Swinburne University of Technology
Locations: Melbourne Kuching Sydney Victoria Sarawak NSW
The Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1908 as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne to serve those without access to further education in Melbourne's eastern suburbs main campus is in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, 7.5 km from the Melbourne central business district.
In addition to its main Hawthorn campus, it has campuses in the Melbourne metropolitan area at Wantirna and Croydon; in Sarawak, Malaysia, and in Sydney. In the 2020 Student Experience Survey, Swinburne was ranked equal to 1st place in Victoria for the entire education experience for undergraduate students, with an overall satisfaction rate of 80 percent. Swinburne is the only academic institution in Melbourne that offers pilot training for aviation degrees.