University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide (or Adelaide University) is located in Adelaide, South Australia. It was founded in 1874, making it the third oldest university in Australia. It is a member of the "Group of Eight", an association of research intensive Australian universities. The main campus of the University is at North Terrace in the central business district of Adelaide, but it has four other campuses; Roseworthy, Waite and Thebarton, and more recently, the National Wine Centre.

Academia

The University is divided into five faculties, the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Faculty of the Professions and the Faculty of Sciences.

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While marketable disciplines such as wine science, information studies and business studies have been given wide prominence recently, the university still has a reputation for quality basic research and teaching in mathematics, engineering and biotechnology. Some examples of influences to the University's teaching and research priorities are the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in Adelaide's northern suburbs to which the University provides many physics, engineering and IT graduates, the growth in South Australia's wine industry which is supported by the Waite and National Wine Centre campuses producing oenology and agriculture/viticulture graduates. The Adelaide Law School is among the most highly-respected in Australia, producing the best graduates of either law school in South Australia, the other being Flinders University.

Related Topics:
Defence Science and Technology Organisation - Oenology - Viticulture

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The university participates in the Auto-ID Labs.

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Among the distinguished academics at the University of Adelaide is the renowned theoretical physicist Dr Rod Crewther, and the pure mathematician Mathai Varghese.

Related Topics:
Dr Rod Crewther - Mathai Varghese

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