Our reputation is borne out by our results in research, graduate employment prospects, international rankings and other local, national and international measurements.
1.Top ranking
2.Research results
3.Student and graduate quality
4.Economic contribution
Top in rankings
The University’s longer-term aim is to be counted among the top 50 universities in the world by 2050, continuing to play a vital role in scholarship and discovery of global significance.
In August 2015, Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s internationally recognised Academic Ranking of World Universities, ranked UWA 87th in the world.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities places UWA 24th in the world for Life and Agricultural Sciences, the highest ranking in Australia.
In the Good Universities Guide 2015 – the foremost non-government ranking of Australian universities – UWA scored five star rankings in student demand, graduate starting salaries, research intensivity, and research grants.
QS rankings in 2014 placed UWA at 89th in the world.
Psychology, Education, Earth and Marine Sciences have been ranked in the world's top 40 institutions in 2014 according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The Times Higher Education Supplement in 2014/15 ranked UWA 157th in the world.
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Research results
UWA is a research-intensive university and one of the internationally recognised Australian Group of Eight that also comprises the University of Queensland, The University of Sydney, The University of New South Wales, Australian National University, The University of Melbourne, Monash University and The University of Adelaide. These universities are regarded as the nation’s leading research and comprehensive institutions.
In a recent Federal Government ranking of the quality of Australian university research, ERA 2012, UWA ranked higher than any other WA university in the quality of its academic research and was the only WA university ranked at or above the world average in all research areas.
According to Thompson-Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge, UWA has more highly cited scholars than most other Australian universities. Highly cited scholars are considered to be within the top 200 academics worldwide in their field – UWA has 11.
UWA attracts the highest level of research income of any Western Australian university with more than 70 per cent of all national competitive funding to the state coming to UWA.
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Student and graduate quality
The consistently high entry (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) scores for UWA mean that the University’s undergraduate cohort is the most academically talented of any West Australian university and generally is recognised as being of the highest quality in Australia.
In the Federal Government’s annual Graduate Destination Surveys, UWA graduates consistently rank as the most employable in Western Australia. According to the survey, our graduates are employed at a greater rate than any other university graduates in Western Australia.
In the last 60 years, students at UWA have been awarded 57 Rhodes scholarships.
We count among our graduates:
former Prime Minister, the Hon. Bob Hawke
Australian Ambassador to the United States and former Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon. Kim Beazley
Federal Government ministers, the Hon. Stephen Smith and the Hon. Christopher Evans and many current and past Federal Members of Parliament
Nobel Prize winners Professor Barry Marshall and Emeritus Professor Robin Warren
the Hon. Justice Robert French, Chief Justice of the High Court
Academy Award winner Shaun Tan
Premier, the Hon. Colin Barnett and every WA Premier since 1988 as well as many State Members of Parliament and ministers
five of the last six Australian Ambassadors to China
and thousands of other leaders across all fields of human endeavour and community activity.
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Economic contribution
The Western Australian economy is currently the powerhouse of the national economy. For 100 years, the strategic teaching and research priorities of The University of Western Australia have been aligned with the needs of the state, supporting economic and social development.
In 2010, an independent study of the value of The University of Western Australia to the state economy – undertaken by ACIL-Tasman – estimated that in the next 40 years, UWA would contribute more than $60 billion dollars value to the Western Australian community through its research programs, educational functions, capabilities, relationships and investments.
Behind every leading economy there is a leading university.
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