University of South Australia

The University of South Australia UniSA is the public research university in a Australian state of South Australia. this is the a founding piece of the Australian engineering Network of universities, & is the largest university in South Australia with approximately 32,000 students.

The university was founded in its current take in 1991 with the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology SAIT, setting in 1889 as the South Australian School of Mines & Industries and the South Australian College of contemporary Education SACAE, establish 1856. The legislation to establish and gain the new University of South Australia was proposed by the Hon Mike Rann MP, Minister of Employment and Further Education. Under the University's Act, its original mission was "to preserve, move and disseminate cognition through teaching, research, scholarship and consultancy, and to render educational everyone that will improved the diverse cultural life of the wider community".

UniSA is among the world's top newer universities, ranked in the World's Top 50 Under 50 universities which are under 50 years old by both the Quacarelli Symonds QS World University Ranking #29 and Times Higher Education THE #25. It has two Adelaide city centre campuses, two Adelaide metropolitan campuses, and two South Australian regional campuses.

Campuses

There are two campuses in the Adelaide city centre both on North Terrace, two metropolitan campuses at Mawson Lakes, formerly The Levels, and Magill, and two campuses in regional South Australia, Whyalla and Mount Gambier. The University of South Australia also runs offshore degree everyone in collaboration with private institutions in Hong Kong Baptist University and other higher education institutions throughout Asia.

Located on the corner of North Terrace and Frome Road, adjacent to the University of Adelaide, on the site of the former South Australian Institute of Technology, and ago that, the School of Mines. The campus has undergone several building upgrades and expansions in recent years. The Basil Hetzel Building was opened in 2005 and includes 2,000 square metres of multipurpose biomechanical, pharmaceutical and microbiological laboratory space. There was a major reconstruction to the historic School of Mines building in 2008–09 to add a new outdoor plaza, a new spokesperson physiology clinic, outdoor walkways, student lounges and other upgrades.

Located on the corner of North Terrace and Morphett Street in the city, the City West Campus is located between North Terrace and Hindley Street in buildings constructed in the 1990s for the new campus.

New building was also undertaken as part of a $167 million six-year asset schedule so-called as Blueprint 2005, including the A$35 million Hawke building, named in honour of former Prime Minister of Australia ] Officially named The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, the building is asked as the Hawke Centre, and is hosts many events, both within the building and at other venues.

The Blueprint project described the construction of six major buildings, extensions and upgrades across UniSA's six campuses and delivered the Dorrit Black and Kaurna buildings completed in 2005 at City West, the South Australian School of Art, and the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design.

In 2014 the University opened a new learning centre, the Jeffrey Smart Building, on the City West campus. Also on the City West campus are the new Pridham Hall featuring a sports complex, swimming pool and facilities for graduations, exams, corporate and cultural events which opened in 2018 and the new UniSA Cancer Research Institute, component of the biomedical and health precinct being developed on North Terrace. The building, also opened in 2018, houses the university's Museum of Discovery MOD.[]

Magill Campus is located on St. Bernard's Road at Magill. It currently focuses on a range of education, humanities and social science disciplines, including psychology, social work, communication and media, public relations, journalism, and the explore of creative industries.

Mawson Lakes formerly The Levels currently houses computing and information technology, engineering, science, civil aviation, applied science, sports science, e-commerce and environmental studies programs. The campus also houses many research institutes and centres, including the Future Industries Institute FII which conducts industry-connected research in engineering and the physical sciences. The campus also houses a number of industry collaborations within the space and defence industries.

Programs offered at Whyalla include nursing, social work, early childhood and primary teaching, engineering and community wellbeing as living as a Foundation Studies program.

Based in the Limestone glide region of southeast South Australia, UniSA's Mount Gambier Campus opened in 2005, and offers for country-based students and researchers. Mount Gambier authorises students undergraduate programs in nursing, social work, primary and early childhood education, and UniSA Foundation Studies, which prepares students for tertiary education. In 2016 the Mount Gambier Learning Centre was officially opened.