The University’s longer-term aim is to be counted among the top 50 universities in the world by 2050, continuing to play a vital role in scholarship and discovery of global significance.

• Since 2012, UWA has appeared in the top 100 universities in Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s internationally recognised Academic Ranking of World Universities and consistently appears in the top 1% of universities as judged in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS rankings.  
• In the Good Universities Guide 2019 – the foremost non-government ranking of Australian universities – UWA scored five-star rankings in student demand, Student: Teacher Ratio and Student Retention.
• Earth and Marine Sciences,  Agriculture and Forestry, Anatomy and Physiology, Performing Arts, Mineral and Mining Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Sports-Related subjects have been ranked in the world's top 50 in 2018 according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
• UWA is ranked 1st in Australia and in the world’s top 50 for Biological Sciences, Environmental Science and Engineering, Marine/ Ocean Engineering and Agricultural Sciences by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2018.
• UWA is also ranked in the world’s top 50 for Clinical Medicine, Ecology, Public Health, Mineral and Mining Engineering and Oceanography by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities 2018.

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• UWA is a research-intensive university and one of the internationally recognised Australian Group of Eight that also comprises the University of Queensland, The University of Sydney, The University of New South Wales, Australian National University, The University of Melbourne, Monash University and The University of Adelaide. These universities are regarded as the nation’s leading research and comprehensive institutions.
• In a recent Federal Government ranking of the quality of Australian university research, ERA 2015, overall, UWA ranked higher than any other WA university in the quality of its academic research and was the only WA university ranked at or above the world average in all broad research areas assessed.
• According to Thompson-Reuters ISI Web of Knowledge, UWA has more highly cited scholars than most other Australian universities. Highly cited scholars are considered to be within the top 200 academics worldwide in their field – UWA has 6.
• UWA attracts the highest level of research income of any Western Australian university with the majority all national competitive funding to the state coming to UWA.

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• The consistently high entry (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) scores for UWA mean that the University’s undergraduate cohort is the most academically talented of any West Australian university and generally is recognised as being of the highest quality in Australia.
• In the last 60 years, students at UWA have been awarded 57 Rhodes scholarships.
• We count among our graduates:
  • former Prime Minister, the Hon Dr Bob Hawke, AC
  • His Excellency the Hon Dr Kim Beazley, AC, WA State Governor, past three WA Governors were UWA graduates
  • Federal Government minister and Attorney-General, the Hon. Christian Porter and many current and past Federal Members of Parliament
  • Nobel Prize winners Professor Barry Marshall, AC and Emeritus Professor Robin Warren, AC
  • Chancellor of the University of Western Australia, Dr Robert French, AC, former Chief Justice of the High Court
  • Academy Award winner Shaun Tan
  • former Premier, the Hon Colin Barnett as well as many State Members of Parliament and ministers
  • five of the last six Australian Ambassadors to China
• and thousands of other leaders across all fields of human endeavour and community activity.

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• The Western Australian economy is currently the powerhouse of the national economy. For 100 years, the strategic teaching and research priorities of The University of Western Australia have been aligned with the needs of the state, supporting economic and social development.
• In 2010, an independent study of the value of The University of Western Australia to the state economy – undertaken by ACIL-Tasman – estimated that in the next 40 years, UWA would contribute more than $60 billion dollars value to the Western Australian community through its research programs, educational functions, capabilities, relationships and investments.
• Behind every leading economy there is a leading university.

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