We are a university for the future – focused on making a transformative impact in our world – and yours. Adelaide University is built on the legacies of the University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide with an ambition that combines our strengths to unlock a new for-purpose university that will create brighter futures for contemporary learners and global citizens, along with future-making research of scale and focus that shapes the shifts our society needs.
Education and research can empower whole-of-communities, accelerating the path to betterment through cohesion and prosperity. Adelaide University will rise to the occasion by delivering nation-leading curriculum and exceptional student experience, pursuing greater educational equality, expanding research partnerships and outcomes, aligning with industry, and generating significant resource.
We are creating Australia’s new major university with a strategic direction that will optimise and pursue our ambitions on the global stage as a member of the prestigious and research-intensive Group of Eight (Go8).
Through meaningful partnerships with end-users, anchored in educational and research excellence, Adelaide University will make a measurable impact through:
- addressing intergenerational disadvantage
- creative and cultural industries
- health and wellbeing
- sustainable futures
- future workforce; and
- sovereign capability.
Our ambition is to be world leading and world referenced through our actions and through the success and impact of our students, staff, researchers, partners and alumni community.
We fervently believe in the power of education and research to create vibrant communities and to address the multigenerational challenges before us. Adelaide University will drive a transformative agenda as a global powerhouse for the delivery of excellence and equity.
