University of Wollongong

The University of Wollongong is a public research university in Wollongong, New South Wales, about 80 kilometers south of Sydney. It began in 1951 as a division of the New South Wales University of Technology, later UNSW, to serve the Illawarra steel city, and became an independent university in 1975. Its main campus sits at the foot of the Illawarra Escarpment, with other Australian sites and a long-running campus in Dubai.

The university is organized in faculties covering engineering and information sciences, science, medicine and health, business and law, and the arts, social sciences and humanities. It is best known for materials and manufacturing, civil and mining engineering, computer science, and health. Graduate students use the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials, the SMART Infrastructure Facility, and health research partnerships in the Illawarra.

Enrollment is about 33,000 students, including a large international cohort from more than 100 countries, especially across Asia. Graduate students form a substantial share on the Wollongong campus. Faculty number in the thousands. Alumni include Australian politician Stephen Jones and former MP Michael Organ, alongside engineers and public servants from the steel and mining region.

Graduate study follows the Australian pattern of coursework master's degrees and research master's and PhDs under a principal supervisor, on a calendar that typically opens in late February. Domestic research students compete for Research Training Program stipends, and the university also awards international scholarships. Students live between a compact bush-edge campus, Wollongong's beaches, and a regular train link to Sydney.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, University of Wollongong lists 2 graduate programs in education and operations research & management science: 1 master's program and 1 doctoral program. University of Wollongong holds rank 180 in the GSN Overall University Ranking.