About the University of Adelaide

Adelaide University is one of the best universities in Australia.

It is consistently ranked as one of only four Australian universities to achieve top ratings in quality assessments of teaching, curriculum development and research performance. It regularly attracts the largest amount of research funding per capita of any Australian university.

Since its foundation in 1874, the University has developed an international reputation for excellence in research and teaching. It has produced three Nobel Prize winners and some of Australia's greatest scientists, scholars and public figures.

It is a medium sized, multi-campus university with more than 14,000 students, including 1,500 international students from 70 countries.

Programs offered by Adelaide University are internationally recognised and many of its graduates hold major positions in commerce, industry, government and universities throughout the world.

The University has formal links with more than 40 universities in the United States of America, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the United Kingdom.

Adelaide is a leading edge university which maintains a long and proud tradition of excellence in education and liberal values of inquiry - qualities that characterise great institutes of learning.