South Australian School of Art and Crafts
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| Motto | Educating professionals. Creating and applying knowledge. Engaging our communities. |
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| Type | Public research university |
| Established |
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| Endowment | A$607.54 million |
| Chancellor | Jim McDowell |
| Vice-Chancellor | David Lloyd |
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Academic staff
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3,064 (Full-time) |
| Students | 32,000 (2015) |
| Location |
Adelaide, Whyalla and Mount Gambier, SA, Australia 34°55′29.41″S 138°35′44.35″E / 34.9248361°S 138.5956528°ECoordinates: 34°55′29.41″S 138°35′44.35″E / 34.9248361°S 138.5956528°E |
| Organisations | |
| Colours | Blue, White |
| Sports | UniSA Sport |
| Website | www |
| University rankings | |
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| University of South Australia | |
| QS World | 279 |
| THE-WUR World | 201-250 |
| USNWR World | 433= |
| CWTS Leiden World | 255 |
| Australian rankings | |
| QS National | 15 |
| THE-WUR National | 9= |
| CWTS Leiden National | 15 |
| ERA National | 8 |
The University of South Australia (UniSA) is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network of universities, and is the largest university in South Australia with more than 32,000 students.
The university was founded in its current form in 1991 with the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology (1889) and College of Advanced Education (1856), combining more than 150 years of teaching and research history. The legislation to establish and name the new University of South Australia was introduced by the Hon Mike Rann MP, Minister of Employment and Further Education. Under the University's Act, its original mission was "to preserve, extend and disseminate knowledge through teaching, research, scholarship and consultancy, and to provide educational programs that will enhance the diverse cultural life of the wider community".
UniSA is among the world's top universities, ranked within the top 300 universities worldwide by the QS World University Ranking and top 15 nationally in research outcomes. In 2015, it was named as one of the world's best young universities ranked in the world's top 50 under 50 at #25 by Quacarelli Symonds and #38 by Times Higher Education. It has two Adelaide city centre campuses, two Adelaide metropolitan campuses, and two South Australian regional campuses.
UniSA was formed in 1991 by the merger of the South Australian Institute of Technology with three South Australian College of Advanced Education campuses. To the former SACAE campuses of Magill, Salisbury, and Underdale, SAIT added its three campuses at City East, The Levels (now called Mawson Lakes) and Whyalla. The two other SACAE campuses, City (adjacent to University of Adelaide), and Sturt (in Bedford Park, adjacent to Flinders University), were later merged into their nearby universities.
The South Australian School of Arts can trace its history back to 1856 and the work of Charles Hill and H. P. Gill, and connected to the South Australian School of Design. As such, it can claim to be one of the oldest art schools in Australia, and the oldest public art school. The school, now within UniSA's Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, is also known for providing the most prestigious and valuable visual arts scholarship in Australia, the Ann & Gordon Samstag Scholarship.
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