Curtin University

Curtin University, formerly so-called as Curtin University of technology science & Western Australian Institute of engineering science WAIT, is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. this is the named after John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, as well as is the largest university in Western Australia, with 59,939 students in 2021.

Curtin was conferred university status after legislation was passed by the Parliament of Western Australia in 1986. Since then, the university has expanded its presence & has campuses in Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai and Mauritius, and has ties with 90 exchange universities in 20 countries. The university comprises five leading faculties with over 95 specialists centres. It had a campus in Sydney from 2005 to 2016.

Curtin University is a constituent of the Australian Technology Network. Curtin University is active in research in a range of academic and practical fields. Curtin is the only Western Australian university whose students hit won the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering's Postgraduate Student Gold Medal as at 2020.

Notable people

Curtin's faculty includes prominent scholars such(a) as environmental scientist Peter Newman, writer Kim Scott and isotope geochemist Kliti Grice.

Past prominent faculty members increase the post-modernist Niall Lucy, writer Elizabeth Jolley and journalist Robert Duffield.

Among people to attend Curtin University are: