University Of Sydney

 

The University of Sydney (USYD, or casually Sydney Uni) is an Australian open examination college in Sydney, Australia. Established in 1850, it is Australia's first college and is viewed as one of the world's driving colleges. The college is known as one of Australia's six sandstone colleges. Its grounds are positioned in the best 10 of the world's most excellent colleges by the British Daily Telegraph and The Huffington Post, spreading over the downtown rural areas of Camperdown and Darlington. The college contains nine resources and college schools, through which it offers lone wolf, ace, and doctoral degrees. 

In 2018–19, the QS World University Rankings positioned Sydney as one of the world's best 25 most trustworthy universities, and its alumni as the main 5 generally employable on the planet and first in Australia. It is one of the primary colleges on the planet to concede understudies exclusively on scholastic legitimacy and made their ways for ladies on a similar premise as men.

Five Nobel and two Crafoord laureates have been partnered with the college as graduates and faculty. The college has taught seven Australian leaders, two lead representatives general of Australia, nine state lead representatives and region heads, and 24 judges of the High Court of Australia, including four boss judges. Sydney has delivered 110 Rhodes Scholars and 19 Gates Scholars. 

The University of Sydney is an individual from the Group of Eight, CEMS, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), the Association of Commonwealth Universities, and the Worldwide Universities Network.

Main campus

University of Sydney Quad Building

The main campus has been ranked in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful universities by the British Daily Telegraph, and The Huffington Post, among others such as Oxford and Cambridge and is spread across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington.

Originally housed in what is now Sydney Grammar School, in 1855 the government granted land in Grose Farm to the university, three kilometers from the city, which is now the main Camperdown campus. In 1854 the architect Edmund Blacket accepted a senate invitation for the first buildings to be designed. In 1858 the Great Hall was finished, and in 1859 the Main Building was built. He composed the original Neo-Gothic 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 Sydney Medical School, 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 (once referred to as "the Union", but now known as "the USU") 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 centers. One of the largest activities organised by the Union is Welcome Week (formerly Orientation Week or 'O-week', a three-day festival at the start of the academic year. Welcome Week centers on stalls set up by clubs and societies on the Front Lawns.

The main campus is home to a variety of statues, artworks, and monuments. These include the Gilgamesh Statue and the Confucius Statue.

Some other architects associated with the University were Walter Liberty Vernon, Walter Burley Griffin, Leslie Wilkinson, and the Government Architect's Office.[50] The building was designed in accordance with the university's master planning by the architect and founding dean of the university's architecture faculty Leslie Wilkinson, who himself was inspired by a previously unused masterplan developed for the campus by Walter Burley Griffin in 1915.

The 2002 conservation plan of the university stated that the Main Building and Quadrangle, Anderson Stuart Building, Gate Lodges, St Paul's College, St John's College, and St Andrew's College "comprise what is arguably the most important group of Gothic and Tudor Revival style architecture in Australia, and the landscape and grounds features associated with these buildings, including Victoria Park, contribute to and support the existence and appreciation of their architectural qualities and aesthetic significance."

In 2015 The NSW Department of Planning and Environment endorsed The University of Sydney's $1.4 billion Campus Improvement Plan which involved a number of new important structures and renovations.

As of 2016, the university is undertaking a large capital works program with the aim of revitalizing the campus and providing more office, teaching, and student space.[54] 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 the Fisher Library on the site of the old Edgeworth David and Stephen Roberts buildings, has been completed. The university has opened a new building called "Abercrombie building" for business school students in early 2016.

The NSW state government has reduced transport links to the old campus and the closest Redfern railway station leaving main access to buses on the neighboring Parramatta Road and City Road, prioritizing the growth at other Sydney universities.

From 2007, the university has used space in the former Eveleigh railway yards, just to the south of Darlington, for examination purposes.

In 2018, New South Wales Minister for Heritage, Gabrielle Upton agreed to put the University of Sydney and some adjacent sites on the state heritage register, creating a conservation area that would include the Camperdown campus, and the nearby Victoria Park.

The MacLaurin Hall

Former jacaranda tree in the main quadrangle

The interior of the Main Quadrangle Southern Range

The Great Tower (completed 1862) is on the eastern side of the Main Quadrangle

The inside of the University of Sydney Quadrangle in the Summer of 2019

Satellite campuses

Mallett Street campus: The Mallett Street campus is home of the Sydney Nursing School.

Cumberland campus: Formerly an independent institution (the Cumberland College of Health Sciences), the Cumberland campus in the Sydney suburb of Lidcombe was incorporated into the university as part of the higher education reforms of the late 1980s. It is home to the Faculty of Health Sciences, which covers various allied health disciplines, including physiotherapy, speech pathology, radiation therapy, occupational therapy, as well as exercise science and behavioural and social sciences in health.

The Sydney Dental Hospital located in Surry Hills and the Westmead Centre for Oral Health which is attached to Westmead Hospital.

Rozelle Campus: The Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) is based in a former sanitorium in the Sydney suburb of Rozelle, overlooking Port Jackson. The college specialises in the fine (visual) arts.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Formerly the NSW State Conservatorium of Music, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (SCM) is located in the Sydney CBD on the edge of Sydney's Royal Botanic Garden, a short distance from the Sydney Opera House. It became a faculty of the university in the 1990s and incorporates the main campus Department of Music, which was the subject of the documentary Facing the Music.

Camden campus: Located in one of the most rapidly growing peri-urban areas in the country, Sydney's southwest. The Camden campus houses lecture theatres, research institutes, veterinary clinics and research farms for bioscience, environmental science, agriculture and veterinary science.

Sydney CBD Campus: The University of Sydney Business School CBD Campus is located on Castlereagh Street in the heart of Sydney's CBD close to Town Hall station. The CBD Campus is a convenient, central-Sydney location primarily for participants in the business school's two highly reputed programs - Master of Business Administration (MBA)[56] and Master of Management (MMGT).[57] The CBD Campus has been purpose-designed by award-winning design studio Geyer to facilitate transformative management education.[58]

The university also uses a number of other facilities for its teaching activities.

Sydney Medical School has eight clinical schools at its affiliated hospitals, responsible for clinical education at the hospitals.

One Tree Island is an island situated within the World Heritage Site Great Barrier Reef Marine Park about 20 km east-southeast of Heron Island and about 90 km east-northeast of Gladstone on the Queensland coast, and hosts a tropical marine research station of the School of Geosciences.

The IA Watson Grains Research Centre located at Narrabri in north-central New South Wales is a research station of the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment.

The Molonglo Observatory is located in the Australian Capital Territory.

Maningrida is a base camp for scientific expeditions in the Northern Territory.

Arthursleigh is an agricultural estate located near Goulburn. An art studio is located in Paris, France, while the Australian Archaeology Centre is located in Athens, Greece.

Taylors College at Waterloo in Sydney is operated by the university for its Foundation Program, catering to international students wishing to enter the university.

Mallett Street Campus

Centre for Continuing Education

Library

Main article: University of Sydney Library

Faculty of Law Library

The University of Sydney Library consists of 11 individual libraries located across the university's various campuses. The Fisher and Health sciences libraries offer disability support services.[59] According to the library's publications, it is the largest academic library in the southern hemisphere;[60] 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.[61] It is also the only university in Australia to be a state legal deposit library[62] according to the Copyright Act 1968 which stipulates that a copy of every printed material published in NSW be sent to the University Library. The Rare Books Library possesses several extremely rare items, including one of the two extant copies of the Gospel of Barnabas and the first edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

Lake Northam in Victoria Park

Centre for Continuing Education

The Centre for Continuing Education is an adult education provider within the university. Extension lectures at the university were inaugurated in 1886, 36 years after the university's founding, making it Australia's longest-running university continuing education program.

Museums and galleries

The University's significant art, natural history, and antiquities collections are organized into a number of collections.

The Nicholson Museum of Antiquities contains the largest and most prestigious collection of antiquities in Australia. The museum was founded in 1860 by the donation of Sir Charles Nicholson (Sydney University's second chancellor 1854-1862). It is also the country's oldest university museum, and features ancient artifacts 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 museum is located in the historic Main Quadrangle at the University of Sydney and opens freely to the general public.

Nicholson Museum - Joy of Museum

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 7,000 pieces, constantly growing through donations, bequests, and acquisition. It is housed in several different places, including the Sir Hermann Black Gallery and the War Memorial Art Gallery.

The University Art Gallery opened in 1959. The Gallery hosted numerous exhibitions until 1972 when it was taken over for office space. It reopened in 1995 and continues to present a regularly changing program.

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 the first edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Sir Isaac Newton is held here. Regular exhibitions of rare books are held in the exhibition room.

In late 2020, a new museum will open and will combine the Nicholson, Macleay, and University Art collections into one institution called the Chau Chak Wing Museum. The new museum is named after Chau Chak Wing, a Chinese businessman.

Halls of residence and residential colleges

The university has a number of halls of residence (based on research-lead living-learning principles) and residential colleges, each with its own distinctive style and facilities. All offer a wide range of cultural, social, sporting and leadership activities along with targeted academic support in a supportive communal environment. The Halls of Residence are owned and operated by the University Accommodation Service. Starting in 2013, the University committed to creating the Halls of Residence (an additional 4,000-6,000 residential places) at an affordable price to enhance the educational experience of living on campus and to offer more students a rich academic environment in which to live.

The Queen Mary Building

Abercrombie Student Accommodation

Regiment Hall (Opening in 2018)

The University Student Accommodation Service were awarded the Asia-Pacific Student Housing Operation of the Year & Excellence in Facility Development and Management in 2016.

The Student Accommodation Service and the Mana Yura Student Support Service were the first in Australia to implement an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander On-Campus Residence Halls Scholarship Guarantee.

Additionally, the university owns and operates the International House.

Affiliated with the university are six religiously denominated colleges. Unlike some residential colleges in British or American universities, the colleges are not affiliated with any specific discipline of study.

International House

St John's College

St Andrew's College

St Paul's College

Sancta Sophia College

Wesley College

The Women's College

Mandelbaum House

There is a university-affiliated housing cooperative, Stucco.

The college also publishes a peer-reviewed online journal, Philament, that focuses on work by postgraduate students including creative stories. The journal is supported by an advisory board of faculty members and is registered by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education Science and Training (DEST).

A quarter of the university's female students residing in university colleges have been found to face sexual harassment. Between 2011 and 2016 there were 52 officially reported cases of sexual abuse and harassment on campus released by the university, resulting in 1 expulsion, 1 suspension and 4 reprimands. This is less than the 2017 Australian Human Rights Commission report on sexual assault and harassment which found reported figures substantially higher than this. 71% of students surveyed in 2017 reported not knowing how to make a report relating to sexual assault or harassment. Imogen Grant from the SRC said students who had experienced sexual assault had come forward believing that "navigating the university bureaucracy exacerbates trauma and often seems futile". Previously a 2015 survey of 2000 USyd students found that 57 percent of respondents did not know where to seek help or how to report sexual misconduct at USyd, and only 1.4% of all serious sexual incidents are reported. After the release of the 2017 report, the vice-chancellor said the university was committed to implementing "all of the recommendations contained in the report".Graphic videos emerged in 2018 of male students bragging of their sexual feats over the female students, particularly first-years.

Gallery

St John's College

Quadrangle of Sancta Sophia College

Wesley College

St Andrew's College

The Women's College

Organization

The university comprises five faculties and three university schools:

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

University of Sydney Business School

Faculty of Engineering

Faculty of Medicine and Health

Faculty of Science

Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Sydney Law School

The five largest faculties and schools by 2011 student enrolments were (in descending order): Arts and Social Sciences; Business; Science; Engineering; Health Sciences. Together they constituted 64.4% of the university's students and each had a student enrolment over 4,500 (at least 9% of students).[79]

A panoramic photograph of the Quadrangle

The Main Quadrangle of the University of Sydney

Academic profile

Rankings

University rankings

University of Sydney

QS World

THE-WUR World

ARWU World

USNWR World

CWTS Leiden World

Australian rankings

QS National

THE-WUR National

ARWU National

USNWR National

CWTS Leiden National

ERA National

The Anderson Stuart Building, housing the Sydney Medical School

The Macleay Building housing the Macleay Museum, the oldest collection of natural history in Australia

The Madsen Building, housing the School of Geosciences, previously occupied by the CSIRO

When averaging the world's major rankings, The University of Sydney appears to be ranked third in Australia, behind The University of Queensland  and The University of Melbourne