University Of Sydney Faculty Of Engineering And Information Technologies
The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies is a constituent body of the University of Sydney, Australia. It was established in 1920 and is Australia's oldest engineering school and one of the most prestigious.
The school has an excellent academic reputation with its programs being ranked in 2011 by the QS World University Rankings by Subject at 21st in world for Civil Engineering and 27th in the world for Mechanical Engineering. Programs at the school are accredited by professional bodies including Engineers Australia, The Australian Institute of Project Management and the Australian Computer Society
In 2011 it had a student enrolment of 4,645 (9.5% of all students), thus making it the University's fourth-largest.
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