INTRODUCTION COAT OF ARMS NOTABLE ALUMNI ORGANISATION LOCATION

INTRODUCTION COAT OF ARMS NOTABLE ALUMNI ORGANISATION LOCATION CAMPUSES UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY LIBRARIES THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY LOCATION STUDENT ORGANISATIONS

The University of Sydney (commonly referred to as Sydney University, Sydney Uni, USyd, or Sydney) is an Australian public university in Sydney. Founded in 1850, it is Australia's first university and is regarded as one of its most prestigious, ranked as the world's 27 th most reputable university. In 2013, it was ranked 37 th and in the top 0. 3% in the QS World University Rankings. Seven Nobel or Crafoord laureates have been affiliated with the university as graduates and faculty. Its campus is ranked in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful universities by the British Daily Telegraph and The Huffington Post, spreading across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington. The University comprises 16 faculties and schools, through which it offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In 2011 it had 32, 393 undergraduate and 16, 627 graduate students. Sydney University is a member of the prestigious Group of Eight, Academic Consortium 21, the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning, the Australia-Africa Universities Network (AAUN), the Association of Commonwealth Universities and the Worldwide Universities Network. The University is also colloquially known as one of Australia's sandstone universities.

The university comprises 16 faculties and schools: § Faculty of Agriculture and Environment § Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning § Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences § University of Sydney Business School § Faculty of Dentistry § Faculty of Education and Social Work § Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies § Faculty of Health Sciences § Sydney Law School § Sydney Medical School § Sydney Nursing School § Faculty of Pharmacy § Faculty of Science § Sydney College of the Arts § Sydney Conservatorium of Music § Faculty of Veterinary Science The five largest faculties and schools by 2011 student enrollments were (in descending order): Arts and Social Sciences; Business; Science; Engineering and Information Technologies; 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).

The Grant of Arms was made by the College of Arms in 1857. The use of eight-pointed stars was unusual for arms at the time, although they had been used unofficially as emblems for New South Wales since the 1820 s and on the arms of the Church of England Diocese of Australia in 1836. According to the university, the Latin motto ”Sidere mens eadem mutato” can be translated as "Though the constellations change, the mind is universal", thereby, conveying the aspiration that "the traditions of the older universities of the Northern Hemisphere are continued here in the Southern. " Author and university alumnus Clive James quipped in his 1981 autobiography that the motto loosely translates as "Sydney University is really Oxford or Cambridge laterally displaced approximately 12, 000 miles. "

Throughout its history, University of Sydney alumni have made significant contributions to both Australia and the world. Australian leaders who have graduated from the University include two governors-general, six Australian prime ministers, the most of any university, including Australia's first, Sir Edmund Barton, four chief justices of the High Court of Australia, and twenty other justices of the High Court, as well as the third president of the United Nations General Assembly and seven Nobel laureates or Crafoord laureates. According to ABC NEWS, the university produced more ultra high-net-worth alumni than any other Australian university and the number of rich Sydney alumni was ranked fifth outside the United States, behind Cambridge and LSE.

. Bernard Yarnton Mills (1920 -2011) Australian astronomer Gordon Gostelow (1925 -2007) New Zealand actor Katrina Warren (1967 -…) Australian veterinarian, writer, producer and model. And many others…

CAMPUSES

Ø MAIN CAMPUS Ø CAMPERDOWN/DARLINGTON CAMPUS: faculties of Agriculture and Environment, Architecture, Arts and Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Engineering, Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Veterinary Science and the University of Sydney Business School. Ø CUMBERLAND CAMPUS: THE FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND IS LOCATED IN LIDCOMBE, AROUND 16 KM WEST OF THE CITY CENTRE. Ø MALLETT STREET CAMPUS: THIS CAMPUS HOUSES THE SYDNEY NURSING SCHOOL Ø SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC CAMPUS: one of the world's finest music schools and is located in the Royal Botanic Gardens near the Sydney Opera House. Ø SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (SCA) AT ROZELLE CAMPUS: SYDNEY COLLEGE OF THE ARTS IS THE VISUAL ARTS COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY AND OCCUPIES HISTORIC SANDSTONE BUILDINGS SET IN BEAUTIFUL AND SPACIOUS GROUNDS ON THE EDGE OF THE HARBOUR AT ROZELLE. Ø Ø SURRY HILLS CAMPUS: THE FACULTY OF DENTISTRY ST JAMES CAMPUS: THE LAW SCHOOL CAMDEN CAMPUS: THE FACULTY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE BURREN STREET CAMPUS: THE INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS STUDIES (BUSINESS SCHOOL)

The main campus has been ranked in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful universities by the British Daily Telegraph, The Huffington Post and Disney Pixar, among others such as Oxford and Cambridge and is spread across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington. The main campus is also the focus of the university's student life, with the student-run University of Sydney Union (known as 'the Union') 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 centres. One of the largest activities organised by the Union is the Orientation Week (or 'Oweek'), centring on stalls set up by clubs and societies on the Front Lawns. The university is currently undertaking a large capital works program with the aim of revitalising the campus and providing more office, teaching and student space. 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. CAMPUSES for the Sydney Law School, located alongside Fisher Library on the site of

The University of Sydney Library consists of eleven individual libraries located across the University's various campuses. According to the library's publications, it is the largest academic library in the southern hemisphere; 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. The Rare Books Library possesses several extremely rare items, including one of the two extant copies of the Gospel of Barnabas and a first edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

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

§ Student Representatives: Politically and academically, undergraduate students are represented by the Students' Representative Council (SRC) and postgraduate students by the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association (SUPRA). § University of Sydney Union: The University of Sydney Union (USU) is the oldest and largest university union in Australia. USU provides a range of activities, programs, services and facilities geared at giving students the university experience. This involves delivering a huge Clubs and Societies program, a varied entertainment program, student opportunities, a range of catering and retail services plus buildings and recreational spaces for students, staff and visitors. § Sydney Uni Sport and Fitness: Formerly known as the Sydney University Sports Union and Sydney University Women's Sports Association, Sydney University Sport is one of Australia's largest tertiary sporting bodies. It currently manages and administers 42 sport and recreation clubs, organises sporting and recreation events, and offers student and non. THE student members a comprehensive range of sporting facilities. END

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