Murdoch University

Murdoch University is a university with its main campus at Murdoch, 14km south of Perth, Western Australia, along the Kwinana Freeway. It commenced operations as WA's second university in 1973, and opened its doors to its first students in 1975. Its name is taken from Sir Walter Murdoch (1874-1970), a prominent Australian academic and essayist famous for his intelligence, wit and humanity.

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University - Perth - Western Australia - Kwinana Freeway - 1973 - 1975 - Sir Walter Murdoch

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Murdoch University is home to 13,000 students, of which over 2,000 are international students. There are three main divisions at Murdoch: Arts (which includes Humanities, Social Sciences, IT, Law and Business); Health Sciences and Science and Engineering.

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Murdoch has Australia's geographically largest campus at 2.27 square kilometres, necessary in order to accommodate Western Australia's only veterinary and chiropractic school. Most of the southern part of the university consists of paddocks of livestock, farm and renewable energy facilities.

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Veterinary - Chiropractic

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The original group of University buildings surround an open court, known as "Bush Court", on an elevated site in the northern part of the campus. The buildings are linked on the court's sides by broad colonnaded verandahs in a compact design which aims at encouraging a sense of community. Features around campus include the Chinese garden and the Joglo Rahayu (Peace Pavilion).

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The University has three major campuses. Aside from Murdoch, there is the Rockingham Regional Campus, opened in 1996 alongside Rockingham's TAFE campus, which features dedicated facilities for Engineering, an Arts and Commerce building as well as a community library; and the Peel Campus in Mandurah, which opened in 2004 for nursing and life science students.

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Rockingham - 1996 - TAFE - Peel - Mandurah - 2004

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Murdoch University was initially intended to cater predominantly to mature-aged students. As a result, many courses are available externally and an increasing number are available online. It is home to several disciplinary schools: law, arts, information technology, science, psychology, engineering, veterinary studies, chiropractic, postgraduate pharmacy, education, mass communications and commerce.

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Law - Arts - Information technology - Science - Psychology - Engineering - Veterinary studies - Chiropractic - Pharmacy - Education - Mass communications - Commerce

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Murdoch University particularly prides itself on its high standard of teaching and focus on students' needs. It is widely seen as one of Australia's most liberal campuses and has strong representation for gay and lesbian people.

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Murdoch University is a member of Innovative Research Universities Australia (IRU Australia).

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