The Melbourne School of Engineering — Facts and Figures

Rankings

  • Highest ranked Australian engineering school in the three major world university ranking surveys (Times Higher Education, QS and in the top band of Australian universities for Engineering and Technology — Shanghai Jiao Tong)
  • Highest ranked Australian engineering school and 25th in the world in 2011 for Engineering and Technology (Times Higher Education 2010)
  • Highest ranked Australian Engineering school with all Engineering and technology disciplines in the world’s top 20 (QS World University Subject Rankings 2011)
  • In the top band of Australian Universities for Engineering and Technology, and top 50–75 in the world (Shanghai Jiao Tong, 2011)

Research Higher Degree Students: 500
Graduate Students: 850
Undergraduate Students: 2,000
Staff: 280 Academic & Research Staff

Award-winning Staff

  • 14 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
  • 10 Carrick Citations for teaching
  • 9 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
  • 3 Federation Fellows
  • 2 Fellows of the Royal Society
  • 2 Laureate Professors
  • 2 Australian Prime Minister’s Prize winners

Major Research Institutes and Partnerships

  • Bionic Vision Australia
  • Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (Bell Labs)
  • Defence Sciences Institute
  • IBM Global R&D Lab
  • Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society National ICT Australia

Our international exchange partners include: Fudan University, Imperial College, McGill University, National University of Singapore, Technical University of Berlin, Technical University of Delft, Technion University of Israel, Tsinghua University, University College London, University of California Berkeley, University of Hong Kong, University of Michigan, University of Munich, University of Toronto.

We are a partner in the AOTULE network, giving our students access to leading Asia-Pacific engineering schools including: National Taiwan University, The Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Bandung Institute of Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Korean Adv. Institute of Science and Technology, University of Malaya, The University of Auckland, Nanyang Technological University, Chulalongkorn University.

Our Disciplines

Biomedical Engineering

Biomolecular Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Electronic Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Geomatics

Mechanical Engineering

Software Engineering and Computing & Information Systems

Structural Engineering

Key Research Themes

Biomedical Engineering

Information and Communication Systems

Structured Matter

Sustainable Systems and Energy