UTS is in the centre of Sydney, in the heart of its cultural and creative hub.
You’ll be studying at a campus that’s been designed to help you develop the skills
you’ll need for your future career.
UTS has been re-created to provide you with a "campus of the future” designed to enhance
your experience at University and help shape the way you'll be learning.
Our physical and virtual University environment has been designed to create an intellectually
and socially vibrant educational experience with the objective of providing you with creative
and inspired learning focusing on developing the knowledge, skills, capabilities and attributes
you’ll need in your future career.
At UTS, we focus on preparing you for professional practice, this means that, as well as learning
the knowledge and skills needed in your field of study, you’ll also be acquiring other
attributes important for you to succeed professionally.
You may find that learning at UTS happens in ways that are different from what you’ve
previously experienced.
You'll be coming to class to collaborate with other students. You might be investigating
issues or solving real world problems and, to make the most of your class time. You'll
often be asked to prepare before you come. You'll have some lectures and you'll also
participate in many other forms of learning such as debates, simulations and groupwork
projects.
Some of these will be face-to-face, and others, online.
You'll discover new spaces in our campus which have been designed to enable this new kind
of learning like collaborative theatres, groupwork spaces, interactive high-tech pods, and learning
commons where you can study alone or with others.
You'll find that at university learning isn’t just about collecting facts. More and more
it’s about being able to respond to tasks and challenges and finding solutions as well
as learning to think critically.
It's about working with others, as well as working with technology.
And about learning how to seek out the best quality and most up-to-date information from
a huge range of sources.
You'll learn how to navigate the evolving digital world.
You'll find that at UTS it's not all exams and essays there are different ways that you'll
be assessed.
You'll discover that success is also about making personal and professional networks
at UTS that will last you a lifetime.
The more you get involved in what UTS has to offer the more you'll benefit.
And there's a lot to get involved in.
You'll need to be working right from the start towards getting that great job, so it's worth
knowing a little bit more about what your future employer is looking for.
The grades you achieve over the course of your degree rank only 4th on the list of what
employers are looking for.
The number one thing employers look for are strong interpersonal skills and the ability
to communicate.
They want to see that you can speak and write well and relate to others.
Second most important is your drive, passion and commitment to the industry that you'll
be joining.
That's partly what you know, but it's mostly about your attitude.
Third on the list are your technical, analytical and problem-solving skills. The way you think
and reason.
So while grades are definitely important, they're not the only thing that will get you
a job or advance your career in the long term.
Helen Bobbitt: I would say the academic and the GPA is a small part of a candidate’s
application. So we’re looking to see that candidates are involved in things outside
of their academic studies to show that they’ve built other skills.
Daniel Lacey: In terms of skills that we look for we look for team work, that’s a huge
one in consultancy. You need to be able to work with others across all different levels.
Andrew Smith: Flexibility and adaptability is an important attribute also.
Natasha Reddrop: People’s interpersonal skills are very important. We are looking
at people’s ability to work in a team environment.
Rebecca Jenkins: We focus on students that knows technology, are really passionate about
what they do. We focus on working really closely with internships with UTS.
You'll be utilizing the skills and professionalism that you develop at UTS.
And all of those skills and attributes will be just as important to those graduates who'll
be the entrepreneurs of the future, who'll create their own jobs or businesses.
At UTS we're here to support you to create the future that you want...
It starts with you. You at UTS!