page_title: University of Western Australia
section_title: Students
hierarchical_section_title: University of Western Australia / Students
caption_attribution_description: Photograph of the UWA Chemical and Molecular Sciences building taken from the ground floor.
context_page_description: The University of Western Australia is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Perth, the state capital, with a secondary campus in Albany and various other facilities elsewhere.
  UWA was established in 1911 by an act of the Parliament of Western Australia and began teaching students two years later. It is the sixth-oldest university in Australia and was Western Australia's only university until the establishment of Murdoch University in 1973. Because of its age and reputation, UWA is classed one of the "sandstone universities", an informal designation given to the oldest university in each state. The university also belongs to several more formal groupings, including the Group of Eight and the Matariki Network of Universities. In recent years, UWA has generally been ranked either in the bottom half or just outside the world's top 100 universities, depending on the system used.
  Alumni of UWA include one Prime Minister of Australia, five Justices of the High Court of Australia, one Governor of the Reserve Bank, various federal cabinet ministers, and seven of Western Australia's eight most recent premiers.
context_section_description: UWA's student body is generally dominated by school-leavers from within Western Australia, mostly from the Perth metropolitan area. There are comparatively smaller numbers of mature-age students.  In recent years, numbers of full-fee-paying foreign students, predominantly from South East Asia, have grown as a proportion of the student population.  In 2013, the university had 4,952 international student enrolments in a total student body of under 25,000.
caption: The foyer of the multimillion-dollar Chemical and Molecular Sciences building, featuring the "double helix staircase"
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