About Swinburne

Swinburne is an innovative education institution.

We provide quality, career-oriented education to students.

Our strong technological base and links with industry are complemented by innovative research centres and strong international partnerships.

Swinburne facts:

We were established in 1908
We achieved university status in 1992
We have five campuses in Melbourne – Croydon, Hawthorn, Lilydale, Prahran, Wantirna – and one in Sarawak, East Malaysia
2010 enrolments: 16,804 (Higher Education); 15,611 (TAFE)
Staff: more than 2,500
Our alumni network numbers 81,00 world wide
We’re ranked one of the top universities in the world in both the prestigious Shanghai Jiao Tong University Academic Rankings and the QS World University Rankings
We provide 117 undergraduate and 185 postgraduate programs
We have more than 400 TAFE programs
We have over 7,500 international students from more than 100 different countries
We have 90 student exchange programs in over 20 countries
Citations of Swinburne’s research have grown by nearly 170 per cent since in the period 2005-2009, a rate of growth that outstrips the prestigious Group of Eight (GO8)
The Good Universities Guide 2011 rates us the best university in Melbourne for teaching quality and graduate satisfaction
We are a dual sector university with one of the greatest levels of student articulation from TAFE to Higher Education (25 per cent) of any Australian university

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