The University of Sydney ( Sydney University) is the oldest university in Australia. The university’s reputation has been built on the breadth of disciplines that it offers to students and the quality and impact of its research.The Sydney University has a number of small special-purpose satellite campuses obtained from other organisations over the past 20 years, however the main campus is centred on the large Oxbridge-inspired grounds which spread across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the south-western outskirts of the Sydney CBD.
The University of Sydney comprises sixteen faculties:
* Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
* Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
* Faculty of Arts
* Faculty of Dentistry
* Faculty of Economics and Business
* Faculty of Education and Social Work
* Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies
* Faculty of Fine Arts
* Faculty of Health Sciences
* Sydney Law School
* Sydney Medical School
* Faculty of Music
* Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
* Faculty of Pharmacy
* Faculty of Science
* Faculty of Veterinary Science
In 2010, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed the University of Sydney 71st in the world and 3rd in Australia behind the University of Melbourne (36th) and the Australian National University (43rd). The university fell from its position of joint 36th with Ecole Polytechnique and the University of Melbourne in the 2009 THE-QS World University Rankings (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings). On the ARWU rankings, University of Sydney is placed within the top 10 in the Asia Pacific. According to Reuter's recent research publication, University of Sydney was the biggest non-government research institute in the Australia-New Zealand (Oceania) region. Apart from that, outside the Australian government's research arm, the university has consistently been the largest recipient of research grants in the country over the last 10 years, particularly in medicine.
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