page_title: University of Wollongong
section_title: Organisation
hierarchical_section_title: University of Wollongong / Organisation
caption_attribution_description: English: View of the Science buildings at the University of Wollongong as seen from the West.
context_page_description: The University of Wollongong is an Australian public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney. As of 2017, the university had an enrolment of more than 32,000 students, an alumni base of more than 131,859 and over 2,400 staff members.
  In 1951, a division of the New South Wales University of Technology was established in Wollongong for the conduct of diploma courses. In 1961, the Wollongong University College of the University of New South Wales was constituted and the college was officially opened in 1962. In 1975 the University of Wollongong was established as an independent institution. Since its establishment, the university has conferred more than 120,000 degrees, diplomas and certificates. Its students, originally predominantly from the local Illawarra region, are now from over 140 countries, with international students accounting for more than 30 percent of total.
  The University of Wollongong has developed into a multi-campus institution, both domestically and globally.
context_section_description: The University of Wollongong has five faculties.
  Faculty of Business
  School of Accounting, Economics & Finance
  School of Management, Operations & Marketing
  Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong
  Australian Health Services Research Institute
  SMART Infrastructure Facility
  Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences
  School of Civil, Mining & Environmental Engineering
  School of Physics
  School of Mechanical, Materials, Mechatronic and Biomedical Engineering
  School of Computing and Information Technology
  School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
  School of Mathematics & Applied Statistics
  SMART Infrastructure Facility
  Australian Steel Research Hub
  Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
  Faculty of Law, Humanities and The Arts
  School of the Arts, English and Media
  School of Humanities and Social inquiry
  School of Law
  Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
  School of Biological Sciences
  School of Chemistry
  School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
  School of Medicine
  School of Nursing
  Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute
  Faculty of Social Sciences
  School of Education
  School of Geography and Sustainable Communities
  School of Health and Society
  School of Psychology
  Early Start Research
caption: The science buildings at the Wollongong Campus
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