Vice-Chancellor:Professor Celia Hammondwww.nd.edu.au |
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Starting from small beginnings in Fremantle of just 35 postgraduate Education students in 1992, The University of Notre Dame Australia now has over 10, 000 students enrolled on its three campuses in Fremantle, Sydney and Broome. Notre Dame is a Catholic university awarding undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in arts, business, education, health sciences, nursing, medicine, physiotherapy, law, science, theology and philosophy. Notre Dame aims to be one of the leading Catholic universities in the world. The University's founding partner was the University of Notre Dame in the United States, one of the world's great Catholic universities, and the benchmark for Notre Dame. The Objects of the University, as stated in an Act of Parliament, serve to define the unique culture, identity and purpose of Notre Dame as an institution committed to free intellectual inquiry. Specific goals are grouped under the four headings of Excellence: in teaching, in scholarship and research, in training for the professions, and in pastoral care. Notre Dame has also assumed a special role in the education of, and service to, the indigenous people of northern Australia. Our Broome Campus is dedicated to reconciliation and, through our Schools and The Nulungu Centre for Indigenous Studies, provides excellence in teaching, research and in the valuing of community based Indigenous knowledge. Students are admitted to Notre Dame through an application made directly to the University. Notre Dame is not a member of either of the tertiary admissions centres in Western Australia or New South Wales (TISC or UAC), but does have close relations with the Curriculum Council of WA and the Board of Studies in NSW. Each student that applies is personally interviewed and their school and community achievements as well as their grades are taken into consideration. The University's three campuses, in Fremantle, Sydney and Broome are strikingly beautiful and very convenient. They provide an ideal setting for a first-class university experience. |
