Griffith University

Name, the year of foundation of the institution

Griffith University is named in honor of the Prime Minister of the State of Queensland and the Australian Constitution author Samuel Griffith, formally founded in 1971, but his first faculty - Queensland College of Art - has been operating since the distant 1881.

Place in the rankings of the institution

The whole University is on 341th place overall in the World University Rankings in 2013 (this is the first 4% of the leading universities in the world). Griffith entered the First World Hundred in some areas. This is educational, legal and political science departments.

Among Australian universities in the authoritative international rating The Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) Griffith divides 10-16 place. But the list of the Inland University Reviews Australia (URA) university position is 27 th place on the continent.

Location, branches

Griffith is the second most important after the University of Queensland University of Queensland. Five university campuses lined up along the ocean coast of the province's largest city of Brisbane to the Gold Coast Resort. The main one among them is the campus of Nathan, which was built for the University of Queensland, but subsequently transferred to the newly formed Griffith. Here, a 10-minute drive from the center of Brisbane, studying primarily the natural sciences.

And the largest campus is located in the south of this chain, the Gold Coast, and specializes primarily on medicine.

Number of students

The Griffith University studies more than 43 thousand people

Key training areas

The faculties, schools and training centers, university students are taught in more than 300 destinations. All training programs are divided into 11 major groups:

•     Business and Management;
•     Forensics and Law;
•     Pedagogy;
•     Technology and IT;
•     Environment, Planning and Architecture;
•     Medicine (one of the priority directions for Griffith);
•     The humanities and foreign languages;
•     Music;
•     Aviation;
•     Drawing and design.

Requirements for applicants

For admission to undergraduate course required to have completed secondary education. The average rating should be not less than 4.5; otherwise it will have to undergo a preparatory program at Griffith University.

You also need to know English on the IELTS 6.5 level (that includes very hard essay writing task) no lower than estimates of 6.0 or TOEFL 79 with no evaluations below 19 (in 2015 - no less than 21 evaluations).

For Master's degree, in addition to language examinations, needed a bachelor's degree in the specialty and, importantly, two authoritative recommendations.