ECU offers innovative and practical courses across a variety of disciplines and we have a vibrant research culture. ECU is a leader in developing alternative entry pathways to higher education.
We have three campuses in Western Australia. Joondalup and Mount Lawley in the Perth metropolitan area and our South West campus in Bunbury, 200km south of the Perth CBD.
ECU provides a variety of services and facilities that go beyond the classroom, with opportunities for personal development and social interaction for students and staff.
We collaborate with all types of businesses, including new start-ups, small to medium enterprises, not-for-profits, community organisations, government and large corporates in the resources sector.
Children's University Edith Cowan aims to inspire students between seven and fourteen to develop confidence and a love of learning through validated activities beyond the school curriculum.
The Inspiring Minds scholarship program are equity scholarships that give students an opportunity to access an education that may otherwise be out of reach.
This page is a snapshot of our university's most recent rankings from national and international surveys. It paints a picture of the quality of the educational experience our graduates say they received, and some very good reasons to choose ECU for future study.
Good Universities Guide
Australian university graduates are surveyed annually about the quality of their university experience and subsequent employment outcomes. The resulting scores are translated into star ratings and are published in the Good Universities Guide.
ECU has been an Australian leader in university teaching for many years, as confirmed by these recent 5-star ratings.
Teaching Quality
Learning Resources
Skills Development
Student Support
Undergraduate study
ECU has maintained its long-standing 5-star rating for undergraduate teaching quality for 18 straight years, equal to the best in Australia.
Five-star ratings have also been achieved for students' overall experience, student support, skills development and learning resources.
These undergraduate ratings also put ECU again at the top of all Western Australian universities.
Postgraduate study
Overall, postgraduate students have rated ECU highly, with five-stars for overall experience, teaching quality, student support, skills development and learning resources.
Our university is rated number one in Western Australia for overall experience, student support and full-time employment for postgraduate coursework students.
ECU's highly rated subject areas
For a range of fields of study or subject areas defined by the Good Universities Guide for undergraduate and postgraduate study, ECU rates highly on:
Computing and Information Systems (Undergraduate)
Best overall experience and student support in Australia for undergraduate Computing and IT students.
Education and Training
Best in Australia for overall experience, student support, and learning resources for postgraduate students in this field.
Agriculture and Environmental Studies
Top uni for learning resources, and #1 in WA for overall experience of postgraduate coursework students.
Computing and Information Systems (Postgraduate)
Best student support and #3 in Australia for overall experience for postgraduate coursework students.
Australian Financial Review's Best Universities Top 10
ECU has been ranked sixth in Australia in the inaugural AFR list, the only WA university to make the top 10.
Rankings are based on 5 categories: student satisfaction, research performance, global reputation, career impact and equity and access.
Top 400 in Times Higher Education World University Rankings
ECU has maintained its position for the third year running as one of the top 400 universities in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2025.
This Times Higher Education ranking lists the top universities in the world based on their performance in:
This independent Australian government survey is the only comprehensive review of current higher education students across Australia's public and private universities.
QILT means Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching. It's based on hundreds of thousands of surveys completed in 2023.
Top undergrad and postgrad experience in Australia
Our undergraduate students have rated ECU top public university in Australia for their overall experience, skills development and student support and services in the 2023 QILT Student Experience Survey.
Of all Western Australian universities, ECU is top for undergraduate teaching quality, overall experience, skills development, student support and services and learning resources survey categories.
We also ranked Australia's top public university for postgraduate overall experience and skills development and ranked second in teaching quality, student support and services and learning resources.
ECU graduate employment rate tops all WA universities
The latest Graduate Outcomes Survey shows 93% of our graduates are in full-time employment within 3 years of completing their degrees, above the national average.
ECU's highest ranking for employability of graduates is in the fields of Computer and Information Systems, Engineering, Health Services, Nursing and Teacher Education.
71.8% of ECU graduates are in professional or managerial positions within 3 years, a testament to the high quality of our teaching and the job readiness initiatives.
Three years after completing their degree, graduates earn the highest average salary of all WA universities at $86,900 a year.
The QS World University Rankings is a portfolio of comparative university rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education analytics firm, based in London.
Excellence in Sport
ECU continues to be highly regarded internationally for Sports related subjects, again being ranked 30th in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022.
Among Australian universities, we’re ranked sixth for Sports related subjects.
For Nursing studies, ECU is again ranked in the global top 100.
