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Key facts and figures
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STUDENT STATISTICS
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RANKINGS

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RANKINGS 02
STUDENT STATISTICS

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STUDENT STATISTICS 05

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STUDENT EXPERIENCE 09

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STUDENT EXPERIENCE

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RESEARCH 12

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 World rankings TOP 100 TOP 200
RANKINGS

RANKINGS
Engineering & Technology Arts & Humanities
Law Business & Economics
QUACQUARELLI SYMONDS (QS)
WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS Education
Physical Sciences

16 218 ACADEMIC RANKING OF WORLD UNIVERSITIES

Top 50 Under 50 Years World Ranking

201-300
QS SUBJECT RANKINGS World Rank (246 est.)
TOP 50 TOP 200 GLOBAL TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD 2018
Engineering Accounting & Finance
(Mineral & Mining) Agriculture & Forestry Spotlight Award. UOW is the only Australian university to be
Art & Design listed as a finalist for two consecutive years.
TOP 150 Business & Management
Education
Engineering (Civil &
Studies
Chemistry
Communication & Media
National rankings
Structural)
Materials Science
Studies 11 11
Earth & Marine Sciences
QS Australian University Times Higher Education
Engineering - Electrical &
Ranking Australian Ranking
Electronic
English Language & GOOD UNIVERSITIES GUIDE 2019
Literature
Environmental Sciences UOW was rated #1 in NSW in
Geography the 2019 Good Universities Overall Experience
Law Guide, including five star Student Retention
ratings in seven categories
Staff Qualifications
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION RANKINGS
Skills Development
Student Support
32 201-250 Learning Resources
Top 100 Under 50 Years World Ranking Learner Engagement

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 Our student population
QUALITY INDICATORS FOR LEARNING & TEACHING
RANKINGS

The Federal Government’s 2018 Quality Indicators for

Learning and Teaching (QILT) results reinforce UOW’s
position as one of the best universities in Australia.

STUDENT STATISTICS
QUALITY FIELD OF 35,969
INDICATORS EDUCATION
2017 total student enrolment

COMMENCING CONTINUING
STUDENTS STUDENTS
1st in NSW/ACT Equal 1st in 1st in NSW/ACT 13,725 22,244
Skills Development Australia Business & Total Total
Learner Engagement Teacher Management
Education Humanities
Learning Resources
Generic Skills Scale Medicine

2nd in NSW/
11,027 2,698 17,290 4,954
Onshore Offshore Onshore Offshore
ACT
3rd in NSW/ACT 3rd in Australia
Engineering Communications
Overall Quality SOCIAL INCLUSION/PARTICIPATION RATE
of Educational Health Services & Creative Arts
Experience Support Law & Paralegal
Teaching Quality Social work studies 19.2% 2.22%
Student Support Science & Students of low Domestic students
Mathematics socio-economic identifying as
Overall Satisfaction
status* Aboriginal or Torres
Good Teaching Scale
Strait Islander
Graduates in
Employment 29.1%
Students from
regional and
remote areas*

* Domestic Undergraduates
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 STUDENT TYPE DOMESTIC ENROLMENTS BY REGION

DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL GENDER Illawarra 9,699 Northern Sydney 376

Offshore Southern Sydney 3,739 Central Sydney 323

Male 17,926
7,615 Other NSW 2,695 ACT 275
20,335* Female 18,030
Onshore South Western 1,972 Overseas 129
STUDENT STATISTICS

STUDENT STATISTICS
Unspecified 13
Sydney
8,019 Inner Western 81
* Includes domestic students studying at offshore campuses Interstate 491 Sydney
Western Sydney 555
ENROLMENTS
ONSHORE ENROLMENTS BY FACULTY
24,721 1,690
Undergraduate Higher degree Faculty of Business 5,665
research Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences 5,539
7,842 Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts 5,309
Postgraduate 1,716 Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health 5,329
coursework Non-award Faculty of Social Sciences 4,911
Onshore from 9 locations Non-faculty enrolments 858
(Wollongong, South Western Sydney, Enabling enrolments delivered through UOW College 706
365 Innovation Campus, Sydney, Shoalhaven,
Degrees Batemans Bay, Bega, Southern Sydney,
offered Southern Highlands) DEGREE UOW ALUMNI
COMPLETIONS
Offshore from Malaysia, Singapore,
Hong Kong, Dubai BY YEAR 145,204
2017 7,227 Cumulative number of alumni
2016
UOW GLOBAL ENTERPRISES SUB-DEGREE, DIPLOMA, 7,050
179
VOCATIONAL AND FOUNDATION ENROLMENTS* 2015 6,687 Different countries that our
UOW College Australia enrolments 2,026 2014 7,465 alumni originate from
UOW College Hong Kong enrolments 2013
6,366 7,196
147
UOWD College enrolments 436 2012 7,009 Different countries that are
2011 7,365 home to our alumni
* These UOW Global Enterprises enrolments are excluded from other
statistical breakdowns that appear within this publication

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 Global reach Student surveys
INTERNATIONAL ENROLMENTS BY REGION SECTOR-WIDE SURVEYS

Americas 585 South East Asia 4,020

STUDENT STATISTICS

North Africa & Southern &

81%
1,897 4,647 Undergraduate Course Satisfaction (CEQ)
Middle East Central Asia
(compared to national average of 79.4%)
North East Asia 3,512 Southern &
227
Eastern Europe
North West Europe 416 64.4%
Sub-Saharan Africa 288
Oceania & Antarctica 42 Undergraduate Good Teaching Scale (CEQ)
(compared to national average of 62.4%)
The Course Experience Questionnaire is a survey

STUDENT EXPERIENCE
WHERE UOW STUDENTS STUDY
within the Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) of
all university graduates and informs the Quality
ONSHORE
Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) website.
More information can be found at qilt.edu.au
OFFSHORE
90.2%
International Student Barometer (ISB)
Wollongong Metropolitan & Dubai Other overall satisfaction
25,634 Regional Campuses 3,875 3,777 (compared to national average of 89.4%)
2,683

STUDENT MOBILITY

685 727
Domestic students International students
participated in participated in semester
outbound studies studies or visited
in 2017 research programs at
UOW in 2017

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 Engagement & Staff mix
employability FTE Headcount
Academic staff 999 1,094
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL OUTREACH
Professional Services staff 1,225 1,356

83,301 12,447 Total (excluding Casual staff) 2,224 2,450

Total number of Number of Secondary Casual staff 488

student hours of and Primary school
content delivered students involved
Professor Noel Cressie
Professor Nicholas Dixon
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10 Professor Shi Dou
STUDENT EXPERIENCE

Secondary schools Primary schools Professor Xu-Feng Huang

engaged engaged Distinguished Professor Buddhima Indraratna
Professors Professor Hua Liu
PEER-ASSISTED STUDY SESSIONS Professor Antoine van Oijen
Professor Richard Roberts
3,893 31,324 Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld
Participant count in
PASS-supported subjects
Contact hours
31.8% Professor Gordon Wallace

Female Professors

STAFF
GRADUATE EMPLOYMENT

77.5%
UOW domestic bachelor level graduates in full-time
employment (compared to national average of 72.2%)

78.9%
Academic staff with PhDs

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 Research
RESEARCH INCOME RESEARCH IMPACT

$72.3M 69,823
2017 Higher Education Research
HERDC research Data Collection (HERDC) Volume of material available
income received on Open Access

$36.5M 2017 Australian Government 27.91

Research Block Research Block Grant
Allocations HDR student completions
Grant allocation Per 100
academic FTE
$13.57M 279.66
Australian Research Council
ARC grant Scopus publications (abstract
(ARC) grants announced in 2017
income awarded and citation database)

$5.02M National Health and Medical

COMMERCIALISATION
NHMRC grants Research Council (NHMRC)
grants announced in 2017
income awarded

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
74
Startup companies supported in iAccelerate
(UOW’s innovation ecosystem accelerator)

57 UOW DISCIPLINES
At, above or well above world standard
(based on 2 and 4 digit FORs within Excellence in 9
RESEARCH

RESEARCH
Research for Australia 2015)
Number of Patents and LOAs granted
Major research entities (Licenses, Options, and Assignments)

–– Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM)

–– Early Start
–– Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute (IHMRI)
–– SMART Infrastructure Facility
–– Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
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 Financial Statement Consolidated* Parent^

$'000 $'000 $'000 $'000

SOURCE: OPERATING REVENUE 2017 2016 2017 2016
UOW ANNUAL
Australian Govt Grants/HECS 268,412 268,180 268,412 268,180
REPORT 2017
International Student Fees 275,724 247,840 153,016 127,976
Research grants 72,628 64,712 72,628 64,712
Research-other 39,073 32,480 39,090 32,480
Capital Grants 184 7,824 184 7,824
Other 140,887 109,891 127,097 99,359
Total Operating Revenue 796,908 730,927 660,426 600,531

OPERATING EXPENSES

Salaries 416,914 397,961 347,218 331,400

Non-salaries 295,020 283,306 245,493 231,195
711,934 681,267 592,711 562,595

Operating result 84,974 49,660 67,715 37,936

Operating Margin 10.66% 6.8% 10.25% 6.3%

SUMMARY STATEMENT
OF FINANCIAL POSITION

Total Assets 1,910,631 1,646,336 1,640,586 1,383,571

Total Liabilities 765,648 563,213 734,411 533,648
Net Assets 1,144,983 1,083,123 906,175 849,923

*UOW figures including figures from UOW’s controlled entities

FINANCE

FINANCE
(UOW Global Enterprises, UOW Pulse).
^UOW figures only

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The University of Wollongong is HISTORY

a global leader in discovery and 1951

Established as a Division of
1993
UOW in Dubai
learning, working to transform the then NSW University of
Technology
2015

people and the world we live in. UOW in Hong Kong

STUDENT STATISTICS
1961
2018
The Division became the
We have built a reputation as an enterprising institution In November 2018 UOW
Wollongong College of the
with a multi-disciplinary approach to research, underpinned acquired majority equity
University of NSW
by strong industry partnerships and personalised style. interest in KDU university
Originally established as a provider of technical education 1975
colleges in Kuala Lumpur
required for the region’s steel industry, the University UOW incorporated by NSW and Penang.
now offers a wide range of courses across five faculties. Parliament as an independent
institution
FACULTIES CAMPUSES
1982
–– Business –– Wollongong Campus
UOW amalgamated with
–– Engineering and –– South Western Sydney
Wollongong Institute of
Information Sciences –– Shoalhaven Higher Education, sparking a
–– Law, Humanities and –– Bega period of rapid growth
the Arts –– Batemans Bay
–– Science, Medicine –– Southern Highlands
and Health –– Southern Sydney
–– Social Sciences –– Sydney (Sydney

RESEARCH
Business School)
–– Innovation Campus,
Wollongong
WHOLLY OWNED

STAFF
SUBSIDIARY CAMPUSES
–– University of
Wollongong in Dubai

FINANCE
–– UOW College Hong Kong
–– KDU

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