Benefit from international leadership
Join our tradition
The University of Melbourne has a 150-year history of leadership in research, innovation, teaching and learning. As a University of Melbourne student, you will become part of a dynamic collegial environment with a distinctive research edge. Our researchers are at the forefront of international scholarship in fields as diverse as human rights law, telecommunications and medical research.
Among our many scholars of international standing are three winners of the Nobel Prize: Professors Peter Doherty for Physiology and Medicine, and visiting Eminent Scholars Professors Sir James Mirrlees and Clive Granger for their achievements in Economic Science.
Our success has been achieved by insisting on international excellence. Our new curriculum in 2008 will build upon our leadership in research and teaching, aligning us more closely with the best of emerging European and Asian practice and North American traditions, while retaining a distinctive 'Melbourne Experience' and setting a new benchmark in Australian higher education.
Talented people from all over the world come to visit, study and work at the University of Melbourne. At last count, the University's student community of 44 000 included more than 9800 international students from over 100 countries. We invite you to join our tradition and discover why staff and students of the highest calibre are attracted to the University of Melbourne.
University of Melbourne research facts
- One of the highest-ranked research universities in Australia
- Second-largest research organisation in Australia after the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
- Over 100 research centres and institutes
- Located in Australia’s most highly concentrated precinct of medical research institutes, hospitals and private-sector knowledge-based industries, including Bio21, one of Australia’s most sophisticated medical research and biotechnological initiatives.
- A fine network of research libraries, which provide access to a wealth of electronic databases and more than three million books in over 20 languages.
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