The University of Western Australia (UWA), also known as the "University of Western Australia", is a large public comprehensive university in Australia. It was founded in 1911 and is located in Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is a five-star university. Up to now, the University of Western Australia has produced a total of 100 Rhodes Prize winners, 1 Nobel Prize winner (Barry Marshall, winner of the 2005 Physiology or Medicine Prize), and 1 Australian Prime Minister (Bob Hawke, the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia, served from 1983 to 1991).
The University of Western Australia is one of the eight and six sandstone universities in Australia. The school was originally located in the commercial center of Perth and moved to Crawley in the southern part of Perth in the 1930s. The University of Western Australia is a member of the Matariki Network of Universities (MNU), which was established in 2010 and currently has seven members, including Dartmouth College, University of T ü bingen, Uppsala University, and many other world-renowned universities with a long history. The University of Western Australia is also the youngest university in the university alliance and the only one established in the 20th century.