Flinders University

Flinders University, legally The Flinders University of South Australia, is a public research university in Adelaide, South Australia, with about 27,272 students enrolled in 2025.弗林德斯大学，法定名称为南澳大利亚弗林德斯大学，是位于澳大利亚南澳大利亚州阿德莱德的公立研究型大学，2025 年约有 27272 名学生就读。

Founded in 1966 and named after the British navigator Matthew Flinders, who charted the South Australian coast in 1802, it was opened by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 25 March 1966 and became a fully independent university on 1 July 1966.该校创办于 1966 年，以 1802 年测绘南澳大利亚海岸的英国航海家马修·弗林德斯命名，由伊丽莎白王太后于 1966 年 3 月 25 日主持揭幕，并于 1966 年 7 月 1 日起成为完全独立的大学。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 374th, it stands in the 301-325 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 376th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and it falls in the 401-500 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, with OpenAlex crediting it with 67,894 research works.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中它位列第 374，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 301-325 名区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 376，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 401-500 区间；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果为 67894 项。

History

• In 1960 the Premier of South Australia, Thomas Playford, announced that 150 hectares of state-owned land at Burbank, now Bedford Park, would be allocated to the University of Adelaide for the establishment of a second campus.1960 年，南澳大利亚州州长托马斯·普莱福德宣布，将伯班克（今贝德福德公园）的 150 公顷国有土地划拨给阿德莱德大学，用于建设第二校区。

• Planning began in 1961 under the principal-designate Peter Karmel, an economist who insisted that the new campus should operate independently of the North Terrace campus in central Adelaide.规划工作于 1961 年在候任校长、经济学家彼得·卡梅尔主持下展开，他坚持新校区应独立于阿德莱德市中心的北台地校区运作。

• Capital works began in 1962 with a grant of 3.8 million pounds from the Australian Universities Commission, and the architect Geoff Harrison, with Hassell, McConnell and Partners, designed a campus planned to grow to 6,000 students.1962 年，工程在澳大利亚大学委员会 380 万英镑拨款支持下开工，建筑师杰夫·哈里森与哈塞尔、麦康奈尔事务所合作，设计了可容纳 6000 名学生的校园。

• In 1965 the Australian Labor Party won the state election and Frank Walsh became premier, and in August 1965 the university council resolved that the Bedford Park campus would be a separate institution with its own council from 1 July 1966.1965 年，澳大利亚工党赢得州选举，弗兰克·沃尔什出任州长；同年 8 月，校务委员会决议，自 1966 年 7 月 1 日起贝德福德公园校区将作为拥有独立校务委员会的独立机构运作。

• On 17 March 1966 a bill passed by the state parliament officially created The Flinders University of South Australia.1966 年 3 月 17 日，州议会通过法案，正式创设南澳大利亚弗林德斯大学。

• Academic staff wanted the university to be named after a distinguished but uncontroversial figure and settled on Matthew Flinders, and the original coat of arms designed by a professor of fine arts reproduced his ship Investigator and his journal A Voyage to Terra Australis.教职员希望以一位杰出而无争议的人物为大学命名，最终选定马修·弗林德斯；由一位美术教授设计的原校徽中，再现了他的船只（Investigator）与航海记（A Voyage to Terra Australis）。

• Teaching at the Bedford Park campus began in 1966 with 400 students, the economist Peter Karmel served as the first vice-chancellor and Sir Mark Ledingham Mitchell was the first chancellor.贝德福德公园校区于 1966 年开始授课，首批学生 400 人；经济学家彼得·卡梅尔出任首任校长，马克·莱丁厄姆·米切尔爵士出任首任校监。

• In 1967 drama was established as a foundational field of study under the playwright Wal Cherry, who became the university's foundation professor of drama.1967 年，戏剧在剧作家瓦尔·切里主持下成为基础学科，他成为该校首位戏剧学教授。

• The Flinders Drama Centre began offering professional acting and directing programmes in 1971, and its graduates went on to help found groups such as Circus Oz, Redgum and Brink Productions.弗林德斯戏剧中心自 1971 年起开设职业表演与导演课程，其毕业生后来参与创办了（Circus Oz）、（Redgum）与（Brink Productions）等团体。

• Flinders accepted its first undergraduate medical students in 1974 and the Flinders Medical Centre opened the following year, the first Australian arrangement in which a medical school was based inside a public teaching hospital.该校于 1974 年招收首批医学本科生，弗林德斯医药中心于次年启用，这是澳大利亚首次把医学院设于公立教学医院内部的安排。

• In 1990 work began on the biggest building project since the mid-1970s, comprising new buildings for law and commerce, for engineering and for information science and technology.1990 年，自 1970 年代中期以来最大规模的基建工程开工，包括法律与商学、工程学、信息科学与技术三座新楼。

• In 1991, as part of a restructuring of higher education in South Australia, Flinders merged with the adjacent Sturt Campus of the former South Australian College of Advanced Education, and in 1992 a four-faculty structure was adopted.1991 年，作为南澳大利亚高等教育重组的一部分，弗林德斯大学与原南澳大利亚高等教育学院的斯特特校区合并；1992 年，该校采用四学院制。

• In 1998 the Centre for Remote Health, a rural teaching unit based in Alice Springs, was established jointly with the Northern Territory University, now Charles Darwin University.1998 年，该校与北领地大学（今查尔斯·达尔文大学）合作，在艾丽斯泉设立了乡村教学机构偏远地区卫生中心。

• The Bachelor of Creative Arts in screen production was introduced in 2002, and its graduates moved into roles as editors, sound recordists, producers and directors in television and feature films.影视制作方向的创意艺术学士课程于 2002 年开设，其毕业生陆续在电视与剧情片领域担任剪辑、录音、制片与导演。

• In 2011 the Northern Territory Medical Program was established, and in the same year the bacterial genus Flindersiella was named after the university after a strain was found on a tree on the campus grounds.2011 年，北领地医学项目设立；同年，在校园树木上发现的菌株使该细菌菌属被命名为（Flindersiella），以纪念该校。

• In 2015 the university opened a campus at Tonsley, the former site of the Mitsubishi Motors Australia plant in southern Adelaide, housing computer science, engineering and mathematics and the Medical Device Research Institute.2015 年，该校在南阿德莱德原三菱汽车澳大利亚工厂旧址启用汤斯利校区，容纳计算机科学、工程与数学等学科以及医疗器械研究所。

• In 2016 the university marked its 50th anniversary, opened an award-winning student hub and plaza at the centre of the Bedford Park campus and published the strategic plan Making a Difference, which aimed at the top ten in Australia and the top one per cent worldwide.2016 年，该校庆祝建校五十周年，在贝德福德公园校区中心启用获奖的学生活动中心与广场，并发布战略规划（Making a Difference），目标为澳大利亚前十与世界前百分之一。

• On 1 July 2017 the university replaced its two-tier system of four faculties and fourteen schools with a single-tier structure of six colleges.2017 年 7 月 1 日，该校以六学院的单级架构取代四学院、十四系的两级架构。

• In 2019 the university announced an extra 100 million Australian dollars for research and a further 100 million for education over five years, and unveiled the decade-long Flinders Village development beside its hospitals precinct.2019 年，该校宣布五年内追加 1 亿澳元科研投入与另外 1 亿澳元教学投入，并公布在医院片区旁、为期十年的弗林德斯村开发计划。

• The 141 million Australian dollar extension of the Clovelly Park rail line and the new Flinders Station, which serves the main campus, began operation in December 2020.耗资 1.41 亿澳元的克洛弗利公园铁路延长线以及服务主校区的弗林德斯车站，于 2020 年 12 月开始运营。

• In 2022 the newly elected state Labor government under Peter Malinauskas proposed a commission to examine merging South Australia's three public universities, but Flinders chose to remain independent while Adelaide and UniSA merged in 2026.2022 年，彼得·马利纳斯卡斯领导的州工党新政府提议设立委员会研究该州三所公立大学的合并；弗林德斯选择保持独立，阿德莱德大学与南澳大利亚大学则于 2026 年合并。

• In 2024 the ten-storey Health and Medical Research Building, costing 280 million Australian dollars, opened beside the Flinders Medical Centre, and the city campus opened in Festival Tower on North Terrace in February of the same year.2024 年，造价 2.8 亿澳元、共十层的健康与医学研究大楼在弗林德斯医药中心旁启用；同年 2 月，位于北台地（Festival Tower）的市中心校区开放。

Academics

• The university is organised into five colleges, which are Business, Creative Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Education, Psychology and Social Work, Human Sciences and Culture, Medicine and Public Health, and Science and Engineering.该校设五个学院，分别是商业、创意艺术、法律与社会科学学院，教育、心理与社会工作学院，人类科学与文化学院，医学与公共卫生学院，以及科学与工程学院。

• Named research centres include the Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, the Jeff Bleich Centre for Democracy and Disruptive Technologies, named after a former United States ambassador, and the Centre for Social Impact.其具名研究中心包括澳大利亚产业转型研究所、以美国前大使命名的杰夫·布莱希民主与颠覆性技术研究中心，以及社会影响中心。

• The College of Medicine and Public Health runs its clinical teaching inside the Flinders Medical Centre and the adjacent Flinders Private Hospital, an arrangement that began with the first medical students in 1974.医学与公共卫生学院在弗林德斯医药中心及其毗邻的弗林德斯私立医院内开展临床教学，这一安排始于 1974 年招收的首批医学生。

• The university awards degrees in the arts, business, education, engineering, law, medicine, nursing, psychology, science and social work, and it offers the only Bachelor of Archaeology in South Australia.该校可授予人文、商学、教育、工程、法律、医学、护理、心理、科学与社会工作等学位，并提供南澳大利亚州唯一的考古学学士课程。

• As of 2024 the Bachelor of Arts offered 24 majors, alongside language degrees, applied linguistics and degrees in teaching English to speakers of other languages.截至 2024 年，文学士课程提供 24 个主修方向，另设语言类学位、应用语言学，以及对外英语教学方向的学位。

• Enrolment stood at 25,921 students in 2023 and about 27,272 in 2025, of whom 20,109 were domestic students and 7,163 were international students.在校生 2023 年为 25921 人，2025 年约为 27272 人，其中本地学生 20109 人、国际学生 7163 人。

• The university employed about 2,333 full-time equivalent staff in 2025, including 1,015 full-time equivalent academic staff.2025 年，该校约有 2333 个全职等效岗位的教职员，其中学术人员为 1015 个全职等效岗位。

• In 2022 the budget was 516.79 million Australian dollars and the workforce numbered 2,054, made up of 907 full-time academic staff and 1,147 administrative staff.2022 年，学校预算为 5.1679 亿澳元，员工总数 2054 人，其中全职学术人员 907 人、行政人员 1147 人。

• Besides the Medical Device Research Institute at Tonsley, the university maintains the Flinders Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the Centre for Remote Health in Alice Springs.除位于汤斯利的医疗器械研究所外，该校还设有弗林德斯纳米科学与技术研究所，以及位于艾丽斯泉的偏远地区卫生中心。

• The university is affiliated with the Australian Science and Mathematics School, a senior secondary school located on the Bedford Park campus, and with the Helpmann Academy for the performing and visual arts.该校与位于贝德福德公园校区的公立高中澳大利亚科学与数学学校合作，并与表演与视觉艺术领域的赫尔普曼学院保持合作关系。

• International students made up 19.5 per cent of the on-campus student population in 2020, and offshore programmes are delivered mainly in the Asia-Pacific region, including China and Singapore.2020 年，国际学生占在校学生总数的 19.5%，海外课程主要在亚太地区开设，包括中国与新加坡。

• Teaching is also delivered in regional South Australia, in south-western Victoria and in the Northern Territory through clinical placements and rural programmes.该校还通过临床实习与乡村项目，在南澳大利亚州各区域、维多利亚州西南部与北领地开展教学。

• The 2024 Health and Medical Research Building is the new home of the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute and forms part of the wider Flinders Village development.2024 年落成的健康与医学研究大楼是弗林德斯健康与医学研究所的新址，属于弗林德斯村整体开发的一部分。

• Entry is competitive and the institution is accredited by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, Australia's national higher education regulator.该校招生具有竞争性，并接受澳大利亚全国高等教育监管机构高等教育质量与标准署的认证与监管。

• The university offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees on campus and online, and delivers transnational education programmes abroad.该校提供本科、研究生与研究学位课程，涵盖校园与线上两种形式，并在海外开展跨国教育项目。

• Its strongest fields are medicine and public health, nursing, engineering at Tonsley, psychology and the creative arts, and it belongs to the Innovative Research Universities network of seven Australian universities.该校实力最强的领域为医学与公共卫生、护理学、汤斯利的工程学科、心理学与创意艺术；它也是由七所澳大利亚大学组成的创新研究型大学联盟成员。

Campus

• The main campus at Bedford Park covers 156 acres of gardens and native bushland about 12 kilometres south of the Adelaide city centre.主校区位于贝德福德公园，占地 156 英亩，包含花园与原生林地，距阿德莱德市中心约 12 公里。

• The Tonsley campus occupies the former Mitsubishi Motors Australia assembly site in southern Adelaide and houses the School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics.汤斯利校区位于南阿德莱德原三菱汽车澳大利亚装配厂旧址，设有计算机科学、工程与数学学院。

• The city campus opened in February 2024 in Festival Tower on North Terrace, using eight floors and about 11,000 square metres beside Adelaide Railway Station and Parliament House.市中心校区于 2024 年 2 月在（North Terrace）的（Festival Tower）启用，使用八个楼层、约 11000 平方米，毗邻阿德莱德火车站与议会大厦。

• Regional facilities operate at Renmark in the Riverland, at Murray Bridge and at Mount Gambier in South Australia and in south-western Victoria.该校在（Riverland）地区的伦马克、默里布里奇与芒特甘比尔，以及维多利亚州西南部设有区域教学设施。

• In the Northern Territory the university teaches at Alice Springs, Darwin, Katherine, Tennant Creek and Nhulunbuy through the Centre for Remote Health and the Northern Territory Medical Program.在北领地，该校通过偏远地区卫生中心与北领地医学项目，在艾丽斯泉、达尔文、凯瑟琳、滕南特克里克与努伦拜开展教学。

• The Matthew Flinders Theatre, a 425-seat venue within the drama centre, is the university's principal performance space.位于戏剧中心内、设有 425 个座位的马修·弗林德斯剧场，是该校主要的演出场所。

• The university acknowledges that its campuses stand on the traditional lands of Aboriginal peoples including the Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri, Arrernte, Larrakia, Jawoyn and Warumungu.该校承认其各校区位于原住民的传统土地上，这些族群包括（Kaurna）、（Ngarrindjeri）、（Arrernte）、（Larrakia）、（Jawoyn）与（Warumungu）。

• A 141 million Australian dollar rail extension gave the main campus its own station, Flinders Station, in December 2020, linking Bedford Park to the centre of Adelaide.2020 年 12 月，耗资 1.41 亿澳元的铁路延长线使主校区拥有了自己的车站弗林德斯车站，把贝德福德公园与阿德莱德市中心连接起来。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Flinders is placed 374th, and in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 301-325 band.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，弗林德斯大学位列第 374；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 301-325 名区间。

• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is placed 376th, and in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 401-500 band.在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 376；在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 401-500 区间。

• In the 2026 QS ranking, published in 2025, the university stood 387th in the world and 21st in Australia, while the 2026 Times Higher Education ranking placed it in the 301-350 band, tied 21st to 22nd nationally.在 2025 年发布的 2026 年 QS 排名中，该校位列世界第 387、澳大利亚第 21；2026 年泰晤士高等教育排名则将其列为 301-350 区间，国内并列第 21 至 22 位。

• In the 2025 Academic Ranking of World Universities the university held the 401-500 band, tied 21st to 24th nationally, and in the 2025-2026 U.S. News ranking it was tied 434th, 25th nationally.在 2025 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 401-500 区间，国内并列第 21 至 24 位；在 2025 至 2026 年度 US News 排名中并列第 434，国内第 25。

• In the 2024 Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities, which combines the QS, Times Higher Education and Shanghai rankings, Flinders reached 313th in the world and 23rd in Australia.在综合 QS、泰晤士高等教育与上海排名的 2024 年顶尖大学综合排名中，弗林德斯大学位居世界第 313、澳大利亚第 23。

• In the Australian Financial Review Best Universities Ranking 2025 the university was tied 17th among Australian universities, and the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2024 placed it 524th worldwide and 22nd nationally.在《澳大利亚金融评论》2025 年最佳大学排名中，该校并列澳大利亚第 17；2024 年莱顿大学排名则将其列为世界第 524、国内第 22。

• According to OpenAlex the university has produced 67,894 research works, reflecting steady output in medicine, engineering and the sciences.据 OpenAlex 统计，该校已产出 67894 项研究成果，体现出在医学、工程学与自然科学领域稳定的产出。

• In the 2023 Employer Satisfaction Survey, graduates of Flinders recorded an overall employer satisfaction rate of 78 per cent.在 2023 年雇主满意度调查中，弗林德斯大学毕业生的总体雇主满意度为百分之 78。

• In the 2023 Graduate Outcomes Survey the full-time employment rate was 76.6 per cent for undergraduates and 90.3 per cent for postgraduates, with initial full-time salaries of 70,000 and 93,900 Australian dollars respectively.在 2023 年毕业生去向调查中，本科生全职就业率为百分之 76.6，研究生为百分之 90.3；全职起薪分别为 70000 澳元与 93900 澳元。

Student life

• Unlike older Australian universities, Flinders has never adopted a formal Latin motto, and its public identity rests on the coat of arms used when it was founded in 1966, which shows Matthew Flinders' ship Investigator and his journal.与历史更悠久的澳大利亚大学不同，弗林德斯大学从未采用正式的拉丁文校训，其公共标识依托 1966 年建校时启用的校徽，徽中绘有马修·弗林德斯的船只（Investigator）与他航海记的图案。

• Students are represented by the Flinders University Student Association, known as FUSA, which was formerly called the Student Association of Flinders University.学生由弗林德斯大学学生会代表，简称（FUSA），其前身为弗林德斯大学学生协会。

• The student newspaper Empire Times was founded in 1969 by Martin Fabinyi, ceased publication in 2006 after the introduction of voluntary student unionism and resumed in 2013.学生报（Empire Times）由马丁·法比尼于 1969 年创办，在自愿学生会制度推行后于 2006 年停刊，2013 年复刊。

• On-campus accommodation consists of University Hall, which is catered and houses more than 200 residents, and the self-catered Deirdre Jordan Village, which accommodates more than 350.校内住宿包括提供餐饮、可容纳 200 余人居住的大学堂，以及自行做饭、可容纳 350 余人的迪尔德丽·乔丹村。

• Flinders Living runs a free off-campus accommodation service, and the university also partners with The Switch, a student residence in the centre of Adelaide.弗林德斯住宿服务处提供免费的校外住宿信息，该校还与位于阿德莱德市中心的（The Switch）学生公寓建立合作。

• Sporting clubs affiliated with the university cover aikido, athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, fencing, football, hockey, judo, lacrosse, netball, squash, table tennis, volleyball and soccer.该校附属体育俱乐部涵盖合气道、田径、羽毛球、篮球、板球、击剑、足球、曲棍球、柔道、长曲棍球、无板篮球、壁球、乒乓球、排球与英式足球等项目。

• Oasis, a student wellbeing centre at the Bedford Park campus, provides counselling, chaplaincy and social spaces for students.位于贝德福德公园校区的学生福祉中心（Oasis），为学生提供心理咨询、驻校牧师服务与社交空间。

• The biennial Wal Cherry Lecture honours the playwright Wal Cherry, who was the university's foundation professor of drama from 1967 and chaired its theatre management committee from 1968 until 1978.两年一度的瓦尔·切里讲座纪念剧作家瓦尔·切里，他自 1967 年起任该校首位戏剧学教授，并于 1968 年至 1978 年主持学校的剧场管理委员会。

Notable people

• Matthew Flinders, the British navigator and cartographer who surveyed the South Australian coast in 1802, gave the university its name.1802 年测绘南澳大利亚海岸的英国航海家与制图学家马修·弗林德斯，为该校提供了校名。

• Thomas Playford, Premier of South Australia from 1938 to 1965, took the 1960 decision to allocate the Bedford Park land that became the university's main campus.1938 年至 1965 年任南澳大利亚州州长的托马斯·普莱福德，在 1960 年决定划拨后来成为主校区的贝德福德公园土地。

• Peter Karmel, an economist, was the principal-designate of the new campus and became the first vice-chancellor, while Sir Mark Ledingham Mitchell served as the first chancellor.经济学家彼得·卡梅尔是新校区的候任校长并出任首任校长，马克·莱丁厄姆·米切尔爵士则担任首任校监。

• Terence Tao, the Australian mathematician of Chinese descent, took his Bachelor of Science with honours at Flinders in 1991 and his Master of Science in 1992, and received the Fields Medal in 2006 and the Crafoord Prize in 2012.华裔澳大利亚数学家陶哲轩于 1991 年在弗林德斯大学取得荣誉理学学士，1992 年取得理学硕士，并于 2006 年获菲尔兹奖、2012 年获克拉福德奖。

• Julia Gillard studied at Flinders University in the late 1970s and early 1980s and later served as Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013.朱莉娅·吉拉德曾于 1970 年代末与 1980 年代初在弗林德斯大学就读，后于 2010 年至 2013 年出任澳大利亚总理。

• Richard Harris, an anaesthetist and intensive care specialist who graduated from Flinders, was named Australian of the Year in 2023.毕业于弗林德斯大学的麻醉与重症监护专家理查德·哈里斯，于 2023 年当选澳大利亚年度人物。

• Brendan Nelson, a medical graduate of Flinders, was federal Minister for Defence and Leader of the Opposition from 2007 to 2008 and later director of the Australian War Memorial.弗林德斯大学医学毕业生布伦丹·尼尔森曾任联邦国防部长，并于 2007 年至 2008 年任反对党领袖，后出任澳大利亚战争纪念馆馆长。

• Rodney Brooks, who graduated from Flinders in mathematics in 1977, became a leading roboticist, co-founded iRobot and directed the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.1977 年从弗林德斯大学数学专业毕业的罗德尼·布鲁克斯成为著名机器人学家，参与创办（iRobot），并曾执掌麻省理工学院计算机科学与人工智能实验室。

• The actor Xavier Samuel, the actress Noni Hazlehurst and the film director Scott Hicks, whose 1996 film Shine won international awards, are counted among the university's graduates.演员泽维尔·塞缪尔、女演员诺妮·哈兹赫斯特，以及 1996 年凭影片《闪亮的风采》获国际奖项的导演斯科特·希克斯，都被列为该校毕业生。

• Greig Pickhaver, better known as the comedian HG Nelson and a former editor of the student newspaper, and Kate Ellis, a federal minister, also studied at Flinders.以喜剧演员（HG Nelson）之名广为人知、并曾任学生报编辑的格雷格·皮克哈弗，以及联邦部长凯特·埃利斯，也曾就读于弗林德斯大学。