This vintage university’s alumni include five Nobel Laureates, over 100 Rhodes Scholars, Australia’s first woman prime minister and first woman Supreme Court judge Reshma Ravishanker Founded in 1874, the University of Adelaide (UoA) is the sixth continent’s third oldest university. Currently celebrating its 150th anniversary, the publicly-funded UoA is ranked among the world’s top one percent by highly-reputed international ranking agencies — #89 in the QS World Rankings 2024, #74 in US News & World Report’s Best Global Universities Rankings 2023, and #111 in the THE World University Rankings 2024. Moreover, the varsity’s research outcomes are rated “above or well above world standard” by the Australian Research Council’s Excellence in Research Australia Program. In 2023, Adelaide U reported an impressive $231.8 million (Rs.1,937 crore) research income. Sprawled across three campuses in Adelaide (and one in Melbourne), the university offers 148 undergraduate and 87 postgraduate programmes to 22,700 students including 6,800 international students from 100 countries worldwide. It’s pertinent to note that UoA’s second largest cohort (after China) of foreign students is from India. This vintage Oz varsity has schooled a string of illustrious alumni including five Nobel Laureates, over 100 Rhodes Scholars, Australia’s first woman prime minister Julia Gillard, Supreme Court judge Roma Mitchell, poet and classicist, Adenan Satem, and astronaut Andy Thomas, among others. Adelaide. The cosmopolitan capital of South Australia, Adelaide (pop.1.4 million) is a superbly well-planned city of wide streets and boulevards, neat public squares, parklands and a mixture of historic and modern buildings. The economic, cultural, political and social epicentre of the state, this coastal city is ranked #12 worldwide in The Economist’s Global Liveability Index 2022, and offers excellent social and recreational opportunities including cinemas and theatres, museums, art galleries, music, shopping, sailing and windsurfing on its 60-km long coastline, hiking excursions and exploration of wineries on peripheries of the city. Public transport infrastructure within the city is excellent, convenient and inexpensive and the climate is Mediterranean with warm, dry summers and cool, wet winters. Average temperature varies between 25oC-35oC in summer and 10oC-15oC in winter. Campus facilities. UoA hosts four campuses — North Terrace, Roseworthy, Waite and Melbourne. The main North Terrace campus is sited in the heart of Adelaide, within walking distance of the Art Gallery of South Australia and State Library of South Australia, and offers a mix of historical and contemporary architecture combining old sandstone buildings with state-of-the-art teaching, learning and research facilities. This campus is the hub of undergrad studies and research centres. The Waite campus is sited within a seven kilometre radius from North Terrace and hosts the university’s Urrbrae House Historic Precinct, Waite Arboretum, Waite Conservation Reserve and Waite Research Institute. This campus is Oz’s pre-eminent plant and agricultural science research hub providing high quality research facilities for farming systems, viticulture and oenology, food science and nutrition. The Roseworthy campus, sited 50 km from Adelaide, hosts South Australia’s sole veterinary school and also focuses on research in drylands agriculture. Further afield in the state of Victoria, the Melbourne…
