Bond University

Bond University

Coat of Arms of the Bond University
Motto	Forever Learning
Type	Private, not-for-profit
Established	1987
Chancellor	Annabelle Bennett, AO
Vice-Chancellor	Tim Brailsford
Undergraduates	c. 2,900 students
Postgraduates	c. 1,200 students
Location	Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Campus	Suburban
Website	www.bond.edu.au

The Bond University is a private not-for-profit university located in Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

The University was established at the initiative of Alan Bond, the founder and Chairman of Bond Corporation and Harunori Takahashi, President of EIE International. The University's development was funded via a joint venture between Bond Corporation in Australia and the Japanese entity, EIE International. In 1987, the Parliament of Queensland granted Bond University university status via the passage of the Bond University Act. The University commenced teaching in May 1989 with an initial intake of 322 students.

In 1991, EIE acquired Bond Corporation's share of the company development that controlled the land on which the University buildings were constructed and the surrounding development lands.

The campus was acquired by Bond University Ltd in its own right in August 1999.

The Bond University campus was conceived and developed by master planner Daryl Jackson of Jackson Architecture with significant input from Queensland architect Robin Gibson. The signature Arch building was designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki.

The campus features a series of Faculty sandstone buildings centered around man-made Lake Orr. In 2008, the Bond University Mirvac School of Sustainable Development Building was officially opened by the then Prime Minister Hon. Julia Gillard and was the first in Australia to achieve a 6 Star Green Star – Education PILOT Certified Rating for design by the Green Building Council of Australia.

Other recent additions to the campus facilities include:

In 2006, then Prime Minister Hon. John Howard opened the $20 million Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine building (though the first intake of students started in May 2005), housing a complete set of lecture theatres, tutorial rooms, specialised clinical rooms and laboratories. A brand new purpose-built anatomy laboratory was added in 2010.