University of Sydney - Campus

Main campus  The cloisters in the Main Quadrangle 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, ...

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University of Sydney - University rankings

QS World University Rankings 2012–2013 placed the University of Sydney 39th in the world. The 2013 QS World University Rankings by Subject[22] placed Sydney in the top 20 in the world in 11 subjects; more than a third of the 30 measured. The University of Sydney was ranked 8th in the world for Education, 9th in Accounting and Finance and 10th in Law. Additionally, Sydney was placed 12th in English Language and Literature, History and Archaeology, ...

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University of Sydney - History

In 1848, in the New South Wales Legislative Council, William Wentworth proposed a plan to expand the existing Sydney College into a larger university. Wentworth argued that a state university was imperative for the growth of a society aspiring towards self-government, and that it would provide the opportunity for "the child of every class, to become great and useful in the destinies of his country". It would take two attempts on Wentworth's behalf, ...

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University of Sydney

The University of Sydney is a public Australian university in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania. In 2011 it had 32,393 undergraduate and 16,627 graduate students.[2] The University of Sydney is organised into sixteen faculties and schools, through which it offers ...

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