Introduction to colleges at the University of Sydney

Among the many colleges of the University of Sydney, the School of Medicine and the School of Law have undoubted strength. Among them, the Law School of the University of Sydney is the only partner of Harvard Law School in the southern hemisphere. Its newly built new law school building won the 2009 Australian National Architecture Award, making its law school reach the level of Australian university law schools in terms of software and hardware. of the peak. Three of the current six Australian federal justices graduated from the University of Sydney (one from Cambridge, one from the University of Melbourne, and one from the University of Western Australia), which shows their strength. In addition to medical research, the School of Medicine at the University of Sydney also focuses on clinical and practice. Most of its teaching staff have front-line clinical experience, which makes the School of Medicine at the University of Sydney unique. The University of Sydney Law School is one of the best and highest-scoring law schools in Australia. It is also a famous law school with great influence in the world: 1 The University of Sydney Law School is the oldest law school in the southern hemisphere

2 The University of Sydney Law School is widely recognized and praised by the international academic community. The university has signed a direct entry channel with the Law Schools of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, that is, students from the University of Sydney Law School can directly transfer to the Law Department of the University of Oxford after two years of study, and eventually graduate with law degrees from the two schools. The University of Sydney has also established credit exchange agreements with many famous law schools in the United States. It is worth mentioning that the University of Sydney Law School is the only law school in Australia that recognizes credit exchange at Harvard University. 3 The University of Sydney Law School has been widely recognized and praised by the international industry. Many graduates hold important positions such as former United Nations Secretary-General Dr. H. V. Evatt, former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, former Dean of the University of Oxford Law School Michael Spence and those responsible for the preparation of human Jeni Klugman, current director of the United Nations Human Development Report Office.

4 Graduates of the University of Sydney Law School control the political lifeline of Australia. The University of Sydney is the Australian school that has trained the most Australian Prime Ministers, including the first Prime Minister Sir Edmund Barton and the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott. (Tony Abbott), also including John Winston Howard, who is known as the most successful four-term prime minister in Australian history. In the last decade, there has been the leader of all political parties in Australia (Liberal Party) John Howard, John Anderson of the National Party, Mark Latham of the Labor Party, and Bob Brown of the Green Party all graduated from the University of Sydney. The dominance of University of Sydney graduates in Australian politics is evident.

5 Graduates of the University of Sydney Law School control the economic lifeline of Australia. According to the ABC report, the University of Sydney is the institution that has produced the largest number of billionaires in Australia. The number of wealthy alumni ranks first in the world. It is also second only to Cambridge and LSE. Indeed, the University of Sydney has made a huge contribution to the Australian economy. The most typical example is Alan Moss, the former president of the Australian investment bank Macquarie Bank. When Alan Moss joined the company in 1977, Macquarie Bank was just a bank. It was an unknown small business with 50 employees. However, when he retired 30 years later, Macquarie Bank had become a first-tier investment bank with nearly 15,000 employees, ranking first in Oceania and seventh in the world. It recently invested in Korean assets. The acquisition has made Macquarie the largest overseas asset management institution in South Korea. Alan Moss's pension is 500 million yuan, the highest pension compensation in Australian history. In addition, the current governor of Australia’s central bank and the chief economists of Australia’s four major banks all graduated from the University of Sydney.

6 The Law School of the University of Sydney is the most difficult major to be admitted to the undergraduate program in Australia. In 2012, a Melbourne college entrance examination candidate, Rose Ashton-Weir, failed to enter the Law Department of the University of Sydney. His alma mater, Geelong Grammar, one of Australia's top private aristocratic schools and the alma mater of Prince Charles, brought a farce to court. Of course, the school won the case. (Including IT)

The School of Engineering at the University of Sydney is one of the best engineering schools in Australia and has the highest college entrance examination scores.

It is also a famous engineering school with great influence in the world:

1 Australia's national landmark Sydney Harbor Bridge was designed and built by John Bradfield, a graduate of the University of Sydney's Department of Engineering.

2 The core technology of WIFI, which is used every day in the world, was invented by an engineering graduate of the University of Sydney and registered as a patent in the United States. Through lawsuits, almost all of the world’s electronic giants, including Sony and Microsoft, have been charged. Billions of dollars in royalties. 3 The black box (flight recorder) that is required on every aircraft in the world was invented by David Warren, an engineering graduate from the University of Sydney.

4 A graduate of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney, a professor at Stanford University, and an ACM Fellow, Vaughan Pratt helped establish Sun Microsystems, served as the first research director, and designed the Sun Microsystems icon.

5IEEE President James Prendergas is a graduate of the Engineering Department of the University of Sydney. < /p>

7 The classic computer book "Lion's UNIX Source Code Analysis" written by John Lions, a graduate of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney, is known as the most copied book in the history of computers.

8 Rod Johnson, a computer science graduate from the University of Sydney, changed the world with two books and established Spring in Silicon Valley (it has been acquired for billions of dollars but Rod Johnson still serves as CEO) and became He is now one of the most influential top masters in software engineering in the world.

9 Neville Thiele and Richard Small, graduates of the University of Sydney's Department of Engineering, laid the foundation for modern speaker theory. The T/S parameters they invented were necessary parameters for every speaker in the world in 2012.

10 The C4.5 algorithm invented by John Ross Quinlan, a graduate and professor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sydney, was ranked first among the top ten data mining algorithms in the world by IEEE.

11 Hugh Francis Durrant-Whyte, a professor at the Department of Engineering at the University of Sydney, invented the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm, which allows robots to draw and recognize images on their own under uncertain circumstances (that is, without GPS). This achievement is generally regarded as the most important breakthrough invention in the history of robot development.

12 The University of Sydney has the second largest robot research and development center in the world, and develops robots for heavyweight institutions around the world, such as fully automatic mining systems for Rio Tinto Group and weapons for the British and American military.

13 The School of Engineering at the University of Sydney has now produced dozens of academicians of various types, such as ACM, IEEE, AAAI, FRS, etc. It is one of the universities with the most academicians in the engineering department in Australia, and school professors are also in He serves on the editorial board of many mainstream academic journals, such as Professor Albert Y. Zomaya, Fellow of IEEE, Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Computers. It is also worth mentioning that Dr. Xiao Chengshan, the first Chinese in the world to serve as the editor-in-chief of the most authoritative academic journal of the IEEE Communications Society, also received a PhD from the University of Sydney. The University of Sydney Business School is one of the best business schools in Australia and has the highest college entrance examination scores. It is also a famous business school with great influence in the world. It is located in Darlington, the inner city of Sydney, the largest financial center in Oceania, close to the heart of Sydney CBD.

At the same time, it is a member of the European Global Management Education Alliance CEMS (only one university from each country or region is selected):

1. The University of Sydney Business School is the only one to teach Master of International's Management (CEMS MIM) The Australian Business School of the program has been ranked among the top 3 management master's programs in the world by the Financial Times, a famous British financial journal, for three consecutive years. In 2013, the Business School's own Master of Management program (Master of Management) was also ranked No. 1 in Australia and top 50 in the world by the Financial Times. In 2013, the Global EMBA (Global Executive Master of Business Administration) under the Business School was ranked by the Australian Financial Review BOSS The magazine ranks it No. 1 in EMBA in Australia. At the same time, the business school is also famous for accounting, finance, international business and marketing; among them, accounting and finance majors were ranked 13th in the world and 3rd in Australia by the British QS World University Rankings in 2014.

2. Professor Peter Wolnizer of the University of Sydney Business School is the Education Director of the International Federation of Accountants and is responsible for formulating unified accounting education standards for universities around the world.

3. Former Nasdaq President Magnus Bocker once publicly praised: "The University of Sydney Business School is probably one of the absolutely leading and best business schools in the world!"

4. The dean of the University of Sydney Business School is Professor Geoffrey Garrett, who is the former dean of UCLA International College and holds academic positions in famous academic institutions such as Wharton Business School, Stanford University, Yale University, and Oxford University.

5. The University of Sydney Business School is a formal school certified by AACSB and EQUIS, and its diploma is recognized by North America and Europe.

6. The University of Sydney Business School is a member of the CEMS Business School Alliance (only one university from each country is selected, such as Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management), providing the world's number one Master of Management course.

7. The University of Sydney Business School has excellent faculty and produces highly influential world-wide academic results from time to time. For example, the core of the Variance Gamma pricing model used every day on Wall Street was developed by the University of Sydney Business School. Dilip Madan from the College and Eugene Seneta from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Sydney spent 10 years on joint research. The Variance Gamma model can replace the Brownian motion model to improve the performance of the volatility structure of the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Dilip Madan also returned to the United States with this result and became the editor-in-chief of "Mathematical Finance", the first academic journal of financial mathematics.

8. The University of Sydney Business School has signed business school exchange agreements with famous universities around the world. Students can apply for exchange to gain foreign experience. Some of these schools include Tsinghua, Peking University and Fudan in mainland China. Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Tokyo University and Keio University in Japan, Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University in Russia, HEC and EDHEC in France, Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, and the UK's London School of Economics, Warwick Business School, Manchester Business School and the University of Edinburgh.

9. The University of Sydney Business School is the only business school in Australia that arranges internships for international students in top local companies. Internship companies include Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Ernst & Young, Deloitte, P&L The internship results will be included in the credits for WaterCoopers Accounting Firm, etc.

10. The University of Sydney Business School regularly invites business executives and academic masters to give lectures at the school, such as investment bank CEOs and Nobel Prize winners, giving students the opportunity to communicate face-to-face with industry leaders. The University of Sydney Medical School is one of the best and highest-scoring medical schools in Australia. It is also a famous medical school with great influence in the world:

1. Dr Mark C Lidwell of the University of Sydney School of Medicine invented the first artificial pacemaker.

2. Dr George Kossoff, a graduate of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first B-ultrasound scanner.

3. Dr Graeme Clark, a graduate of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first cochlear implant.

4. Dr Colin Sullivan of the University of Sydney School of Medicine invented the CPAP ventilator that is found in every ambulance in every hospital in the world.

5. Dr. Jacques Miller, a graduate of the University of Sydney, discovered the function of the mammalian thymus and the identification of T cells and B cells.

6. Dr Donald Metcalf, a graduate of the University of Sydney, is the founder of modern hematology in Australia. He is an expert in cancer research and hormone research. He discovered the mechanism of how hormones control the white blood cells of the immune system to resist disease. The cancer treatments developed based on this mechanism have made bone marrow transplantation an obsolete technology and saved the lives of millions of people. He has won almost all scientific and technological awards in the world, and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize many times. The greatest discovery he made in 35 years of laboratory research was that white blood cells are controlled by hormones. His discovery led to a new method of treating cancer, and among the patients he cured was Jose Carreras, one of the three famous tenors.

7. D Gustav Nossal, a graduate of the University of Sydney, is a famous immunologist, now 70 years old. He has devoted his life to improving the health of children around the world and has raised 1.4 billion Australian dollars so far (from Microsoft President Bill Gates) for immunization programs for third world children. He was the recipient of the Australian Celebrity Medal in 2000 and has made globally recognized achievements in research on the antibody production mechanism of the human immune system.

8. Dr Brian Windeyer, a graduate of the University of Sydney, was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1969 to 1972 and a professor of radiology at the University of London.

9. Dr Gerald Lawrie, a graduate of the University of Sydney, is the world's An authority on cardiac surgery, in 2009 he successfully performed a new cardiopulmonary bypass cardiac surgery on former US First Lady Barbara Bush.

10. Dr. Virginia L. Hood, a graduate of the University of Sydney, is the president of the American Association of Physicians, the largest medical professional association in the United States.

11. Dr Michael Marmot, a graduate of the University of Sydney, is the president of the British Medical Association.

12. Dr David Hunter, a graduate of the University of Sydney, is the dean in charge of academic affairs at the Harvard School of Public Health.

13. Dr Dame Valerie Bera, a graduate of the University of Sydney, is the subject leader of epidemiology at Oxford University and the UK.

14. Dr Alan O. Trounson, a graduate of the University of Sydney, is currently the president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the world's most funded medical research institution (US$3 billion).

15. Dr Jennie Brand-Miller of the University of Sydney School of Medicine is an authority and pioneer in advocating low GI life. Her book once became the second best-selling book in the United States, the first being "Harry· Porter".

16. Bernard Katz won the Carnegie Fellowship in 1938 and went to the University of Sydney to do research with John Eccles until 1946 (when he returned to the University of London as the head of the department). During this period, both of them taught postgraduate students at the University of Sydney, which greatly Promoting the research and academic atmosphere at the University of Sydney, the two won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1963 and 1970 respectively.

17. Stephen Kuffler, a Hungarian refugee from World War II, immigrated to Sydney in 1938 to escape NAZI, and was then the Kanematsu Research Institute of the University of Sydney (now reorganized into the Sydney Cancer Center, located in the Blackburn Building on the University of Sydney campus) Director John Eccels gave him a job and became his mentor. According to the official information of the National Academy of Sciences, this was the starting point of Stephen Kuffler's career as an experimental scientist.

Under the cultivation of two Nobel Prize colleagues, Stephen Kuffler published a series of very important and pioneering neurological research results. Stephen Kuffler later personally appreciated the important influence of his colleague Bernard Katz on his research level. After the end of World War II, Bernard Katz returned to the University of London in the United Kingdom as department chair, and Stephen Kuffler immigrated to the United States to continue his academic career. In 1966, he established the Department of Neurology at Harvard University and served as department director. He later cultivated neuroscientists at Harvard He has won three Nobel Prize students. Due to his pioneering research contributions to neuroscience, Stephen Kuffler is hailed by the academic community as the Father of Modern Neuroscience. It is worth mentioning that Bernard Katz, John Eccles and Stephen Kuller, while working at the Kanematsu Institute of the University of Sydney, did not hesitate to spend time teaching postgraduate students in the Anderson Stuart Building of the University of Sydney.