Curtin University

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Curtin University
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motto Look ever forward
founding 1987
Sponsorship state
place Perth , Australia
Chancellor Deborah Terry
Students 56,600
Employee 4,500 scientific staff
Website www.curtin.edu.au
TL Robertson Library

The Curtin University is an Australian University in Perth , Western Australia (West Coast), which was founded in the 1987th Until 2010 it was known as the Curtin University of Technology. In 1998, 1999 and 2000, Curtin was named Australia's Best Technical University.

overview

The university was founded in 1987 as a technical college. The university is named after the former Australian Prime Minister John Curtin . Curtin University was preceded by the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT) founded in 1966.

The main campus of Curtin University in Bentley is about six kilometers southeast of central Perth. In addition to the three city campuses in and around Perth, the university also has rural campuses in Kalgoorlie , 600 kilometers east of Perth in the gold fields and in Northam , 100 kilometers east of Perth. Another campus in Miri in the state of Sarawak ( Malaysia ) was opened in 2002.

Curtin University offers over 850 different undergraduate and graduate courses. The university is particularly known for its training and research skills in engineering and economics.

The Curtin Business School (CBS) was the first business school in Australia to receive the renowned EQUIS quality seal from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and is still accredited to this day.

The MBA program, which has been carried out by the Curtin Graduate School of Business since 1997, is AMBA-accredited and in 2005 ranked 90th in the worldwide MBA ranking of the Economist Intelligence Unit .

Faculties

The university has divided its subjects into 5 (+1) faculties:

  1. Engineering, Science and Computing
  2. Humanities
  3. Curtin Business School (CBS)
  4. Health Sciences
  5. Resources and Environment
  6. Offshore Campus in Miri, Malaysia (Curtin Sarawak)

Others

Other universities in Perth include the University of Western Australia , Edith Cowan University , Murdoch University and University of Notre Dame . Some of these universities have branches in other cities such as Albany , Bunbury , Broome , Esperance and Kalgoorlie .

German partner universities

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://about.curtin.edu.au/who/welcome/
  2. ↑ Press release: Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences concludes “down under” cooperation on October 14, 2014.
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