University of New England

UNE was the first Australian university outside a capital city, established in Armidale in the New England tablelands on Anaiwan and Kamilaroi Country in 1954. The Armidale campus sits 6 kilometres west of the town centre on 75 hectares of parkland, with the Booloominbah heritage homestead, the Dixson Library and the Education Pavilion on site. UNE has been a national leader in distance education since the 1950s, and today the majority of its 23,000 students study online, with on-campus undergraduates a small minority. UNE Sydney runs as a satellite campus in Parramatta. Accommodation runs through eight on-campus residential colleges, including Earle Page College, Mary White, Robb, Wright, Drummond and Smith, with strong residential cohort traditions and inter- college sport. The University of New England Students' Association runs around 50 clubs. Most on-campus students live in the colleges or shared housing in central Armidale. The brand is flexible regional and online education with a particularly strong agriculture, rural science and education cohort, plus a joint medical programme with the University of Newcastle.

UNE runs four trimesters across the year. Trimester 1 runs late February to early June, Trimester 2 runs early July to mid- October, and Trimester 3 runs late October to mid-February for short and intensive offerings. Most full-time on-campus students enrol across Trimester 1 and Trimester 2. UNE also offers month- long intensive blocks and intensive schools (residential weeks on campus) for online students. Results release follows around three weeks after each trimester. Orientation sits in the week before each main trimester.