New South Wales, University of (UNSW), is an institution of higher education in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was incorporated by an act of the Parliament of New South Wales in 1949 as the New South Wales University of Technology. The university was originally intended to specialize in the fields of technology and applied science, but it soon grew into a comprehensive university, offering courses in a variety of areas.
The University of New South Wales occupies a campus in Kensington, a southeastern suburb of Sydney. In 1981, the University College, which included the Australian Defence Force Academy, was established as a UNSW campus in Canberra, the national capital. The university also has a campus in Paddington, near Sydney. The Paddington campus houses the College of Fine Arts, and it has several other smaller teaching and research locations in other areas. The university has other campuses as well. It also operates research centers and is affiliated with several teaching hospitals. The university’s Lowy Cancer Research Centre, east of Sydney in the suburb of Randwick, is one of the largest cancer research centers in the nation.
The university’s website at https://www.unsw.edu.au/ offers additional information.
