Snapshot of Swinburne University in 2026

• Swinburne is student-focused and aims at students being engaged in their learning; be exposed to innovative teaching and given thorough preparation for the workforce.
• Swinburne is a large and culturally diverse organisation with a desire to innovate and bring about positive change.  As a result, the institution is growing and evolving each year. 
• Swinburne has been recognised as having one of the best design schools in the world by the QS World Rankings of Universities by Subject.  The university was listed in the top 150 for the Art and Design subject area in 2025, and in the top 200 for Architecture and Built Environment – browse rankings. 
• Swinburne regularly receives a 5-star ranking for student satisfaction as seen in the rankings link.
• Swinburne offers world-class higher education in health, arts, design, business, law, science, engineering, and technology - Schools and Departments. 
• Swinburne is a university that makes Work Integrated Learning (also sometimes referred to as Industry Linked Projects) a major assessment component for students and is guaranteed in all bachelor degrees - Work Integrated Learning.
• Swinburne aims at producing job-ready students and Industry Based Learning (IBL) is offered to all eligible undergraduate students in the form of 6-12 month Professional Placements with industry partners with a long history of collaboration with Swinburne.
• Swinburne is the only Australian university with guaranteed access to the world's largest and most productive optical/infra-red telescopes — the twin Keck Observatory telescopes located near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii W.M. Keck Observatory and Parkes Radio Telescope. 
• Swinburne has a campus in Malaysia with many of the courses offered in Australia offered there – many Australian students choose to study a semester or more at the campus in Malaysia - Sarawak Campus, Malaysia. 
• Swinburne has partnerships with over 100 overseas institutions across more than 20 countries, allowing for Australian students to go for a semester abroad, or complete part of their studies at one of these institutions - Student Exchange Program. 
• Swinburne offers a number of study tours and a great number of those are specific to students studying business - Overseas Study Tours. 
• Swinburne offers an Aviation degree and part of the training in this course includes access to a Flight Simulator Laboratory with aviation simulators to immerse trainee and experienced pilots in challenging fight scenarios whilst monitoring every aspect of their performance with cutting edge measurement tools. The results allow them to predict how new cockpit technologies and procedures will work in the real world.  Swinburne offers a bachelor degree designed specifically to train students as a commercial pilot ­- Aviation.  Swinburne has partnered with Qantas to offer a new pilot pathway program that qualifies Swinburne's flight crew of the future to fly with QantasLink, the airline’s regional brand.

• Swinburne has one of the largest university Psychology Clinics in Australia, not only offering low-cost counselling, psychological assessment, and group therapy treatment, but also quality teaching and research - Psychology Clinic. 

   

For a comprehensive list of all courses offered at Swinburne, browse Courses at Swinburne