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North Terrace Campus

The University of Adelaide's main campus is the site of most teaching and research facilities. Set in the cultural heart of the city, the North Terrace campus offers excellence in its educational and social facilities.

Established in 1874, the North Terrace Campus is home to the Schools of Chemistry & Physics and Molecular & Biological Sciences, as well as part of the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences.

Roseworthy Campus

Australia's first agricultural college was established at Roseworthy, 50km north of Adelaide in 1883. Since its establishment, the Australian agricultural industry has recognised Roseworthy Agricultural College as the premier teaching facility for the sector and close partnerships with industry and government research groups have always been a feature of Roseworthy's development.

In 1991, the Roseworthy Agricultural College joined forces with the University of Adelaide's Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. In 2002, the Faculty of ANRS and Faculty of Science were merged into the Faculty of Sciences.

Most of the best-known names in agriculture and wine are graduates of the Roseworthy campus. While viticulture and oenology are now based at the Waite, the original connection and proud tradition live on in the name of the Hickinbotham Roseworthy Wine Science Laboratory at Waite. In its turn, Roseworthy has now become the key campus for research and education in animal production and dryland agriculture.

Roseworthy is continuing its pioneering role with a new strategic vision for the new century that focuses on combining and integrating resources with campus partners and rural industries to develop the campus as the hub of information transfer, communication, learning and new technologies for the rural community. This vision is already fact with the establishment of two recent ventures - the Livestock Systems Alliance and the Roseworthy Information Centre.

Waite Campus

In 1922 Peter Waite, a pastoralist and philanthropist, bequeathed his property at Urrbrae to the University of Adelaide for the establishment of an agricultural research institute. Waite believed such a facility was necessary to nourish the talent and potential of Australians in the management of food and food and fibre resources.

The Waite Agricultural Research Institute was established in 1924 on the property. From the outset, 'the Waite', as it came to be known, focused on research and teaching for dryland conditions and was the site of the earliest breakthroughs in soil science and pest management that underpinned Australian agricultural development. Cooperative research has always been a feature of the Waite campus and the precinct is now also home to an expanding range of campus partners and cooperative research centres.

With almost two thirds of the world's landmass featuring similar environments, the Waite campus soon began to export both knowledge and skills to other countries. It is still recognised as a centre for excellence in agricultural and natural resource management and is equally renowned for first class research and education in emerging biotechnologies.