the Department of Education, Science and Training’s ‘2008 Learning and Teaching Performance Fund’.
UOW was recognised by top-tier (A1) rankings in all four discipline categories of the Fund:
> Business, Law & Economics
> Health
> Humanities, Arts and Education
> Science, Computing, Engineering, Architecture & Agriculture.
AWARD-WINNING TEACHERS
UOW was the only university in the country to be awarded the maximum 10 citations from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council in 2007/2008, placing us as number one in Australia. This is the third year in a row that UOW has been in the top five performers nationwide. These citations are awarded to teachers for outstanding contributions to student learning.
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