Swinburne University of Technology is an Australian public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. The institution was founded by the Honourable George Swinburne in 1908. It achieved university status in June 1992. In 2011 there were 18,134 students enrolled in Higher education and an estimated 13,786 students enrolled in TAFE, including nearly 7500 international students from over 100 different countries.
Swinburne has five campuses in Melbourne at Hawthorn, Prahran, Lilydale, Wantirna, Croydon – and one in Sarawak, Malaysia. Swinburne offers both vocational and higher education qualifications.
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