Welcome

Students

Flinders has a highly diverse community with many nationalities, cultures, religions and languages represented among our students.

In total Flinders has more than 3,000 international students from 85 different countries.  In total 18% of the student population.

More than 900 students are undertaking Flinders programs in China, Norway, Singapore and Malaysia.  Our online Masters students undertake courses in a range of countries, with the largest group being education students in Canada.

Research

International research collaboration is a central element of our strategy.  About 12% of our higher degree research students are from outside Australia.

Ranking

As demonstrated by the 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Flinders University is:

• in the top 10 universities in Australia,
• in the top 67 universities in the Asia-Pacific region, and 
• in the top 400 universities in the world.

Alumni

Flinders has over 52,000 alumni, 8.5% of alumni live outside Australia.  High achieving alumni include:

• Professor Terence Tao, Professor of Mathematics at UCLA and the first Australian to win the Fields Medal, the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in Mathematics.
• Dr Mamoru Mohri, Japan’s first astronaut and the Executive Director of Tokyo’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.
• Professor Rodney Brooks, Head of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT and designer of the first Mars robots in the 1990s.
• Scott Hicks filmmaker who earned seven Oscar nominations for the film Shine.

If you need help or advice you may like to try Ask Flinders on our website.