Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. 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.[50] Its main campus is located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne which is located 7.5 km from the Melbourne central business district.[51]

Swinburne University of Technology

Former names	Eastern Suburbs Technical College (1908–1913) Swinburne Technical College (1913–1992)
Motto	Factum per Litteras (Latin)
Motto in English	"Achievement through learning"[1]
Type	Public
Established	1908[2] 1992 (university status)
Chancellor	John Pollaers
Vice-Chancellor	Pascale Quester
Students	23,567[3]
Undergraduates	19,727
Postgraduates	3,096
Doctoral students	744
Other students	7,034
Location	Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	List United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network[4] Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative[5] WIPO[6][7][8] Swinburne Innovation Precinct[9] Chartered Management Institute[10] AACSB[11] Principles for Responsible Management Education（PRME）[12] Australian Leadership Index[13] AWS Educate[14] Cisco Networking Academy[15] Pitcher Partner (in association with Baker Tilly International)[16][17] Australian Business Deans Council[18][19] Global Leadership Program of Northeastern University[20] ISIRC[21] PacSurf[22] APIC[23] CIS Australia[24] Universities Australia[25] OUA[26] ASAIHL Australian Computer Society ISACA[27] Hacker Exchange [28] Astronomy Australia Limited ENoLL[29] Boeing Australia[30] Leo Cussen Centre for Law[31] AIPS[32] PRIMAL[33] Dexigner[34] Design Factory Network[35][36] Cumulus[37] IEEE[38] Engineers Australia[39] MIT Center for Information Systems Research[40] University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific[41] One Asia Foundation[42][43] CSIRO (in Silicon Valley)[44] Data61[45] Apple University Consortium SUGAR Network of Stanford University[46][47] VIVO of Cornell University[48] Talloires Network of Tufts University[49]
Mascot	Razor the Razorback Barry the Latelab Pigeon
Website	www.swinburne.edu.au

In addition to its main Hawthorn campus, Swinburne has campuses in the Melbourne metropolitan area at Wantirna and Croydon as well as a campus in Sarawak, Malaysia.[52]

In the 2016 QS World University Rankings, Swinburne was ranked 32nd for art and design, making it one of the top art and design schools in Australia and the world.[53]

In the 2019 Student Experience Survey, Swinburne recorded the eleventh highest student satisfaction rating out of all Australian universities, and the second highest student satisfaction rating out of all Victorian universities, with an overall satisfaction rating of 80.5.[54][55]

History

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 from Hawthorn College to Swinburne Technical College.[56]

It attained university status on 1 July 1992 with the passage of the Swinburne University of Technology Act.[57]

Swinburne Technical College (1940s)

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),[58] 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.[59]

In 1999, Swinburne established the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA).[60]

In 2000, the university opened a campus in Sarawak, Malaysia, as a partnership between the university and the Sarawak State Government.[61]

In 2008, it collaborated with two other universities in forming The Centre for Social Impact. In February 2011, the university opened the Advanced Technologies Centre,[62] a 22,000 square metre building of modern architectural design at its Hawthorn campus,[63] known locally as "the cheese grater building".[64]

Following a series of funding cuts announced by the Victorian Government to vocational education in May 2012,[65] Swinburne announced that it would close its Lilydale and Prahran campuses.[66] Lilydale campus officially closed on 1 July 2013.[67] The university sold its Prahran campus to the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE in 2014.[68]

In 2015, Swinburne launched its law school and became the first university in Victoria to enable students to complete their practical legal training during the final year of their law degree.[69][70]

Campuses

The Hawthorn campus is Swinburne's main campus. It hosts a range of vocational, undergraduate, and postgraduate programs.

Wantirna is a TAFE-specific campus.[71] The campus also offers courses in areas including health and community services, visual arts, business and accounting.[72]

The university's Croydon campus is a TAFE-specific campus, with a focus on training in trades such as building, carpentry, electrical and plumbing.[73]

Prahran

While Swinburne no longer operates at the Prahran campus, the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) continues to be based there.[74]

Sarawak, Malaysia

The Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus is located in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.[75]

Swinburne Online

Main article: Swinburne Online

The university's joint venture with SEEK Limited led to the creation of Swinburne Online in 2011.[76]

Academic profile

Rankings

University rankings
Swinburne University of Technology
QS World[77]	372
THE-WUR World[78]	389
ARWU World[79]	269[80]
USNWR World[81]	358
CWTS Leiden World[82]	283[83]
Australian rankings
QS National[77]	20
THE-WUR National[84]	20
ARWU National[85]	9-15
CWTS Leiden National[82]	6
ERA National[86]	15

Swinburne is internationally recognized for the output from international partnership researches.[87]

Swinburne's consistent research and innovation outputs are presented in the updated Swinburne Research Impact Magazine[88] and Swinburne is also renowned for producing favorable academic-industry partnership.[89]

Swinburne was ranked top 75 in the field of physics by the Academic Ranking of World Universities in the 2014.[90]

Swinburne was 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.[91]

Swinburne has been placed in the top 75 for civil engineering and physics in the top 100 in Shanghai Ranking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects by the 2016.[92]

The university was listed in the top 40 for the art and design subject area by the 2018 QS World Rankings of Universities by Subject.[93]

Swinburne also performed well in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2019, with Swinburne ranked in the top 200 for Education, the top 300 for Psychology and the top 500 for Business and Economics.[94] Social Sciences ranked 401-500th, Engineering and Technology ranked 176th-200th and Computer Science positioned at 251st-300th in 2020.[95]

Swinburne has won the 2019 Australian Business Award on Business Innovation [96] of the World Business Awards.[97]. Swinburne 's Faculty of Business and Law[98] (Swinburne Business School) ranked in the top 25% Economists and Institutions in Australia and 272nd Business School in the world as of October 2019.[99][100] Australia's only Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AGSE) is located in Swinburne.[101] Swinburne Business School issues the quarterly Australian Leadership Index.[102] Swinburne ranked 351-400th in the Business & Management Studies in 2019 by QS World University Rankings ,[103] 301-400th in Business and Economics in the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings[104] and Business Administration ranked 201-300th by Shanghai Ranking in 2019.[105] There were four Swinburne Master programs that ranked in top 200 worldwide by Eduniversal in 2019.[106] Swinburne's online MBA ranked in the top 35（Tier One）internationally by the CEO Magazine 2019 ranking.[107] Swinburne is affiliated with Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative[108] and accredited by AACSB[109] and Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).[110]

Swinburne College

The university also operates Swinburne College, a provider of pathway education courses which prepare students for university study. Programs offered by Swinburne College include English language, foundation studies, diploma and professional year programs.[111] Swinburne College had collaborated with Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies.[112]

Architecture

• 
  The Old Administration Building (1908)
• 
  Daryl Jackson's Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (2001)
• 
  The George Swinburne Building, also known as 'The George' (2011)

Student life

Students on campus

Swinburne Student Union (SSU)

Swinburne Student Union (SSU) is the independent student representative body of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Membership is opt-in for all students.[113]

Faculty

Member	Faculty position	Period
Ian Young	Vice-Chancellor	2003–2011
Alan Kin-Tak Lau	Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research Performance and Development
Margaret Reid	Professor at the Centre for Quantum and Optical Sciences
Lisa Given	Associate Dean, Research and Development, for the Faculty of Health, Arts and Design
Ken Friedman	Dean of the Faculty of Design
Matthew Bailes	Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Katharine Betts	Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology
Con Stough	Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
Arran Gare	Associate Professor in the Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Lawrence Pendlebury	Instructor and then Head of the Art School	1946 - 1963, 1963 - 1974
Per Mollerup	Professor of Communication Design
Jeremy Mould	Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Michael Kyrios
David Williamson	Lecturer in mechanical engineering and thermodynamics, Lecturer in social psychology	1966–1970
Karl Glazebrook	Professor of Astronomy	1966 -
James Clancy Phelan	Instructor first year fiction	2016 -
Alan Duffy	Research Fellow and Associate Professor at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
Peter Hannaford	Director of the Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Dan Golding	Senior Lecturer in Media and Communcation

Notable alumni[114][115]

• Dimity Hawkins: Co-founder of International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). ICAN won 2017 Nobel Peace Prize.
• Houman Younessi: International authority and expert on information technology and biotechnology.
• Andrew Dominik: film director. Chopper (2000), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), Killing Them Softly (2012), and the documentary One More Time with Feeling (2016).
• Karl von Möller: film director, D'art (2019), Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)
• Mark Hartley: film director, Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)[116]
• Richard Lowenstein: film director, "Autoluminescent" (documentary film on the life of Rowland S. Howard; 2011), He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001), Dogs in Space (1986), "Strikebound" (1984)
• L. Scott Pendlebury (1914–1986): landscape and portrait artist; instructor (1946–1963), head of art school (1963–1974) at Swinburne Technical College[117]
• Margaret Jane Gurney (born 1943): Australian artist (Swinburne Technical College)
• Sam Hammington: comedian who is primarily active in South Korea
• Amanda Howard: true crime writer and serial killer specialist
• David Williamson: Australian dramatist and playwright
• Gillian Armstrong: Australian director.[118]

See also

• Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
• List of universities in Australia
• National Institute of Circus Arts
• Prahran Mechanics' Institute

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External links

• University website