Bond University

Bond is a small single-campus private university at Robina on the Gold Coast, set around a lake five minutes from Robina station and 20 minutes from Surfers Paradise. The campus footprint is compact and pedestrianised, with the John and Alison Kearney Library, the Macquarie Building law block and the Bond Institute of Health and Sport the main anchors. Cohorts are tight, with Bond's full undergraduate population around 5,000 students, so first-year tutorials of 15 to 25 are normal. Bond runs three full semesters a year, so a three-year bachelor degree completes in two calendar years for accelerated students. Accommodation runs through on-campus residences (the Accommodation Centre, including A, B, C and D blocks); most students who don't live on campus live in Robina, Burleigh or Mermaid Beach. The Bond University Student Association runs around 80 clubs and BondCol (the inter-block competition) is a long-running tradition. Bond Sport runs strong national and international elite athlete programmes. The brand is small-cohort private teaching with intensive industry connection across business, law, health, film and architecture.

Semester 1 runs mid-January to mid-April with exams in late April. Semester 2 runs mid-May to mid-August with exams in late August. Semester 3 runs mid-September to mid-December with exams in late December. Each semester is around 13 weeks of teaching and an exam period. Results release follows around two weeks after each semester's exams. Orientation sits in the week before each main semester. Bond also runs short intensive weeks in some programmes (Law and Medicine).