School:University of Technology Sydney
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Overview
The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) was founded in 1988 and is located in NSW, Australia. UTS is currently ranked number one in Times Higher Education top 100 under 50 in Australia, with an overall ranking of 21 worldwide for all universities founded in the last 50 years.
UTS is quickly climbing the world rankings, its degrees and students have become world renounced and respected. To stay on top of education, UTS has acknowledged that the educational system must change and adapt due to a changing work environment. One major aspect of education that has been lacking in higher education is innovation and entrepreneurship. Because UTS is such a new university, they are less restricted by traditions and more suited to adapt to the times and provide better education for the ever-changing work environment around the world.
The university is trying to encourage both innovation and entrepreneurship, by providing a large variety of opportunities to students.
Student Entrepreneurship
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Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Innovation has been included in the course work of a few first year engineering classes for many years, through subjects called design and innovation fundamentals, Mechanical design and Engineering Communication. But in 2015, the university went a step further and created an entire course based around design thinking, Entrepreneurship and innovation all creative intelligence and innovation. Allowing students to get a bachelors, diploma or even a double degree with innovation and creative intelligence and better preparing people for an innovation based career path.
University Opportunities
During a student’s study, there are many opportunities provided by the university which range from hosting hackathons weekends, entrepreneur based societies and an incubator called the hatchery
University - Industry Collaboration
The university of technology is known as an extremely practical university and encourages students to take on internships during their university career to better understand the job market and get real life experience. Industry professionals regularly mentor students during their semester at the hatchery and help design business models for potential student run start-up companies.
Regional and Local Economic Development
One of the amazing advantages UTS has over any other university in Australia is its location. According to the Startup Ecosystem Index, Sydney has 64% of Australia’s Start-ups. But UTS is located in Ultimo which is home to…
Start-Up Companies
UTS’s constent support and enterpearnural education has assested may students develop million dollar start up companies straight out of university. Some of the companies developed and formed in the UTS environment include Cuberider, which is the first private Australian company to put satelights in space and Wine stash, which is predicted to make 3 million dollars during it’s third year.
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