The University of New South Wales, one of Australia's leading research and teaching universities was established in 1949, University campus is located on a 38-hectare site at Kensington, seven kilometres from the centre of Sydney. University is renowned for the quality of its graduates and its commitment to new and creative approaches to education and research. University has expanded rapidly and now has close to 40,000 students, including more than 7000 international students from over 130 different countries. The University offers more than 300 undergraduate and 600 postgraduate programs, and has developed an extensive network of alumni chapters throughout Asia.

UNSW has a broad disciplinary base, with Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences; Built Environment; Engineering; Law; Medicine and Science, as well as the College of Fine Arts, UNSW@ADFA and the Australian School of Business. It is host to groundbreaking research in fields as diverse as quantum computing, molecular engineering, photovoltaics, robotics, biomedical research, financial markets and design and interactive cinema. It has strong collaborative links with industry and business, consistently performing at the top nationally in Australian Research Council Industry Linkage Grants. University expertise is also regularly sought after by business and government for a wide range of consultancy and training services. It has almost 100 research, teaching program and community centres. Its research centres foster multidisciplinary research and include national centres such as the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Research, ARC Centres of Excellence such as the Centre for Advanced Silicon Photovoltaic’s and Photonics, and UNSW centres such as Brain Sciences UNSW.