Swinburne University of Technology

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 as well as has a campus in Sarawak, Malaysia.

In the 2016 QS World University Rankings, making it one of the top art and design schools in Australia and the world.

• Swinburne is an internationally recognised research-intensive university
• Swinburne has an international reputation for research that connects science and technology with business and the community
• The Good Universities Guide 2016 awarded Swinburne five stars for both graduate satisfaction and generic skills and four stars for teaching quality