Adelaide University

Adelaide University is Australia's new university for the future, ranked in the global top 100 by QS Rankings. With more than 180 years of collective experience and achievement, Adelaide University will leverage the capabilities and resources of its foundation institutions to foster bright futures and breakthroughs.

As a new university, Adelaide University allows students to reach their full potential. The university collaborates closely with industry leaders to deliver its degrees, ensuring graduates are ready for tomorrow's workforce and equipped with practical, job-relevant skills. Delivering Australia's most accessible, contemporary and future-focused curriculum and an exceptional student experience, Adelaide University empowers students to become lifelong learners.

Through meaningful partnerships anchored in educational and research excellence, Adelaide University makes a measurable impact. Its ambition is to be world-leading and world-referenced through its actions and through the success and influence of its students, staff, researchers, partners and alumni community.

Adelaide University proudly holds the largest campus footprint in South Australia, and has campuses across Adelaide including city, metropolitan, and regional campuses. The diverse global student community on the university's various campuses makes for a vibrant and inclusive student experience. International students will discover a supportive and innovative environment to study, grow, and reach their potential – helping shape their own future.

Adelaide University is shaping Australia's most flexible, future-focused teaching and learning experience – an experience that puts students at the centre. Students will get to access world-class face-to-face teaching, supported by the latest learning technologies, providing richer, more accessible study options that connect them to educators and peers through active, engaged learning.

Extensive hands-on learning, informed by leading industry professionals, means students leave with the skills professionals are looking for in future colleagues.

The Adelaide Attainment Model

Adelaide University aims to reimagine the teaching and learning experience through the Adelaide Attainment Model, designed for the contemporary learner and offering flexibility and engagement. Key features of the model include:

Stackable degree structures

• Enables multiple entry pathways and multiple transition points
• Offers greater flexibility
• Eases credit transfers between degrees.

Digitally rich learning environment

• Enhances accessibility and flexibility through the latest digital technologies
• Provides instant content delivery, active learning, and collaboration.

Work-integrated learning with industry and community

• Opportunities to engage in real-world industry and professional settings
• Participate in internships, community projects, volunteering, placements or global study experiences
• Connect with professional networks during study.

Common Core courses

Students will be able to select Common Core courses from knowledge areas most valued by employers, including:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Knowledges
• Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking
• Ethical Knowledges
• Intercultural Understanding
• First Nations Knowledges.

Adelaide University is dedicated to helping its students realise their potential and strives to equip them for their future careers. Employability is embedded throughout the students' university experience, providing them with the skills, knowledge and connections they will need to thrive in the global workplace.

Adelaide University's curriculum design means students will graduate as a:  

• Lifelong learner
• Ethical Leader
• Strategic problem solver
• Global citizen
• Resilient thinker
• Trusted communicator.

Adelaide University's career services offer high-quality, inclusive and multi-modal support to help students succeed on their academic journey. Services include:

• Embedding employability in students' learning with real-world, hands-on experiences.
• Delivering tailored careers programs and one-on-one support.
• Connecting students with community networks and industry through industry expos and panels, and industry-partnered learning and mentoring.

At Adelaide University, students benefit from dynamic connections with industry, ensuring their experience is relevant and future-focused. Students develop adaptability and the mindset required to excel in the global workplace of today, while also transforming into well-rounded individuals ready to make a global impact.

Adelaide University students have access to a broad range of student services and facilities to support them throughout their student journey. Services available include:

Academic support

Studying is challenging, but students don't have to manage it alone. The university offers free services to help with students' academic writing, study skills, maths, statistics and academic English.

Services include:

• One-on-one appointments with a learning advisor, in-person or online
• Peer-led study sessions for challenging subjects
• 24/7 online writing feedback through Studiosity
• Self-paced online resources and workshops.

International support services

Adelaide University is dedicated to supporting international students so that they have the best possible experience studying and living in South Australia. The university welcomes students from all over the globe with pre-arrival information and an exciting orientation program that will connect students with their peers, staff and programs.

Wellbeing

The student wellbeing and safety teams provide personal counselling, triage for urgent needs and critical incidents involving students, specialist counselling and care coordination as well as holistic health and wellbeing projects and initiatives.

Counselling services

Adelaide University offers free, confidential and short-term professional counselling to support students with any concerns regarding their study and life, such as adjusting to change, including being in a new culture or new city, managing anxiety, depression and stress, adjusting to academic expectations and time management.

Adelaide University proudly holds the record for the largest campus footprint in South Australia, with seven metropolitan and regional campuses.

The university's campuses offer dynamic learning environments where students can access modern, purpose-built facilities and industry-standard tools and technologies.

Adelaide City Campus

With buildings steeped in history, vibrant galleries and public spaces, Adelaide University's Adelaide City Campus is perfectly positioned on North Terrace in the Central Business District (CBD).

Adelaide City Campus West features cutting-edge creative studios and modern learning spaces, while Adelaide City Campus East is infused with rich architectural history and cultural significance. 

Magill Campus

Tucked away in the picturesque eastern suburbs of Adelaide, just seven kilometres from the city centre, the Magill campus boasts cutting-edge research laboratories and hands-on studios including a dedicated theatre and industry-standard TV and radio station.

Mawson Lakes Campus

Adelaide University's Mawson Lakes Campus is set alongside 114 hectares of wetlands within the world-class Mawson Lakes residential development. The campus is next to Technology Park, which is home to several global space, technology, and defence companies, many of which have partnered with the university.

Waite Campus

The Waite Campus is located in the Adelaide foothills, on a sprawling 184 hectares just seven kilometres from the city centre. The campus is home to several agricultural, horticultural and viticultural industry partners focused on world-class research in a range of areas, including plant biotechnology and natural resource sciences.

Roseworthy Campus

Situated on 1,600 hectares of land, Adelaide University's Roseworthy Campus is located 50 kilometres north of the city. The campus is home to the university's animal and veterinary science research and includes a fully operational livestock farm.

Regional campuses

• Mount Gambier Campus
• Whyalla Campus

Adelaide University offers a range of scholarships of up to 50 per cent for international students. The prestigious scholarships provide financial support to help cover a percentage of tuition fees, with some also contributing towards relocation expenses and living costs.

Scholarships include:

Adelaide Academic Excellence Scholarship (50 per cent)

This scholarship is applicable to international students commencing undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degrees who have achieved outstanding academic performance in their previous studies.

This scholarship is highly competitive with limited places.

Adelaide Emerging Leaders Award (25 per cent)

This award supports international students commencing undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degrees who display leadership qualities through strong academic achievement.

Adelaide Merit Scholarship (15 per cent)

This scholarship supports international students commencing undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degrees, who are committed to their academic achievement.

Adelaide Global Alumni Scholarship (10 per cent)

This scholarship supports international students who have previously studied at Adelaide University, the University of South Australia or the University of Adelaide, and are commencing an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree.

Adelaide Partner Award (10 per cent)

This award supports international students commencing undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degrees.

Students are automatically assessed for most scholarships when applying for an eligible undergraduate or postgraduate degree; however some scholarships have additional application requirements, excluded programs and terms and conditions that must be met in order to be eligible. Students can visit the website to explore the full terms and conditions for each scholarship.

Adelaide University is designing a nation-leading curriculum informed by industry and delivering an exceptional student experience. The university continues to build momentum, releasing over 400 in-demand degrees tailored for the needs of the modern learner.

The full program suite for 2026 comprises programs that provide greater choice for learners, including comprehensive on-campus offerings with optional online learning and research degrees.

Professor Jessica Gallagher, Adelaide University's Deputy Vice Chancellor International and External Engagement, reflects on the university's ambition to offer greater choice for learners.

"Our transformative curriculum has been co-designed with more than 3,000 academics and teaching innovation experts and 200 industry employers to ensure courses are at the cutting-edge and graduates are prepared for jobs of the future.

All students across all programs will study Common Core courses, unique to Adelaide University, in areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Data Knowledges, Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking, Ethical Knowledges, Intercultural Understanding, and First Nations knowledges as part of our distinctive Adelaide Attainment Model.

We have also reimagined research degrees designed to attract global talent and increase accessibility to more diverse candidates through fast-tracked, nested and bridging qualifications across more than 400 research projects."

The Adelaide Academy

The Adelaide Academy provides students with a range of co-curricular, inter-curricular and extracurricular activities across areas such as personal discovery, equity and social change, leadership for the future, innovation, mentoring and work-integrated learning opportunities. 

Embedding First Nations Knowledge

First Nations Knowledge is meaningfully embedded into the curriculum through careful and purposeful collaboration with Indigenous scholars, academics, Elders and Aboriginal Communities and Knowledge Holders.