Murdoch University

Murdoch University
founding	1973
Sponsorship	state
place	Perth , Australia
Vice Chancellor	Eeva Leinonen
Students	18,000
Employee	1,400 scientific employees
Website	www.murdoch.edu.au

The Murdoch University is an Australian University in Perth , Western Australia (West Coast) that on July 25, 1973 was established as the seventeenth University in Australia.

overview

The university was founded as a university with a focus on research and 20 different institutes were set up for this purpose. It is named after the Australian writer and scholar Sir Walter Murdoch (1874–1970).

The Murdoch Campus, the oldest of the sites, is the university's headquarters. The university campus covers 227 hectares approximately 15 km south of the Perth Central Business District and is a few kilometers from the port of Fremantle . The Peel Campus, the southernmost campus of the university, is about 80 km away from the city of Perth in Mandurah. The new building only went into operation in February 2005 and is now intended to expand the university's offerings, especially biomedicine, in the future. The Rockingham campus is located 45 km south of the Perth Central Business District in central Rockingham. On this smaller campus there are mainly facilities for engineering sciences.

Faculties

The university has divided its subjects into 4 faculties:

Arts (Social Sciences, Humanities and Education)

with a range of subjects in theater and communication studies, media and multimedia studies, literary studies, English, philosophy, Asian studies, education (all levels), sustainable development, "Aboriginal and Torres Islander Studies", journalism, gender studies, psychology, community and Regional studies, history, theology, tourism and sociology.

Science and Engineering

Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Conservation Biology, Engineering, Engineering Technology, Environmental Sciences, Metallurgy, Marine Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Molecular Biology, Physics and Energy Sciences.

Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences

Veterinary Medicine, Biomedicine and Health Sciences

Business, Information Technology and Law

Information technology, informatics, criminology, business informatics, economics and business administration, economics with various focuses such as accounting, advertising, e-commerce, e-marketing, hospitality management and tourism services, marketing or telecommunications sciences, political sciences, law

Others

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

Partner universities

There are over 65 international partnerships, including in German-speaking countries:

Web links

Official website

Footnotes

↑ Senior executive team. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .

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[1] Senior executive team. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .


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