Why choose Sydney?
Five great reasons to study at the University of Sydney
Sydney Choice
At the University of Sydney we offer Sydney Choice - a wide range of dynamic courses with flexible degree structures. We don’t believe one model fits all. We encourage you to start working towards your goal, your way, from your first day at university.
As a global university, many of our degrees have a strong international emphasis. We offer comprehensive exchange programs that will allow you to travel and experience a different culture while you learn.
Through Sydney Choice we prepare you for the rigours of higher learning, provide you with skills and versatility for professional employment and help you rise to the responsibility of leadership.
Excellence in teaching and learning
The University of Sydney attracts some of the best students in Australia. With this privilege comes a responsibility to provide the highest quality learning and teaching.
We strive constantly for excellence in intellectual inquiry, academic freedom and integrity, and ethical practice in academic endeavours. At the heart of all of this is an exciting and stimulating student-centred learning and teaching environment.
A rich and vibrant student life
With hundreds of clubs and societies, cafes, bars, bands, theatre productions, sports, three sporting complexes, and Australia’s oldest student newspaper, Honi Soit, you will be a part of Australia’s most vibrant and active student community.
Our campus
The University of Sydney is a blend of neo-gothic sandstone history complete with gargoyles, cloisters and courtyards and contemporary, well-equipped architecture, offering the highest quality teaching, learning and research facilities. In 2010, the University will complete a $800 million project to renew, rebuild and enhance our campuses.
We create leaders
Many graduates from the University of Sydney are leaders, both nationally and on the world stage, in government, business, industry, the arts and sporting arena. University of Sydney alumni include:
- Former Prime Ministers John Howard, Gough Whitlam, William McMahon and Edmund Barton
- Former Governors-General Sir William Deane and Sir John Kerr
- Four of the seven current members of the High Court of Australia
- Aboriginal leaders Dr Charles Perkins and Noel Pearson,
- Entertainers the Chaser Boys, The Vines and Tim Freedman from the Whitlams
- Broadcasters Clive James, Adam Spencer, Julie McCrossin and Mary Kostakidis
- Former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK government, now President of the Royal Society, Professor Lord Robert May
- Sir John Cornforth, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Theatre director John Bell of Bell Shakespeare
- Film directors Jane Campion and Bruce Beresford
- 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks
More information
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