UOW inNumbers
December 201901

Contents—RANKINGS02

STUDENT STATISTICS

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STUDENT EXPERIENCE

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STAFF

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RESEARCH

12FINANCE

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RANKINGSQUACQUARELLI SYMONDS (QS)WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

16212

Top 50 Under 50 Years

Equal World Ranking

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION RANKINGS29

Top 100 Under 50 Years

201-250
World Ranking

QS SUBJECT RANKINGSTOP 20TOP 200

Engineering(Mineral & Mining)

Accounting & Finance
Agriculture & Forestry
Business & Management
Studies
Chemistry
Economics & Econometrics
Engineering - Electrical &Electronic
English Language &LiteratureEnvironmental Sciences
Law and Legal Studies
Statistics & Operational
Research

TOP 100

Engineering (Civil &Structural)
Materials Science
Nursing

TOP 150

Communication & MediaStudies
Earth & Marine Sciences
Education
Geography

TOP 100Engineering
LawTOP 200

Arts & Humanities
Education
Physical SciencesWORLD UNIVERSITYIMPACT RANKING 2019

ACADEMIC RANKING OF
WORLD UNIVERSITIESEQUAL 13TH

201-300

World Rank (est. 220)

National rankings
2ND National Impact ranking
10TH Academic Ranking ofWorld Universities (GUG)

11TH QS Australian UniversityRanking

12TH QS Australian UniversityRanking in Graduate
Employability

13TH Times Higher Education
Australian Ranking

GOOD UNIVERSITIES GUIDE 2020

GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY RANKING
171-180

UOW was rated the #1 university in
NSW in the 2020 Good Universities
Guide and achieved 5 stars in thefollowing categories:

Staff Qualifications
Learner Engagement
Learning Resources
Skill development

UOW also achieved 5 stars for Student Support
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RANKINGSWorld rankings

RANKINGSQUALITY INDICATORS FOR LEARNING & TEACHING
The Federal Government’s 2019 Quality Indicators forLearning and Teaching (QILT) results reinforce UOW’sposition as one of the best universities in Australia.
FIELD OFEDUCATION

1st in NSW/ACTLearner Engagement
Learning Resources
Generic Skills

1st in Australia
Creative Arts

2nd in NSW/ACT
Quality ofEducational
Experience
Skills Development

2nd in Australia
Law and Paralegal
Studies

3rd in Australia
Engineering
Teacher Education

3rd in NSW/ACT
Teaching Quality

35,6602018 total student enrolment
1st in NSW/ACTEngineering
Teacher Education
Law & Paralegal
Studies

2nd in NSW/ACT
Health Services &Support
Psychology
Humanities,
Culture & Social
Sciences

3rd in NSW/ACTBusiness &Management
Communications

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COMMENCINGSTUDENTSCONTINUINGSTUDENTS

Total

Total

12,926

10,436
Onshore22,7342,490

17,718Offshore

Onshore5,016

Offshore

SOCIAL INCLUSION/PARTICIPATION RATE

18.25%

2.40%

Students of low
socio-economic
status*Domestic students
identifying as
Aboriginal or Torres
Strait Islander

29.35%

Students fromregional andremote areas** Domestic Undergraduates

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STUDENT STATISTICSQUALITY
INDICATORS

Our student population

STUDENT TYPEDOMESTICDOMESTIC ENROLMENTS BY REGION
INTERNATIONAL
Offshore
Onshore
8,138

Male

17,693

Female17,955

Unspecified

12* Includes domestic students studying at offshore campuses

ENROLMENTS

24,686Higher degree
research

7,7981,485

Postgraduate
coursework

Non-award
Onshore from 9 locations

332

Degreesoffered(Wollongong, South Western Sydney,
Innovation Campus, Sydney CBD,Shoalhaven, Batemans Bay, Bega,
Southern Sydney, Southern Highlands)
Offshore from Malaysia, Singapore,

Hong Kong, Dubai

UOW GLOBAL ENTERPRISES SUB-DEGREE, DIPLOMA,VOCATIONAL AND FOUNDATION ENROLMENTS*UOW College Australia enrolments

1,944

UOW College Hong Kong enrolments

5,763

UOWD College enrolments

358

UOW Malaysia KDU

5,397* These UOW Global Enterprises enrolments are excluded from other statisticalbreakdowns that appear within this publication

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9,309

Northern Sydney

359

Southern Sydney

3,748

Central Sydney

348

Other NSW

2,725

ACT283

South Western
Sydney2,034Overseas

112

Inner Western
Sydney73

Interstate498

Western Sydney

553

ONSHORE ENROLMENTS BY FACULTY

1,691

Undergraduate

Illawarra

Faculty of Business

5,204

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences

5,624

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts

5,139

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health

5,554

Faculty of Social Sciences

5,217

Non-faculty enrolments

813

Enabling enrolments delivered through UOW College603

DEGREECOMPLETIONSBY YEARUOW ALUMNI

160,000

7,711

Cumulative number of alumni

2017

7,227

2016

7,050

183

2015

6,687

2014

7,465

2013

7,196

2012

7,009

2011

7,365

2018

Different countries that ouralumni originate from

153

Different countries that arehome to our alumni
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STUDENT STATISTICSSTUDENT STATISTICS

20,042*

7,480

GENDERSTUDENT STATISTICS

Global reachStudent surveys

INTERNATIONAL ENROLMENTS BY REGION

SECTOR-WIDE SURVEYS

562

South East Asia

4,019

North Africa &Middle East

1,793

Southern &Central Asia

4,919

North East Asia

3,460

Southern &Eastern Europe

203

Sub-Saharan Africa

236

AmericasNorth West Europe

376

Oceania & Antarctica

50

83.5%
Undergraduate Teaching Quality (SES)(Compared to national average of 81.2%)

International Student Barometer (ISB)
overall satisfaction

OFFSHORE

Metropolitan &Regional Campuses

Dubai

Other

3,562

3,944

(compared to national average of 89.4%)

2,559

STUDENT MOBILITY

749

680

Domestic students
participated inoutbound studies
in 2018

International students
participated in semester
studies or visitedresearch programs at
UOW in 2018
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STUDENT EXPERIENCE

90.2%

ONSHORE

25,595

Undergraduate Quality of Educational Experience (SES)(compared to national average of 79.2%)

WHERE UOW STUDENTS STUDY

Wollongong

81.6%

Engagement &employability

Staff mix
FTE

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL OUTREACH

120,161

11,715STUDENT EXPERIENCE

Total number ofstudent hours ofcontent delivered

Number of Secondary
and Primary school
students involved

52

101

Secondary schools
engagedPrimary schools
engagedPEER-ASSISTED STUDY SESSIONS

3,535

Participant count in
PASS-supported subjects

Academic staff

1,047

1,142

Professional Services staff

1,304

1,450

Total (excluding Casual staff)

2,351

2,592

Casual staff

498

16DistinguishedProfessors

27,444

Contact hours

32.9%
Female Professors

75.3%

Professor Noel Cressie
Professor Nicholas Dixon
Professor Shi Dou
Professor Xu-Feng Huang
Professor Buddhima Indraratna
Professor Hua Liu
Professor Antoine van Oijen
Professor Bert Roberts
Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld
Professor Gordon Wallace
Professor David Adams
Professor Yoshio Bando
Professor Zaiping Guo
Professor Stuart Kaye
Professor Zhengy Jiang
Professor Xiaolin Wang

UOW domestic bachelor level graduates in full-time
employment (compared to national average of 73.4%)

83.9%

Academic staff with PhDs
1011

STAFFGRADUATE EMPLOYMENTHeadcountResearchRESEARCH IMPACTRESEARCH INCOME$69.5M

70,8612018 Higher Education Research
Data Collection (HERDC)HERDC research
income received$37.7M

Volume of material available
on Open Access

27.79

2018 Australian Government
Research Block Grant
Allocations

Research Block
Grant allocation$10.7M

HDR student completions

282.1

Australian Research Council(ARC) grants announced in 2018

ARC grant
income awarded$588K

National Health and Medical
Research Council (NHMRC)
grants announced in 2018

NHMRC grants
income awarded

Scopus publications (abstractand citation database)
COMMERCIALISATION64RESEARCH EXCELLENCE

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

UOW DISCIPLINES

11At, above or well above world standard(based on 2 and 4 digit FORs within Excellence inResearch for Australia 2018)

Number of Patents and LOAs granted(Licenses, Options, and Assignments)

MAJOR RESEARCH ENTITIES––––––––––

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM)
Early Start
Illawarra Health & Medical Research Institute (IHMRI)SMART Infrastructure Facility
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC)
12UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTES––––Molecular Horizons
Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources& Security (ANCORS)
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Per 100
academic FTE

Financial Statement
OPERATING REVENUE

SOURCE:UOW ANNUALREPORT 2017

Consolidated*

Parent^

$'000

$'000

$'000$'000

2018

2017

2018

2017

Australian Govt Grants/HECS

262,962

268,412262,962

268,412International Student Fees

284,150

275,724

169,034

153,016

Research grants

74,862

72,62874,862

72,628

Research-other38,99339,07338,99339,090Capital Grants

1,045

184

1,045

184

Other

131,686

140,887

110,502

127,097

Total Operating Revenue

793,698

796,908

657,398

660,426

Salaries

440,990416,914368,953

347,218

Non-salaries

330,602

295,020

280,606

245,493771, 592

711,934

649,559

592,711OPERATING EXPENSES

Operating result

22,106

84,974

7,839

67,715

Operating Margin

2.8%

10.66%

1.2%

10.25%

1,980,934

1,910,631

1,669,541

1,640,586

SUMMARY STATEMENT
OF FINANCIAL POSITION
Total Assets
Total Liabilities

792,237

765,648

753,931734,411

Net Assets

1,188,697

1,144,983

915,610

849,923

FINANCE^UOW figures only

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FINANCE*UOW figures including figures from UOW’s controlled entities (UOW GlobalEnterprises, UOW Pulse).

The University of Wollongong isa global leader in discovery andlearning, working to transformpeople and the world we live in.
We have built a reputation as an enterprising institution
with a multi-disciplinary approach to research, underpinned
by strong industry partnerships and personalised style.
Originally established as a provider of technical education
required for the region’s steel industry, the University now
offers a wide range of courses across five faculties.

HISTORY

1951
Established as a Division of the then
NSW University of Technology

1961
The Division became the Wollongong
College of the University of NSW

1975
Incorporated by NSW Parliament as
an independent institution

CAMPUSESFACULTIES

1982––––––––––––––––––––––

Amalgamated with Wollongong
Institute of Higher Education,
sparking a period of rapid growth

Wollongong Campus
South Western Sydney
Shoalhaven
BegaBatemans Bay
Southern Highlands
Southern Sydney
Sydney (CBD)
Innovation Campus,
Wollongong

––––
––

BusinessEngineering andInformation Sciences
Law, Humanities andthe Arts
Science, Medicineand HealthSocial Sciences

WHOLLY OWNEDSUBSIDIARY CAMPUSES––––

University of Wollongongin Dubai
UOW College Hong Kong––

UOW Malaysia KDU

1993
UOW in Dubai

2008
Innovation Campus opens

2017
UOW College Hong Kong launches
UOW Liverpool campus opens

2018
UOW Malaysia KDU

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