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Swinburne Quick Stats

  • Founded by the Honorable George Swinburne in 1908.
  • Swinburne achieved university status in June 1992.
  • A multi-campus institution with five campuses in Melbourne – Croydon, Hawthorn, Lilydale, Prahran, Wantirna – and one in Sarawak, East Malaysia.
  • We provide 117 undergraduate and 185 postgraduate programs and more than 400 TAFE programs.1
  • Swinburne has 32,4152 Equivalent Full-Time Student Load (EFTSL) students, including both higher education and TAFE sectors and more than 2600 full-time equivalent staff3.
  • Swinburne has nearly 7,500 international students4.
  • Swinburne has an alumni network of over 81,000 worldwide.
  • There are over 2500 students at Swinburne’s Sarawak campus.
  • Swinburne has one of the highest mobility rates of any university in Australia. Swinburne supported 10.6 per cent of UG students in an international work or learning experience in 2010 (national average is 8.8 per cent).5
  • Ranked one of the top 500 universities in the world by QS World University Rankings
  • Ranked one of the top 500 research universities in the world, and in the top100 for the field of physics in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (formerly known as the Shanghai Jiaotong Academic Ranking of World Universities).

1. Numbers for 2011. PG number includes coursework and research programs.
2. Provisional 2010 numbers
3. Annual Report 2010
4. Provisional 2010 numbers; this includes all international activity onshore and offshore
5. 2010 AUIDF Report