The University of New South Wales is one of Australia’s leading “Group of Eight” universities, and based in the suburb of Kensington in Sydney. It is home to the #1 Engineering Faculty in Australia (2008 Times Higher Education Supplement Rankings), the #1 Computer Sciences School in Australia (2010 Academic Rankings of World Universities).

UNSW ranks 52nd-75th in the world for Engineering/Technology and  Computer Science (2010 Academic Rankings of World Universities).

Solar energy is a particularly active area of research at UNSW. The School of Photovoltaics boasts one of the leading solar cell research centers in the world, holding world records for single-crystalline solar cell efficiency (25%) and multi-layer solar cell efficiency (43%). Thirty-five of the senior management positions in the world’s largest photovoltaics companies are occupied by UNSW Photovoltaics graduates.