Location
The University of Wollongong has several campuses located on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. The main campus is in Wollongong - an hour's drive from the nearest capital city, Sydney.

The Wollongong Campus is located on the New South Wales coast, 80km south of Sydney and 3km from the centre of Wollongong. The campus combines a tranquil bushland setting with modern, state-of-the-art facilities and infrastructure that provides the perfect environment for learning. A comprehensive range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses are offered across nine faculties.

Institutional Awards & Accolades
Established in 1951, the University of Wollongong (UOW) has been recognised by Federal and State Governments and by independent analysts as being at the pinnacle of higher education in Australia. Here is a cross section of awards and achievements bestowed on the University in recent years:

UNIVERSITY OF THE YEAR - TWICE
The only university in the country to win successive Australian University of the Year Awards. The Prime Minister of Australia John Howard presented the award on the second occasion.

GOOD UNIVERSITIES GUIDE 2005
Judged by the Good Universities Guide as the country's top ranked university for the guide's two key categories of students' "educational experience" and "graduate outcomes". To date, Wollongong has been number one in the country in five successive years for the above two categories.

EMPLOYMENT PROSPECTS AND STUDENT SATISFACTION
Latest (2004) Graduate Careers Council of Australia figures reveal employment prospects for UOW graduates are more than 10 per cent higher than the national average.

The Department of Education, Science and Training has ranked UOW Number One in the category of full-time employment in a report measuring undergraduate satisfaction: Student Outcome Indicators of Australian higher education institutions, 2002 and 2003. The report also recognised UOW has the highest success at retaining students with the lowest first year drop-out rate across Australia's public universities.

RESEARCH-INTENSIVE
UOW was awarded a five-star rating for Research Intensity in the Australian Good Universities Guide 2005. The five-star ranking sees UOW join an elite group of just eight universities at the top of the rankings in this important category. UOW is the only regional university in the top group.

Wollongong's Pacesetting Achievements

	The University of Wollongong was the first Australian university to have compulsory student evaluation of teaching
	The first university to have new staff undertake teaching skills courses
	The first to make information technology skills compulsory for students (which complements the fact that the University is one of the largest sites of information technology and telecommunications research in the Southern Hemisphere)
	The first university to offer year-round teaching
	The first university to develop a business relationship with the World Bank and today remains the bank's largest partner in the nation's tertiary sector
	In 1999, Wollongong was the first western university in the world to be issued a licence from the Federal Government of the United Arab Emirates to operate an offshore campus in Dubai
	UOW is the fastest growing university in the United Arab Emirates

For more information, please visit:
http://www.uow.edu.au

THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, AUSTRALIA