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UNSW consistently scores highly in a range of national and international rankings.The university has again been ranked in the top 50 world universities, cementing its position as a global leader. UNSW came in at 47 on the UK Times Higher Education QS World University Rankings 2009, one of six Australian institutions to make the top 50.

The ranking also scored UNSW as 18th for employer satisfaction with the quality of UNSW graduates in the workplace. This success is also reflected in UNSW graduated earning the highest median starting salary (see below). Full results are available at The Times website.

UNSW is a member of The Group of Eight (Go8) - a coalition of leading Australian universities, intensive in research and comprehensive in general and professional education.

2010 Good Universities Guide

UNSW scored highly in the 2010 Good Universities Guide, being awarded the maximum five-star rating for seven key performance indicators: including research grants, research intensivity, student-staff ratio, staff qualifications, cultural diversity, graduate starting salary and positive graduate outcomes.

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Highest median starting salaries

The 2008 Australian Graduate Survey found that UNSW graduates earn the highest median starting salary in Australia (first degree Australian graduates).

Learning and Teaching Fund 2009

UNSW was recognised for its outstanding performance in learning and teaching in the Australian Government's 2009 Learning and Teaching Performance Fund. The top A1 category was awarded to UNSW for 'Excellence' in learning and teaching for undergraduate students in Discipline Group One: Science, Computing, Engineering, Architectureand Agriculture; Discipline Group Two: Business, Law, and Economics; and Discipline Group Three: Humanities, Arts and Education.
 
The Fund rewards universities that demonstrate excellence in teaching and learning for domestic undergraduates, awarding scores across discipline groupings. UNSW will receive a total of $6.9 million from the Fund, the largest allocation to any Australian university.

Postgraduate Rankings

  • The AGSM Program was ranked as the leading full time MBA in Australia and among the top 40 MBAs worldwide in the Financial Times (UK) 2009 rankings. This was the 10th consecutive year it was ranked in the top 100 MBA Programs worldwide.
  • AGSM organisational behaviour academics who teach on the AGSM MBA Program were also ranked 6th best in the world based on alumni recommendations in the FT ranking survey.
  • The MBA Program was ranked no. 1 in Australia and Asia, by Forbes in 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007. The number 1 ranking in Australia and Asia, also extends to the Executive Programs for Open Enrolment and Custom Programs, Financial Times (UK) 2002- 2006.
  • UNSW's accounting research was ranked no. 1 out of 1087 institutions worldwide in the June 2007 edition of the international journal Accounting and Finance.
Other Rankings

  • The Faculty of Law was the only faculty of a public university in Australia to receive top rating across all categories of assessment in the 2009 Good Universities Guide
  • The Commonwealth Government rated UNSW as the leading Australian university for the quality of learning and teaching of Law in both 2007 and 2008.
  • The Faculty of Engineering was ranked 1st in Australia Times Higher Education (QS 2008) and the Melbourne Institute of Advanced Studies and ranked 27th in the World (THES-QS 2008). It also has the leading Photovoltaic and Solar Energy Research Centre in the Asia-Pacific region
  • Rated No. 1 in Group of 8 Universities (2008 Learning and Teaching - Band A1)
  • AGSM MBA: 1st in Australia and 32nd in the World (Financial Times 2009)
  • AGSM MBA: 1st in Australia and 6th Best of Non-US MBAs (Forbes 07)
  • Australian School of Business: 1st in Australia (AGSM) 2009 Financial Times top 100 rankings of global full time MBA courses
  • Australian School of Business: 32nd in World (AGSM) 2009 Financial Times top 100 rankings of global full time MBA courses
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  • Employer Review: 17th in the World (3rd in Australia)
  • Technology: 27th in the World (1st in Australia)
  • Social Sciences: 28th in the World (5th in Australia)
  • Natural Sciences: 39th in the World (3rd in Australia)
  • Life Science and Biomed: 50th in the World (6th in Australia)
  • Arts and Humanities: 51st in the World (5th in Australia)

Other Facts and Figures

  • The new Lowy Cancer Research Centre, a state-of-the-art research facility, will open on campus in 2010.
  • The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will host the UNSW Confucius Centre in collaboration with Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009. In addition, new Arts degrees will be introduced in 2009, including Journalism.
  • The Faculty of Engineering is the largest Engineering School in Australia, with over 7,500 students enrolled.
  • The Faculty of Medicine has the largest undergraduate medical program in Australia and is one of the leading research-intensive medical faculties in Australia with a research budget of over $100M per annum.
  • The Australian School of Business is the largest Business School in Australia, with UNSW had the highest entry requirements for Bachelor of Commerce programs in 2008.
  • Researchers in the Faculty of Science have developed a Green Steel technology to turn plastic and disused rubber tyres into steel. This ground breaking technology boosts steel making productivity, cuts power consumption and reduces greenhouse gas emissions
  • Researchers in the Faculty of Science received over $11.5 million dollars in Discovery Research Grants for 2009.
  • Researchers in the Faculty of Science were awarded 3 Federation Fellowships in 2008, the highest in Australia.
  • Architecture students from the Faculty of Built Environment dominated the prestigious World Sustainable Buildings Congress 2008, sweeping all four finalist positions.
  • Over 1,300 new apartments and residence rooms will open on campus over the next 18 months, creating a vibrant on-campus community for our students. The first phase, New College Village, will open in January 2009.
  • The first and largest on-campus university preparation Foundation Year, celebrates its 21st anniversary in 2009.
  • The Institute of Languages was the first on-campus university language preparation centre in Australia and celebrates its 43rd anniversary in 2009.
  • The College of Fine Arts (COFA) has dominated the Samstag Scholarship with COFA graduates taking out the prize in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.
  • A COFA graduate has won the Helen Lempiere travelling Art Scholarship, one of the richest prizes for emerging contemporary visual artists in Australia. In the past 10 years it has been won eight times by COFA graduates.
  • The Archibald prize has been won by COFA graduates three times, by Wendy Sharpe, Adam Cullen and most recently by Del Kathryn Barton in 2008.
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