University of New South Wales

Overview

UNSW Sydney

UNSW Sydney (University of New South Wales or UNSW) is a public research university in Kensington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was founded in 1949 as the New South Wales University of Technology. It received its current name in 1958 and is one of the founding members of Universitas 21 and the Group of Eight. It is among the top universities that offer accounting and finance, law, engineering and technology, and mathematics worldwide.

UNSW Sydney Key Statistics

The university is structured primarily around its seven faculties, including the UNSW Faculty of Science, UNSW Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, and the UNSW Canberra at ADFA. It also has 47 schools and 125 centers and institutes. Its main campus is in Kensington, with other campuses such as the UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy and Art & Design in Paddington.

UNSW Sydney's student population is approximately 60,780, with 35,679 undergraduates and 18,226 postgraduates. It has 2,957 academic staff and 3,390 administrative staff. In addition, it has produced more than 300,000 alumni.

The other UNSW Sydney key statistics include its international academic and research partnerships with more than 200 universities around the world. It is affiliated with several organizations such as the Global Alliance of Technological Universities, PLuS Alliance, and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities.

UNSW Sydney Research

The University of New South Wales is a research-intensive institution, whose total research block grants, which is administered by the Australian Department of Education, Skills and Employment, is over AUD286 billion. With a 7,000-strong research community, its top fields of research are medicine, computer science, and biology.

UNSW Sydney research outputs have been published in prestigious journals like The New England Journal of Medicine, the Social Science Research Network, and bioRxiv. Its researchers have attended major scholarly conferences such as Web Science, IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, and the International Conference on Image Processing.

The most cited UNSW Sydney research publication is Paxinos et al.’s (1980) “AChE-stained horizontal sections of the rat brain in stereotaxic coordinates.” This was published in the Journal of Neuroscience Methods and has been cited 61,505 times.

The university’s second most cited publication is Hastie et al. (2005) “The elements of statistical learning: data mining, inference, and prediction,” which was published in The Mathematical Intelligencer and has received 27,803 citations to date.

In addition, the university’s third most cited publication is Perlmutter et al.’s (1999) “Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 high redshift supernovae,” which was featured in The Astrophysical Journal and has been cited 22,987 times so far.

The University of New South Wales has several research centers and institutes. These include the Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, Centre for Marine Science and Innovation, Centre for Eye Health, and the Centre for Ecosystem Science. It also houses the Australian Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, and the Australian Centre for Astrobiology.