Melbourne tops liveability ranking

Melbourne has recently been named the world’s most liveable city, adding another reason for international students to come and study at Swinburne University of Technology.

The Economist Intelligence Unit, which ranks 140 cities around the world according to liveability standards, put Melbourne at the top of its annual list, beating out Vienna, Austria, and Vancouver, Canada, and ahead of other top-10 Australian cities: Sydney (sixth), Adelaide and Perth (equal eighth).

For students considering studying overseas, it is another reason to head to Swinburne.

Melbourne scored the highest possible score – 100 – in education, infrastructure and healthcare, reinforcing its credentials as one of the premier destinations for international students to study.

The city also ranked highly for its low crime level, high level of culture and comfortable weather.

Swinburne, recently named as one of the top 500 universities in the world according to the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities and the QS World University Rankings, is ideally located in Melbourne, and benefits from many of the services that contributed to the number one ranking.

Melbourne’s public transport network makes getting to Swinburne’s campuses easy: there is a train station in the middle of the Hawthorn campus, and the other campuses are well serviced by trains, trams or buses.

To find out more about studying at Swinburne, visit Swinburne’s International Students portal. For more information on the ranking, visit the Economist Intelligence Unit website.