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UOW rated a five-star performer on international stage
January 23, 2012

Vice-Chancellor Professor Paul Wellings said the five star announcement firmly establishes UOW as one of the leading universities on the global university scene

The University of Wollongong (UOW) has been rated as a maximum ‘Five Stars’ in its first ever international benchmarking by the same organisation which determines the annual World University Rankings.

The QS Intelligence Unit’s audit said UOW’s impressive performance across its six criteria of employability, teaching, infrastructure, internationalisation, innovation and engagement helped it achieve the top Five Star status.

“This is an outstanding achievement and firmly establishes UOW as one of the leading universities on the global university scene,” the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Wellings said.

Professor Wellings said this first international benchmarking confirmed the ‘Five Star’ findings of UOW’s standing on the domestic (Australian) front by the Good Universities Guide which normally comes out in August each year.

He said the latest rating by QS demonstrated yet again UOW’s strengths in such areas as employability for its graduates, its teaching and research, its strong community engagement and overall commitment to innovation.

“One of the standout results was that of ‘engagement’ which achieved a perfect score of 50 out of 50 points – and we surpassed 95 per cent in all the other criteria,” Professor Wellings said.

The QS star rating system is a new way of looking at the strengths of universities. Universities are awarded with a rating of one to five stars with five stars being the highest rating depending on their performance within the evaluation.

A typical ‘Five Star’ university is according to QS “generally world class in a broad range of areas, enjoys a high reputation and has cutting edge facilities and internationally renowned research and teaching faculty”.