Study in Adelaide

Adelaide in the State of South Australia

Adelaide has a population of approximately 1.1 million. It was founded in 1836. It’s a rather charming city that’s both a great place to study or visit. Home to beautiful nineteenth century stone architecture, formal parklands and squares, the city has an old-world European “feel”.  However, the city is probably best noted for hosting a number of fantastic cultural events including:

• The Adelaide Festival of Arts
• A variety of comedy festivals
• Dance festivals
• Food and wine expos

Perhaps the richness of South Australia’s cultural scene is due to its fostering of artists, the arts world and colourful social history. For example, South Australia has a long-established community of people with German heritage. There is a lovely and historic South Australian town called Hahndorf that is the oldest German settlement in Australia. Also, many vineyards, farms and wineries in South Australia’s Barossa Valley are home to many Australian German speaking families. The first German to settle in this region during the late 1830s was Johannes Menge. He was a German mineralogist that later became a renowned and accomplished wine maker.

However, if you’re planning to study in Adelaide rather than purely visit as a tourist, the city has a number of leading education Institutions to choose from including:

• The University of Adelaide
• Flinders University
• The University of South Australia
• Carnegie Mellon University
• University College London
• TAFE South Australia   

In fact, Adelaide is known to have one of the country’s leading MBA programmes and International Business Schools (i.e. some of which are affiliated with the European Academy for Business in Society (EABIS), Shell, INSEAD, London Business School and Microsoft).

Moreover, Adelaide is Australia’s Nobel Prize winning capital! In this way, you’ll be rubbing shoulders with some of the finest minds in the country and indeed the world. Former South Australian recipients of this prestigious prize include:

• Dr J Robin Warren in 2005 for Medicine
• Sir Howard Walter Florey in 1945 for Medicine
• Sir (William) Lawrence Bragg in 1915 for Physics

Overall, South Australia is a great place to study. The people of Adelaide enjoy a laidback lifestyle and are very friendly. They are also particularly fond of the outdoors and sailing. So, whether you enjoy a slower paced lifestyle, historical towns, an art-centered - cosmopolitan social scene, or world-class education facilities, Adelaide is a great place to be.