University of Wollongong

Setting the benchmark

The University of Wollongong (UOW) is a leading Australian university with a global reputation for excellence in education, research, and community engagement. With deep regional roots and a vibrant global network, UOW offers a personalised, inclusive experience that values every student while driving positive change locally and internationally.

Vision 2035 and Strategic Plan 2030 articulates UOW’s distinctive value as a university dedicated to empowering its people and regions through accessible education, outstanding graduate outcomes and leveraging its extensive regional and global networks.

Faculties

With three faculties – Arts, Society and Business; Engineering and Information Sciences; and Science, Medicine and Health, UOW currently offers over 300 degree programs across both undergraduate and postgraduate levels to more than 33,000 students around the world.

Research strengths

UOW research drives innovation, strengthens communities, and delivers real-world impact. With a focus on environmental sustainability, social justice and community resilience, health and wellbeing, future technologies, industries and the workforce, UOW advances knowledge and drives meaningful societal change.

A global university

UOW has a strong international focus and reputation, with over 6000 international students studying across its Australian campuses each year. 

UOW is a truly global educator, delivering world-class teaching to students in the United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong (SAR), India, China, Malaysia and Singapore.  The university has formal agreements with more than 400 overseas institutions in 45 countries spanning research collaborations, teaching collaborations, credit arrangements, articulation arrangements, study abroad and exchange programs and offshore program delivery. The University has three campuses in Sydney CBD, Liverpool and Sutherland, as well as campuses in Bega Valley, Eurobodalla, Southern Highlands and the Shoalhaven.

Facilities

With a focus on better health outcomes, early childhood research, sustainability and scientific advancement, UOW’s Wollongong campus is home to several research facilities that integrate UOW researchers, students and the community to work towards solving local and global challenges.

Already home to more than 15 organisations, UOW’s Innovation Campus is a 33-hectare research and technology precinct located in Wollongong. It encourages innovative organisations from around the world to co-locate with UOW’s leading research institutes in a collaborative campus environment.

Real world learning

UOW is recognised as a global leader in discovery and learning and embraces both technology and practical learning to maximise student success. The University works in tandem with community partners enabling learning through immersion in the workforce and it collaborates with educators, professionals, researchers and students to inform when, how and why students learn. UOW is consistently adapting to changing workforce needs and new industries, offering face to face learning, distance education and online courses.

Rankings

Throughout our 50-year history, we’ve built an international reputation for world-class research and exceptional teaching quality. Employers have ranked our graduates as some of the most career-ready in the world. We’re aiming higher every day.

• UOW is ranked in the world’s top 250 universities and equal 11th in Australia.
• UOW is ranked =41st in the world in the Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings, recognising UOW’s impact based on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
• Students rated UOW the top public university for undergraduate student experience (QILT)