ABOUT THIS UNIVERSITY:
University of Sydney students and researchers come from all over the world and all backgrounds to prepare for a life of challenge and change.
They are unique among Australia's leading universities in the breadth of disciplines They offer, providing wide opportunities for personal development and cross-disciplinary study that delivers unique insights and breakthroughs.
Close to the heart of Australia's largest and most international city, their central campus has been transformed by the recent completion of state-of-the-art teaching, research and student support facilities.
Their researchers pursue cutting-edge breakthroughs, reaching across disciplinary barriers to find unique solutions to improve and transform our lives.
Studying alongside these top researchers, and in some cases contributing to their research, exposes Sydney students to excellence – and challenges them to succeed as leaders in whatever career field they choose
Their students are intimately involved in University life, from social clubs to having a strong voice in University decision-making; this involvement sets us apart from our Australian peers, generating a unique on-campus buzz.
They constantly build on the innovations of their alumni, who include prime ministers, Nobel laureates, Oscar winners, business leaders, medical pioneers, artists, intellectuals and activists.
They have all benefited from the University's determination to develop curious minds that are ready to embrace challenges and devour knowledge, to reveal new perspectives and find solutions.
They reach beyond the campuses to improve the lives of those who never enter the classrooms or laboratories as academics or students.
Their award-winning researchers are leaders in addressing issues that impact everyone, from public health to environmental sustainability.
They contribute to Australia's community life through championship-winning sports teams and leading art and music performances.
OBJECTIVE:
They aim to create and sustain a university in which, for the benefit of both Australia and the wider world, the brightest researchers and the most promising students, whatever their social or cultural background, can thrive and realise their full potential.
They continually drive themselves to find new ways to be accountable to the public good – to produce ideas and people that lead to smarter solutions and richer lives.
VALUES:
The University of Sydney is a diverse community of students and staff. They value open minds, avid curiosity and a readiness to take on the big questions.
They encourage vigorous debate, and they believe that differing perspectives can make good ideas even better.
Amid this diversity, a number of core values underpin everything they do as a university.
These values articulate what they believe in and stand for.
FACULTIES AND SCHOOLS:
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Architecture, Design and Planning
Arts and Social Sciences
Business (Business School)
Dentistry
Education and Social Work
Engineering and Information Technologies
Health Sciences
Law (Sydney Law School)
Medicine (Sydney Medical School)
Nursing (Sydney Nursing School)
Pharmacy
Science
Sydney College of the Arts
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
Veterinary Science
Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
Architecture, Design and Planning
Arts and Social Sciences
School of Economics
School of Letters, Art, and Media
School of Languages and Cultures
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
School of Social and Political Sciences
Business (Business School)
Discipline of Accounting
Discipline of Business Information Systems
Discipline of Business Law
Discipline of Finance
Discipline of International Business
Discipline of Marketing
Discipline of Operations Management and Econometrics
Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies
Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS)
Workplace Research Centre
Dentistry
Education and Social Work
Engineering and Information Technologies
School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic
School of Chemical and Biomolecular
School of Civil Engineering
School of Electrical and Information
School of Information Technologies
Health Sciences
Discipline of Behavioural and Social Sciences in Health
Discipline of Exercise and Sport Science
Discipline of Health Informatics
Discipline of Medical Radiation Sciences
Discipline of Occupational Therapy
Discipline of Orthoptics
Discipline of Physiotherapy
Discipline of Rehabilitation Counselling
Discipline of Speech Pathology
Law (Sydney Law School)
Medicine (Sydney Medical School)
Central Clinical School
Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School
Concord Clinical School
Nepean Clinical School
Northern Clinical School
School of Medical Sciences
School of Public Health
School of Rural Health
Western Clinical School
Nursing and Midwifery (Sydney Nursing School)
Pharmacy
Science
History and Philosophy of Science
School of Biological Sciences
School of Chemistry
School of Geosciences
School of Mathematics and Statistics
School of Molecular Bioscience
School of Physics
School of Psychology
Sydney College of the Arts
Sydney Conservatorium of Music
• School of Performance and Academic Studies
ENDOWMWNTS AND RESEARCH GRANTS:
The University of Sydney currently has financial endowments totaling $829 million.
A drop due to recent downturn of the global economic situation.
The university's turnover, in turn, was A$ 1.3 billion in 2008.
Latest figures show that the University of Sydney has received the highest amount of research grants, which may demonstrate its research competitiveness and the size of its students and staff body.
The University of Sydney also has the second largest (behind Monash University) body of students and researchers among Australian universities.
The University of Sydney secured more than $46 million in funding in the 2007 round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant, Capacity Building and Fellowship awards, the largest allocation to any university in the state.
The James Jones foundation has announced the 2007 recipient of the bicentennial award in university research linked to applied agricultural economics.
The award includes various grant and research opportunities that may be taken up by both staff members and senior students.
Five of the university's affiliated medical research facilities secured $38 million in the Australian government's 2006 budget, part of $163 million made available for a variety of development and expansion projects.
CAMPUS:
The main campus is spread across two inner-city suburbs of Sydney: Camperdown and Darlington.
Originally housed in what is now Sydney Grammar School, in 1855, the government granted the university land in Grose Farm, three kilometres from the city, which is now the main Camperdown campus.
The architect Edmund Blacket designed the original Neogothic sandstone Quadrangle and Great Tower buildings, which were completed in 1862.
The rapid expansion of the university in the mid-20th century resulted in the acquisition of land in Darlington across City Road.
The Camperdown/Darlington campus houses the university's administrative headquarters, and the Faculties of Arts, Science, Education and Social Work, Pharmacy, Veterinary Science, Economics and Business, Architecture, and Engineering.
It is also the home base of the large Faculty of Medicine, which has numerous affiliated teaching hospitals across the state.
The main campus is also the focus of the university's student life, with the student-run University of Sydney Union (known as 'the Union') in possession of three buildings - Wentworth, Manning and Holme Buildings.
These buildings house a large proportion of the university's catering outlets, and provide space for recreational rooms, bars and function centres.
One of the largest activities organised by the Union is the Orientation Week (or 'O-week'), centring on stalls set up by clubs and societies on the Front Lawns.
The university is currently undertaking a large capital works program with the aim of revitalising the campus and providing more office, teaching and student space.
The program will see the amalgamation of the smaller science and technical libraries into a larger library, and the construction of a central administration and student services building along City Road.
A new building for the School of Information Technologies opened in late 2006, and has been located on a site adjacent to the Seymour Centre.
The busy Eastern Avenue thoroughfare has been transformed into a pedestrian plaza, and a new footbridge has been built over City Road.
The new home for the Sydney Law School, located alongside Fisher Library on the site of the old Edgeworth David and Stephen Roberts buildings, has been completed.
From 2007, the university will also use space in the former Eveleigh railway yards, just to the south of Darlington, for examination purposes.
The campus is well served by public transport, being a short walk from Redfern Railway Station and served by buses on the neighbouring Parramatta Road and City Road
FACILITIES AND SERVICES:
LIBRARY DETAILS:
The University of Sydney Library consists of thirteen individual libraries located across the university's various campuses.
According to the library's publications, it is the largest academic library in the southern hemisphere;university statistics show that in 2007 the collection consisted of just under 5 million physical volumes and a further 300,000 e-books, for a total of approximately 5.3 million items.
The Rare Books Library possesses several extremely rare items, including one of the two extant copies of the Gospel of Barnabas and a first edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
MUSEMS AND GALLERIES:
Nicholson Museum of Antiquities contains the largest and most prestigious collection of antiquities in Australia. It is also the country's oldest university museum, and features ancient artefacts from Egypt, the Middle East, Greece, Rome, Cyprus and Mesopotamia, collected by the University over many years and added to by recent archaeological expeditions.
The Macleay Museum is named after Alexander Macleay, whose collection of insects begun in the late eighteenth century was the basis upon which the museum was founded. It has developed into an extraordinary collection of natural history specimens, ethnographic artifacts, scientific instruments and historic photographs.
The University Art Collection was founded in the 1860s and contains more than 2,500 pieces, constantly growing through donation, bequests, and acquisition. It is housed in several different places, including the Sir Hermann Black Gallery and the War Memorial Art Gallery.
The Rare Books Library is a part of the Fisher Library and holds 185,000 books and manuscripts which are rare, valuable or fragile, including eighty medieval manuscripts, works by Galileo, Halley and Copernicus and an extensive collection of Australiana. The copy of the Gospel of Barnabas, and a first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton are held here. Regular exhibitions of rare books are held in the exhibition room.
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES:
The university has a number of residential college and halls of residence each with its own distinctive style and facilities.
All offer tutorial support and a wide range of social and sporting activities in a supportive communal environment.
Five colleges are affiliated with religious denominations and while this gives each of these colleges a special character, students of any denomination or religion are eligible for admission. Unlike some residential colleges in British or American universities, the colleges are not affiliated with any specific discipline of study.
"Intercol" refers to the six colleges which exist on campus.
They are modelled on the British system of colleges and competition for entry is high each year.
The Colleges compete in the Rawson Cup (sport for men) the Rosebowl cup (sport for women) and the Palladian Cup (drama, debating and music for both men and women).
St John's College
St Andrew's College
St Paul's College
Sancta Sophia College
Wesley College
The Women's College
The Univerity also has three other residential systems, which are very different to the colleges, and are not part of the intercol system. For a variety of important reasons, the intercol network has chosen to have no affiliation with these "houses".
Mandelbaum House
International House, University of Sydney
Sydney University Village [2]
There is also a university-affiliated housing cooperative, Stucco.
SUGGESTION ABOUT THE COLLEGE:
This university was formed with the avowed objective of imparting quality education.
It prepares aspiring students for leading a life of accomplishment,leadership and service to their profession, to their communities and to their nation to the world.
They dilate as a center of relevance and excellence in their field .
They improve the effectiveness of the system continually as well as comply with the statutory and regulatory requirement.
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