Flinders University

Flinders University was founded as a public university in 1966, at Adelaide, South Australia.  Today, the University has over 16,600 enrolled students and 1800 working staff. Over 3,100 of the students are international that have come from 100 different backgrounds. Flinders University is a member of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) Group. Each year, AU$9 million is invested on research studies carried out by the four faculties of the University.

Research Centres and Institutes:

Flinders University has many research centres and institutes, a few of them are listed below:

·         Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer

·         Centre for Neuroscience

·         Flinders Institute of Psychological Science

·         Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity

·         Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research     

·         Medical Device Research Institute

·         Centre for Clinical Change and Health Care Research

·         Flinders Centre for Nano Scale Science and Technology

·         Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health

The University has 3 campuses that all offers: accommodation, Building access, Child and parenting facilitates, Health and welfare facilities, food courts, shops and agencies, Sports and fitness facilities and etc.

The University has many teams that compete in social and competitive competitions. It also fields a baseball side in the Division 5 and 6 levels of the South Australia Baseball League.

Rankings:

Flinders’ facilities of medicine and the humanities are ranked among the nation’s top 10. In addition, according to Academic Ranking of World Universities, Flinders is ranked amongst the World’s top 400 institutions. Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top universities ranks Flinders University in the 251 to 300 bracket.

Faculties, Schools and Departments:

A range of disciplines are offered through Schools and Departments of the 4 faculties of Flinders University.

·         Faulty of Education, Humanities and Law

·         Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Science

·         Faculty of Science and Engineering

·         Faculty of Social and Behavioral Science

Accommodation

More information about accommodations can be found on the relevant page of our website.