
University of Western Australia
Crawley
Australia
Details
Type
Public
Year founded
1911
Staff and students
Academic staff
1,538
Administrative staff
2,218
Overview: Rankings 2022, Acceptance Rate, Tuition Fees, and Publications
The University of Western Australia (UWA) 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 (Bob Hawke), five Justices of the High Court of Australia (including one Chief Justice, Robert French, now Chancellor), one Governor of the Reserve Bank (H. C. Coombs), various federal cabinet ministers, and seven of Western Australia's eight most recent premiers. In 2018 alumnus mathematician Akshay Venkatesh was a recipient of the Fields Medal. In 2014, the university produced its 100th Rhodes Scholar. Two members of the UWA faculty, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren won Nobel Prizes as a result of research at the university.
Bachelor degree study programs

Advanced Computer Science (Honours)
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English

Agribusiness
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English

Agribusiness and Science
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English

Agricultural Science
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English

Agricultural Science and Arts
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English

Agricultural Science and Commerce
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English

Agricultural Science and Science
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English

Agricultural Science(Honours)
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English

Arts
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology(Honours)
University of Western Australia
Bachelor degree
Australia
English
Master degree study programs

Agricultural Economics
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English

Agricultural Science
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English

Applied Finance
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English

Architecture
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English

Bioinformatics
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English

Biological Arts
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English

Biological Science
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English

Biomedical Science
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English

Biotechnology
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English

Building Information Modelling
University of Western Australia
Master degree
Australia
English
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