James Cook University
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motto | "Light ever increasing" |
founding | 1970 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Townsville / Cairns , Australia |
Chancellor | Bill Tweddell |
Students | 15,756 (2007) |
Employee | 4,000 |
including professors | 608 |
Annual budget | 113.6 million AUD |
Website | jcu.edu.au |
The James Cook University , shortly JCU is a university in Townsville and Cairns , in the Australian state of Queensland .
James Cook University was founded in 1970; Namesake is James Cook . In addition to the two main locations, Townsville and Cairns, there are locations in Brisbane and Singapore as well as institutes in Mackay , Mount Isa , Thursday Island , Orpheus Island , Paluma and "Fletcherview" in the vicinity of Charters Towers .
Faculties
- Art, education and social sciences
- Law, economics, arts and humanities
- Health, medicine and molecular science
- Natural and engineering sciences as well as information technology
Web links
- Official website (English)
Footnotes
Coordinates: 19 ° 19 ′ 40.8 ″ S , 146 ° 45 ′ 25.2 ″ O