Murdoch University

Murdoch University
Type Public
Established 1975
Endowment AU$40 million
Chancellor David Flanagan[1]
Vice-Chancellor Eeva Leinonen[2]
Students 16,606 (2015)
Location

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Campus Urban
Mascot Victor the Viking
Affiliations Innovative Research Universities
Open Universities Australia
Universities Australia
Website Murdoch University Perth
Murdoch University Dubai site

Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university in 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975. Its name is taken from Sir Walter Murdoch (1874–1970), the Founding Professor of English and former Chancellor of the University of Western Australia.

Murdoch is a verdant university and a member of the Innovative Research Universities.

Campuses

Murdoch University has three Australian campuses: South Street Campus, Rockingham Campus, and Peel Campus.

South Street

The main campus is on South Street, Perth, in the suburb of Murdoch, near the Kwinana Freeway (32°03′58″S 115°50′06″E / 32.066°S 115.835°E / -32.066; 115.835 (Murdoch University, South Street campus)Coordinates: 32°03′58″S 115°50′06″E / 32.066°S 115.835°E / -32.066; 115.835 (Murdoch University, South Street campus)). South Street campus is Australia's geographically largest campus at 2.27 square kilometres (0.88 sq mi),[3] large enough to accommodate the veterinary school and its animal stocks—the only such school in Western Australia.[4] Most of the southern part of the university consists of paddocks of livestock, farms and renewable energy facilities.

The master plan for the campus included an open quadrangle of grass and trees, known as "Bush Court", in the northern part of Murdoch campus, which rises to the highest altitude on campus. The library and first academic buildings flanking this court were designed by R J Ferguson, who also designed several buildings on the University of Western Australia campus. According to the foundation ethos of Murdoch University, there were to be no imposing buildings like the University of Western Australia’s grand, Mediterranean-style Winthrop Hall, with its imposing clock tower. Rather, the architecture adopts a low-slung form redolent of a homestead, with covered walkways suggesting a hybrid veranda or cloister around the bush court. In the smaller courtyards exotic gardens, including a Chinese garden of rocks and stones, contrast with the bush court.[5] The planting and landscaping were the work of Marion Blackwell.

Features of the campus include the Joglo Rahayu (Peace Pavilion), a semi-enclosed pavilion near the Education and Humanities building. A monument to the ongoing association between Murdoch University and Indonesian academic institutions in Java, it acts as storage for the Western Australian Gamelan Orchestra.[6]

Rockingham Campus

The Rockingham Campus is located 38 kilometres (24 mi) south of central Perth in the suburb of Rockingham (32°16′41″S 115°45′04″E / 32.278°S 115.751°E / -32.278; 115.751 (Murdoch University, Rockingham campus)). Opened in 1996, it is co-located with Rockingham Challenger Institute of Technology campus, and features an arts and commerce building. The campus ceased offering undergraduate classes at the end of 2014 due to not enough students attending the campus.[7][8]

Rockingham Regional Campus Community Library

Rockingham Regional Campus Community Library, located at the Rockingham Campus, is a joint venture between the university, the City of Rockingham and Challenger Institute of Technology. Members of all of these groups have free access to library membership.

Membership entitles all patrons to access to Challenger Institute of Technology, university and public library resources at Rockingham.[9]

Mandurah Campus

The Mandurah Campus is located 64 kilometres (40 mi) south of central Perth in the suburb of Greenfields, near the regional centre of Mandurah (32°30′58″S 115°45′22″E / 32.516°S 115.756°E / -32.516; 115.756 (Murdoch University, Mandurah campus)). Opened in 2004, it is home to the School of Health Professions' Bachelor of Nursing (formally Nursing and Midwifery). In Semester 2, 2015 this degree also became available for study at the South Street Campus. Murdoch University shares the campus with Challenger Institute and John Tonkin College (formerly Mandurah Senior College).

Organisation

Schools

Broadwalk, west

There are nine schools at Murdoch University:[10]

Asia Research Centre

The Asia Research Centre, founded in 1991, produces multi-disciplinary research in politics, political economy, modes of governance, social change, and policy making. Its distinctive contribution to the research debate is based on the proposition that these factors have their roots in broader processes of conflict and change in society that are connected to the advance of market economies.[11]

The Centre encompasses researchers from across Murdoch University. It also regularly engages in collaboration with researchers from other universities around the world.[11]

The Centre's Director is Caroline Hughes, Associate Professor of Governance Studies in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.[12]

Student demographics

Murdoch University is home to over 18,500 students including 3,000 international students from over 100 countries.[13]

In 2015, Murdoch University has over 16,000 students with 6,880 of them being students from around the globe.

In November 2008 H.E. Sheikh Nahayan Bin Murbarak Al Nahayan (Minister of Higher Education and Research) opened the Murdoch International Study Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[14]

Academic profile

Rankings

University rankings
Murdoch University
QS World[15] 551-600
THE-WUR World[16] 401-500
Australian rankings
ERA National[17] 23

The 2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings has listed Murdoch University in the top 401-500 universities in the world.[18] The QS World University Rankings placed Murdoch University in the top 551–600 universities in 2013.[19] Webometrics ranked Murdoch University at #753 worldwide.[20]

Reputation

Murdoch University is a research-intensive institution and a member of Innovative Research Universities Australia (IRU Australia).

According to The Australian newspaper ("What makes a good school of journalism"), The Graduate Careers Council of Australia found that Murdoch journalism graduates rated satisfaction with their course at a level within the top five nationally.[21]

Murdoch University is the founder of the ACICIS (Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies) Study Indonesia program, a non-profit consortium of Australian universities that was established in 1994 to coordinate semester-long study programs at partner universities in Yogyakarta and Malang in Indonesia, for Australian university students.[22]

Murdoch University International Study Centres

Murdoch University Dubai

Murdoch University Dubai is a branch campus, established in 2008 in Dubai International Academic City to cater for the expanding Dubai media and financial sectors, and support Dubai's ambitions in providing an ongoing reserve of regional graduates connected to the demands of the region's booming industries.

The campus in Dubai offers degree programs in Commerce, Information Technology and Media and postgraduate programs in Business, Human Resource Management and Education. The Degree programs are fully compatible with those offered in Perth and carry full Australian accreditation as well as being certified by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, Government of Dubai.

Murdoch University International Study Centre Singapore

The Murdoch University International Study Centre (MUISC) in Singapore was officially opened in June 2008 by Australian High Commissioner Mr Miles Kupa.

Notable faculty and alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://search.murdoch.edu.au/?q=David%20Flanagan
  2. ↑ "Murdoch appoints new Vice Chancellor". Murdoch University. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "Take a tour of South Street". Murdoch University. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
  4. ↑ "Open your mind to a career in Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences". Murdoch University. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  5. ↑ Hannah Lewi and Andrew Saniga, 2014' 'Planning for Expansion and Dissent: the a Modern Australian Campus, in edited proceedings, Expansion and Conflict, 13th International Docomomo Conference, Seoul Korea, September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Pendopo". Murdoch University. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  7. ↑ Barnes, Candice (8 August 2014). "Murdoch University to stop teaching at Rockingham campus". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  8. ↑ "Rockingham campus". Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  9. ↑ "ABOUT ROCKINGHAM REGIONAL CAMPUS COMMUNITY LIBRARY". Retrieved 2007-05-12.
  10. ↑ "Schools at Murdoch University". Retrieved 2016-07-07.
  11. 1 2 http://wwwarc.Murdoch.edu.au/about.html
  12. ↑ "Associate Professor Caroline Hughes". Murdoch University. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  13. ↑ "Murdoch University campus guide". Asian Correspondent. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  14. ↑ "History of Murdoch University". Murdoch University. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  15. ↑ "QS World University Rankings 2016/17". Quacquarelli Symonds Limited.
  16. ↑ "World University Rankings 2016-2017". TSL Education Limited.
  17. ↑ "Australian University Rankings". Australian Education Network.
  18. ↑ 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings
  19. ↑ "QS World University Rankings 2013". Top Universities. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  20. ↑ "Murdoch University". Webometrics. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  21. ↑ Jackson, Sally (2006-09-21). "Stock Quotes". The Australian.
  22. ↑ "ACICIS – Study Indonesia". Retrieved 2007-04-05.
  23. ↑ Derriman, Philip (11 October 2000). "Why every stroke counts for Cross". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 40. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  24. ↑ Ong, Justin (3 January 2014). "Singapore's first-ever UFC fighter Royston Wee almost quit MMA". Yahoo Sports Singapore. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
  25. ↑ "Royston Wee UFC Profile". Zuffa. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
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