UNSW Sydney

The Kensington campus sits between Randwick Racecourse, Centennial Park and the eastern suburbs beach corridor, with the upper campus Mathews Quad and library precinct at the centre. A second campus at Paddington hosts the Art and Design school, and the Botany Street precinct holds biomedical research. UNSW moved to a trimester calendar branded UNSW3+ in 2019, with three ten-week terms a year plus a flexible summer term, so the rhythm of the year is more compressed than the traditional Australian semester pattern. Accommodation runs through the on-campus colleges and residences (New College, Shalom College, International House, Goldstein, Basser, Philip Baxter, Fig Tree Hall, UNSW Hall) and a large commuter cohort in Kingsford, Kensington, Maroubra and along the L2/L3 light rail back to the CBD. Arc UNSW runs more than 300 clubs and the student precinct is dense, with the Roundhouse a long-running campus venue. The light rail opened in 2019 and is the main link to Central, supplemented by the 891 and 400 bus network. Beach culture is real: Coogee is a 15-minute walk and Maroubra a short bus.

UNSW runs the UNSW3+ trimester calendar. Term one starts in mid- February and ends in early May, term two runs early June to late August, and term three runs mid-September to early December. Each term has a flexibility week and a final exam period. A shorter summer term runs January to February for catch-up and acceleration. Results release follows about three weeks after each term's exams. Orientation week (O-Week) precedes term one.