University of Tasmania

The University of Tasmania is a public university founded in 1890 in Hobart and is the fourth-oldest university in Australia. It is the only university based in Tasmania. Teaching sits at Sandy Bay and in Hobart’s waterfront precinct, with further campuses in Launceston and at Cradle Coast in Burnie, and some activity on the Australian mainland.

Faculties cover arts, law, education, business, health, and science, engineering and technology. Graduate research is tied to the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, and agricultural and environmental field stations. Antarctic and Southern Ocean science, maritime studies, and island health are the fields most associated with the university.

It enrolls on the order of 30,000 students, including a large distance-education group and international students from more than 100 countries. Graduate students are a minority of the total. Staff number more than a thousand. Alumni include Mary Donaldson, now Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.

Graduate degrees include coursework master’s, research master’s, and Ph.D. programs, with marine and medical students often based at IMAS on the Hobart waterfront or at Menzies. Research degrees follow the Australian thesis model with limited coursework. The calendar is two semesters. Hobart is a small capital; students use Sandy Bay or the city and travel to field sites around the island.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Tasmania lists 1 master's program, in earth & environmental sciences. University of Tasmania holds rank 309 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.