Flinders University
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| Motto | "Inspiring Achievement" |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1966 |
| Chancellor | Stephen Gerlach AM |
| Vice-Chancellor | Colin Stirling |
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Administrative staff
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1129 (2013) |
| Students | 26,078 (2014) |
| Location |
Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia 35°01′15″S 138°34′22″E / 35.020819°S 138.57275°E |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Organisations | IRU Australia |
| Website | www.flinders.edu.au |
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| University rankings | |
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| Flinders University | |
| QS World | 551-600 |
| THE-WUR World | 251-300 |
| ARWU World | 300-400 |
| CWTS Leiden World | 527 |
| Australian rankings | |
| CWTS Leiden National | 18 |
| ERA National | 28 |
Flinders University is a public university in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the South Australian coastline in the early 19th century.
Flinders is a verdant university and a member of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) Group and ranks in the 10-16 bracket in Australia and 36th in the world of those established less than 50 years. Academically, the university pioneered a cross-disciplinary approach to education, and its faculties of medicine and the humanities are ranked among the nation's top 10.
The university is ranked within the world's top 400 institutions in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The latest Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top universities ranks Flinders University in the 251 to 300 bracket.
By the late 1950s, the University of Adelaide's North Terrace campus was approaching capacity. In 1960, Premier Thomas Playford announced that 150 hectares (370 acres) of state government-owned land in Burbank (now Bedford Park) would be allocated to the University of Adelaide for the establishment of a second campus.
Planning began in 1961. The principal-designate of the new campus, economist and professor Peter Karmel, was adamant that the new campus should operate independently from the North Terrace campus. He hoped that the Bedford Park campus would be free to innovate and not be bound by tradition.
Capital works began in 1962 with a grant of ₤3.8 million from the Australian Universities Commission. Architect Geoff Harrison, in conjunction with architectural firm Hassell, McConnell and Partners, designed a new university that, with future expansions, could eventually accommodate up to 6000 students.
In 1965, the Australian Labor Party won the state election and Frank Walsh became premier. The ALP wished to break up the University of Adelaide's hegemony over tertiary education in the state, and announced that they intended the Bedford Park campus to be an independent institution.
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