UNSW Sydney

The University of New South Wales, known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university in Kensington, Sydney, and the largest university in New South Wales.新南威尔士大学（University of New South Wales），简称 UNSW，是一所位于悉尼肯辛顿的公立研究型大学，也是新南威尔士州规模最大的大学。

Founded in 1949 as a technological university and expanded into a comprehensive institution in 1958, it is known for engineering and business and ranks nineteenth in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校于 1949 年以科技大学的身份创办，1958 年扩展为综合型大学，以工程与商学著称，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第十九。

History

• UNSW was established on 1 July 1949 under the New South Wales University of Technology Act, as the second public university in the Sydney area after the University of Sydney.学校依《新南威尔士理工大学法》于 1949 年 7 月 1 日成立，是继悉尼大学之后悉尼地区的第二所公立大学。

• It was founded at Kensington to teach civil, electrical, mechanical and mining engineering, and it concentrated at first on engineering and the fundamental sciences.学校创办于肯辛顿，开设土木、电气、机械与采矿工程课程，起初集中于工程学与基础科学。

• The university's origins have been traced to the Sydney Technical College and, earlier, to the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts founded in 1843.学校的渊源可上溯至悉尼技术学院，以及更早于 1843 年创立的悉尼机械学院。

• In 1958 the institution was renamed the University of New South Wales and broadened its teaching towards medicine and the arts.1958 年，学校更名为新南威尔士大学，并把教学范围扩展至医学与文科。

• A faculty of arts and social sciences was created in 1960, a medical school followed in 1961 and a law school in 1971.文学与社会科学学院于 1960 年设立，医学院随后于 1961 年成立，法学院则于 1971 年成立。

• The university's early growth was closely tied to its vice-chancellor Philip Baxter, whose ambitious and sometimes controversial vision raised it to the top rank of Australian universities.学校早期的成长与其校长菲利普·巴克斯特密切相关，他雄心勃勃且时有争议的构想把学校推上澳大利亚大学的顶尖行列。

• Later vice-chancellors consolidated this growth and, in the 1980s, the university turned to partnerships with industry to supplement shrinking public funding.其后的历任校长巩固了这一发展；到二十世纪八十年代，面对公共经费收紧，学校转向与产业界合作以补足资金。

• UNSW absorbed the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra and expanded its Sydney campuses, including an art and design campus at Paddington.学校并入位于堪培拉的澳大利亚国防学院，并扩展了悉尼的多个校区，其中包括帕丁顿的艺术与设计校区。

Academics

• UNSW is organised into faculties covering arts, design and architecture, business, engineering, law and justice, medicine and health, and science, together with a campus at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra.学校分设文学设计与建筑、商学、工程、法律与司法、医学与健康、理学等学院，并在堪培拉的澳大利亚国防学院设有校区。

• It has the largest engineering faculty in Australia, teaching civil and environmental, electrical and telecommunications, computer science, mechanical and manufacturing, chemical, mining and petroleum engineering.学校拥有澳大利亚规模最大的工程学院，开设土木与环境、电子与通信、计算机科学、机械与制造、化学、采矿与石油工程等方向。

• The university is known for research in photovoltaics, and its engineering school has been a training ground for a large share of the country's leading engineers.学校以光伏研究闻名，其工学院为澳大利亚众多顶尖工程师提供了培养基地。

• The UNSW Business School, formed from the Australian Graduate School of Management, is one of the largest in the country and offers accredited MBA and actuarial programmes.新南威尔士大学商学院由澳大利亚管理研究院整合而来，是该国规模最大的商学院之一，开设获认证的工商管理硕士与精算课程。

• As of 2024 the university had 82,272 enrolled students, together with some 3,610 academic and 4,708 administrative staff.截至 2024 年，学校注册学生为 82272 人，另有约 3610 名学术人员与 4708 名行政人员。

• Its medical faculty teaches at major Sydney hospitals, and the university is strong in biomedical science, defence research and environmental sustainability.其医学院在悉尼的主要医院开展教学，学校在生物医学、国防研究与环境可持续发展方面实力突出。

• UNSW holds accreditation from the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency and is a member of the Group of Eight and Universitas 21.学校获澳大利亚高等教育质量与标准署认证，并是八校联盟与 Universitas 21 的成员。

• Its budget was 3.37 billion Australian dollars in 2025, and a substantial share of its income comes from non-government sources.学校 2025 年预算为 33.7 亿澳元，其中相当比例的收入来自非政府渠道。

Campus

• The main campus at Kensington covers about 38 hectares in south-eastern Sydney, a short distance from the city centre and the coast.主校区位于肯辛顿，占地约 38 公顷，坐落在悉尼东南部，距市中心与海岸都不远。

• It is an urban campus with parkland, and its Quadrangle building, library lawn and main walkway are among its best-known features.这是一座带有园林绿地的城市型校区，其中的四方庭院建筑、图书馆草坪与主干道是最知名的景观。

• UNSW also has an art and design campus at Paddington and, in Canberra, the campus of the Australian Defence Force Academy.学校还在帕丁顿设有艺术与设计校区，并在堪培拉设有澳大利亚国防学院校区。

• The university's coat of arms, granted by the College of Arms in 1952, shows a lion of England surrounded by stars of the Southern Cross, with a book above symbolising knowledge.学校的校徽于 1952 年获英国纹章院授予，图案为被南十字星座群星环绕的英格兰狮，上方一本象征知识的书。

• Students have access to the university's libraries, sports grounds and the surrounding Randwick and Kensington districts.学生可使用学校的图书馆、运动场以及周边的兰德威克与肯辛顿街区。

• The campus is served by light rail, buses and bicycle routes, and is close to Coogee and Bondi beaches.校园由轻轨、巴士与自行车道连接，并邻近库吉与邦迪海滩。

Reputation

• UNSW ranks nineteenth in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, joint 75th in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 33rd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.新南威尔士大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第十九，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名并列第 75，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 33。^[1]

• It is currently the highest ranked Australian university in the QS tables, ahead of the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne.在 QS 榜单中，它目前是排名最高的澳大利亚大学，位次在悉尼大学与墨尔本大学之前。

• The university is sometimes described as the MIT of the southern hemisphere, a reference to its engineering and applied science tradition.学校有时被称为南半球的麻省理工学院，这一说法源自其工程与应用科学的传统。

• In the 2021 QS subject rankings it was placed among the world's top twenty for mining and mineral engineering, civil and structural engineering and law.在 2021 年 QS 学科排名中，其采矿与矿物工程、土木与结构工程及法律等学科位居全球前二十。

• Its business school is among the strongest in Australia, and the university has produced more billionaires among its alumni than any other Australian university.其商学院在澳大利亚名列前茅，学校培养的亿万富翁校友数量多于澳大利亚其他任何大学。

• Its alumni include a prime minister of Australia and a Turing Award winner in computer science.其校友中包括澳大利亚的一位总理，以及一位计算机科学领域的图灵奖得主。

• The university's research strengths in solar energy and materials science have contributed to Australia's renewable energy industry.学校在太阳能与材料科学方面的研究实力，为澳大利亚的可再生能源产业做出了贡献。

Student life

• UNSW has a large student body drawn from Australia and more than a hundred other countries, giving its campus a strongly international character.学校学生众多，来自澳大利亚以及一百多个其他国家，使校园具有浓厚的国际化色彩。

• Students run hundreds of clubs and societies covering sport, culture, religion, academic disciplines and community service.学生运营数百个社团，涵盖体育、文化、宗教、学术与社区服务。

• The university's student organisation provides support services and organises events such as orientation week and the annual cultural festivals.学生会提供各类支持服务，并组织迎新周与年度文化节等活动。

• Sporting facilities and clubs are well developed, and UNSW competes in Australian university sport competitions.学校的体育设施与俱乐部体系完善，并参加澳大利亚的大学体育赛事。

• The Kensington campus is close to Sydney's beaches and to the city, allowing students to combine study with the city's cultural and outdoor life.肯辛顿校区邻近悉尼的海滩与市区，学生可以把学业与城市的文化及户外生活结合起来。

• The university is active in indigenous engagement and acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which its campuses stand.学校积极参与原住民事务，并承认其校区所在土地的传统守护者。

Notable people

• Scott Morrison, the thirtieth prime minister of Australia, studied at UNSW, and the university has educated many federal and state politicians.澳大利亚第三十任总理斯科特·莫里森曾就读于新南威尔士大学，学校还培养了众多联邦与州政界人士。

• Raj Reddy, a pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence, won the Turing Award and graduated from the university's engineering faculty.计算机科学与人工智能的先驱拉吉·瑞迪获得图灵奖，并毕业于该校工学院。

• Shi Zhengrong, who founded the solar company Suntech, studied at UNSW, where the university's photovoltaic research helped launch the industry.创办太阳能企业尚德的施正荣曾在新南威尔士大学求学，学校的太阳能光伏研究推动了这一产业的发展。

• The architect Glenn Murcutt, the first Australian to win the Pritzker Prize, is associated with the university's built environment faculty.首位获得普利兹克奖的澳大利亚建筑师格伦·马库特，与学校的建筑环境学院相关。

• The university has produced leaders in engineering, medicine, law, business and the public service in Australia and internationally.学校在澳大利亚及国际上培养出工程、医学、法律、商业与公共服务领域的众多领导者。

• Its graduates are prominent in Australian industry and in the technology firms of Sydney and beyond.其毕业生在澳大利亚产业界以及悉尼内外的科技企业中表现突出。