Curtin University of Technology is Western Australia's largest university with over 31,000 students, nearly 11,000 of those offshore and onshore international students and nearly 1000 research students. We take our name from the former Prime Minister of Australia from 1941-1945, John Curtin.
Edith Cowan University- originates back to 1902 when it began as a teaching college. Today it is Western Australia's second largest university with approximately 23,000 students, including in excess of 3,000 students originating from more than 80 countries. Edith Cowan University is located in Perth, Western Australia, a gateway to Asia.
Murdoch University is set to build a world-class medical research facility on campus later this year, following a $19.5 million Federal Budget allocation.
Murdoch University Vice Chancellor John Yovich welcomed the funding, which will be put towards the construction of the dedicated research facility to be known as the Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases (IIID).
The Notre Dame University was founded on 21 December, 1989 through an Act of the Western Australian Parliament and a Canonical statute from the Archdiocese of Perth, enacted on 2 July, 1991. Since classes commenced in 1992, Notre Dame has rapidly gained a reputation for innovation and excellence in higher education. Student numbers have grown from a handful in 1992 to over 5000 in 2006.
The University of Western Australia opened in 1913 in wooden buildings in Irwin Street, Perth. It moved to the present site in 1930.
The University was established under and is governed by the University of Western Australia. The Act provides for the control and management of the University to be the responsibility of the Senate, and gives it the authority, amongst other things, to make statutes, regulations and by-laws, details of which are contained in the University Calendar.
