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| Edited By: Nishtha Balagopal |Source: DNA |Updated: Jul 25, 2017, 07:40 AM IST
India and Australia have a strategic partnership, which essentially means that each country collaborates in addressing the challenges they face. Some of these could be shared challenges. India faces a serious challenge in the education sector that Australia with its capabilities in the higher education sector could help address. Indeed, India's higher education challenge is so acute that unless it is addressed with immediacy, her growth and developmental aspirations could suffer irreparable damage. I believe such collaboration could be the tipping point in taking India-Australia relations to the next level.
At the undergraduate level, the most popular faculties are Engineering, Business, Built Environment, Law, Art and Design and Medicine.
At the postgraduate level, Engineering, Science and IT are two of our most popular courses. UNSW through its Masters of Engineering Science offers 24 specialisations that include Photovoltaics, Water resource and waste water management, Renewable Energy in addition to the more traditional specialisations like Civil, Mechanical and Electrical. Each programme is meant to address future challenges. Our IT courses offer specialisations in BDA, AI and eCommerce systems providing students the opportunity to work with a team under the guidance of academics that lead cutting edge research in Quantum Nanosystems as well as Cyber Security challenges.
The PLuS Alliance combines the strengths of three leading research universities on three continents – Arizona State University, King's College London and the UNSW Sydney - to solve global challenges around health, social justice, sustainability, technology and innovation.
The online MBA offered by Australian Graduate school of Management (AGSM) @ UNSW Business School has been rated the fourth best in the world in The Financial Times (UK) Online MBA Rankings 2017. It is the only online MBA delivered by an Australian university to feature in the annual list, and reflects the strength of AGSM's digital strategy and investment in educational technologies to create a rigorous online learning environment.
All UNSW Canberra Masters coursework programs are open to international students, since they are all available online. Some Masters coursework programs such as the various Master of Cyber Security degrees – have a substantial 'intensive mode' component (whereby students come on campus for a week for a single intensive course).
We have a number of robust arrangements in place with several leading Indian institutions such as Jindal Global for Law, the University of Delhi, National Institute of Design, LV Prasad Eye Institute, and several others.
Rsearch is a primary focus of the university, which is a member of the Group of Eight (Go8) research-intensive universities in Australia.
Biomedical Sciences
Water, Climate, Environment and Sustainability
Next Generation Materials and Technologies
Social Policy, Government and Health Policy
ICT, Robotics and Devices
Law, Business and Economics
Fundamental and Enabling Sciences
Contemporary Humanities and Creative Arts
Defence and Security
These courses are designed for mid-career professionals who may not be, or need not be, technically proficient in cyber security, or space engineering (for example), but who in their work will need to manage such specialists, and be able to understand what those folks are talking about (why the issues they are examining in technical detail are important, etc).
Some of our key online courses from UNSW Canberra are:
Master of Cyber Security
Master of Strategy and Security
Master of Capability Management
Master of Space Operations
AGSM MBA
