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Swinburne Technical College

Swinburne University of Technology
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Motto Factum per Litteras (Latin)
Motto in English
"Achievement through learning"
Type Public
Established 1908 (University status 1992)
Chancellor Graham Goldsmith
Vice-Chancellor Linda Kristjanson
Students 23,567
Undergraduates 19,727
Postgraduates 3,096
744
Other students
7,034
Location Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Campus Urban
Affiliations Universities Australia, OUA, ASAIHL, Engineers Australia,NICTA,Apple University Consortium,Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy
Website www.swinburne.edu.au
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University rankings
Swinburne University of Technology
QS World 441-450
THE-WUR World 351-400
ARWU World 401-500
USNWR World 433=
CWTS Leiden World 159
Australian rankings
QS National 22
THE-WUR National 20=
ARWU National 22-23
USNWR National 20=
CWTS Leiden National 6
ERA National 23

Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is an Australian public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1908 as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne in order to serve those without access to further education in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. Its main campus is located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne which is located 7.5 km from the Melbourne central business district.

In addition to its main Hawthorn campus, Swinburne has campuses in the Melbourne metropolitan area at Wantirna and Croydon. Swinburne also has a campus in Sarawak, Malaysia.

In 2016, Swinburne was ranked as the 61st top university in the world under 50 years old by Times Higher Education in their top 150 universities under 50 years old ranking. It is also ranked 32nd in the world for art and design in the 2016 QS World University Rankings, making it one of the top art and design schools in Australia and the world.

Swinburne University of Technology has its origins in the Eastern Suburbs Technical College, which was established in 1908 in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn by George Swinburne. In 1913, the institution changed its name to Swinburne Technical College. It attained university status on 1 July 1992 with the passage of the Swinburne University of Technology Act.

As a consequence of the Dawkins reforms to Australian higher education in the early 1990s, the university began teaching in the suburb of Prahran through a merger in 1992 with Victoria College (previously the Prahran Institute of TAFE), which stood on the site of Victoria's first training institute, the Prahran Mechanics' Institute.

In 1997, Swinburne opened a campus at Lilydale, Victoria. In 1998, it merged with the Outer East Institute of TAFE and began operating from campuses at Croydon and Wantirna.

In 1999, Swinburne established the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA).


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