August 15, 2014

UOW rated as a five star university

UOW has scored five stars for student retention and grads getting a full time job in the 2015 Good Universities Guide.

Under the Guide’s ranking system, only the top 20 per cent of universities can be awarded a five-star rating in any one category.

UOW Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings said this is the fourteenth year in a row that UOW had received five stars for graduates getting a full time job.

“UOW’s curriculum is focused on equipping students with real-world skills so that they will be fully prepared for the workplace when they graduate,” he said.

“We offer engineering students the chance to design and build a formula-style race car, journalism students the opportunity to cultivate their reporting skills with UOWTV and business students the prospect of working with real businesses to solve their business challenges.”

UOW’s career development consultants also work with students secure internships at high profile companies such as Google and Facebook while they are still studying.

Professor Wellings said the fact that UOW has scored five stars for student retention highlights the University’s high quality teaching and the success of its numerous inclusion programs that help students get the most out of their university experience.

The 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, also released recently, saw UOW ranked as one of the top 200 institutions in the world (and top 8 in Australia) for Social Science, confirming its status as a world-class university in the top 2 per cent of institutions world-wide.