University of South Australia

UniSA operates four metropolitan campuses in Adelaide plus a regional site at Mount Gambier and a country footprint at Whyalla. City West sits at the western end of North Terrace and houses business, law, architecture and the Hawke Centre. City East, opposite the Royal Adelaide Hospital, houses health, nursing and pharmacy. Magill, in Adelaide's inner east, houses education, arts and journalism, and Mawson Lakes, 15 kilometres north of the CBD, houses engineering, IT, defence and aviation. From 2026 the institution is merging with The University of Adelaide to form Adelaide University; until full merger, day-to-day teaching continues across UniSA campuses. UniSA has a small but growing on- campus residential footprint at Mawson Lakes; most students live off-campus and travel by train, bus or the O-Bahn busway. The USASA student association runs more than 90 clubs and the Mawson Lakes campus has a strong defence and aerospace industry connection through its proximity to the Edinburgh Defence Precinct. The brand is career-focused practice-led learning with Work Integrated Learning embedded across most degrees.

Study Period 2 (semester one) runs late February to early June with a non-teaching week in mid-April and exams in early to mid- June. Study Period 5 (semester two) runs late July to early November with a non-teaching week in late September and exams in early November. Results release follows in early July and mid- December. UniSA also runs five-week intensive study periods through the year for some online and postgraduate units, and a summer session runs December to February. Orientation week sits in the week before each main study period.