The University of Western Australia
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is a research intensive university in Perth, Australia that was established in 1911. UWA is a member of Group of Eight Australian Universities, marking it as a highly ranked university.
The 65 hectare Crawley campus of UWA is located on the Swan River, which is about 5 km west of the Perth central business district. In 1999 the University established a UWA Albany Centre to meet rural education needs. UWA has around 20000 undergraduate students, 6000 postgraduate, and 1538 academic and 2218 administrative staffs. Annually the University receives in excess of $71 million of external research income, expends over $117 million on research and graduates over 300 higher degrees by research students, mostly doctorates.
UWA has more than 80 research institutes and centres, such as: Centre for Forensic Science, the Centre for Energy, the Centre for Water Research and the Centre for Software Practice.
Rankings:
In 2015 the University was ranked 109th worldwide by Times Higher Education. QS World University Rankings placed UWA 98th and Academic Ranking of World Universities marked the University 87th.
Faculties and Schools:
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts
· School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts
Faculty of Arts
· School of Humanities
· School of Music
· School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Business
· Business School
Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
· School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering
· School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
· School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
· School of Mathematic and Statistics
· School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering
Faculty of Law
· Law School
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
· School of Dentistry
· School of Medicine and Pharmacology
· School of Paediatrics and Child Health
· School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
· School of Population Health
· School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care
· School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
· School of Surgery
· School of Women’s and Infant’s Health
School of Indigenous Studies
Faculty of Science
· School of Agricultural and Resource Economics
· School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology
· School of Animal Biology
· School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
· School of Earth and Environment
· School of Physics
· School of Plant Biology
· School of Psychology
· School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health
Other Services:
The University of Western Australia features six main subject libraries on campus, including the architecturally recognised Reid Library building, the largest library on campus with four publicly accessible levels. All the residential colleges and buildings are closely located the campuses.
UWA Sports operates on campus with fitness centre, aquatic centre as well as watersport s complexes. In addition, the University operates off camps Sports Park containing all athletics, baseball, cricket, football, hockey, rugby, soccer and Frisbee fields.