Campus locations

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Our biggest campus is 72 hectares of state-of-the-art teaching and learning technology, including six libraries, art galleries, historical museums, perfectly manicured lawns, and the following faculties and schools:

• Architecture, Design and Planning
• Arts and Social Sciences
• Business
• Engineering
• Law
• Medicine and Health
• Science

You’ll also find the following centres, institutes and facilities:

• Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders
• Centre for Continuing Education
• Centre for English Teaching
• Charles Perkins Centre
• China Studies Centre
• Confucius Institute
• Institute of Agriculture
• Institute for Teaching and Learning
• Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies
• Seymour Centre
• Sydney Uni Sport & Fitness
• Sydney University Postgraduate Representation Association (SUPRA)
• Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
• United States Studies Centre
• University of Sydney Union (USU)


Located in Lidcombe, the heart of Sydney’s sprawling greater west, Cumberland campus is home to the Sydney School of Health Sciences.

Campus facilities include a large health sciences library, specialized laboratories, health clinics and state-of-the-art sports science education facilities.

The Cumberland Student Guild manages all non-academic services on campus, including a food court, bookstore and shopping outlets.

The University intends to move the Sydney School of Health Sciences from its current location in Cumberland to new facilities on the Camperdown/Darlington campus in 2021. Health Sciences will be located at the Susan Wakil Health building – find out more about how we are transforming our campuses.

Veterinary Science and Agriculture students and researchers can access an extensive network of farms and research units on Camden campus. Camden is in the Sydney metropolis and part of the growth area in Sydney's south western suburbs.

Farms and research facilities that make up our Camden campus include:

• The University Veterinary Teaching Hospital
• The Livestock Veterinary Teaching and Research Unit
• Plant Breeding Institute
• May and Mt Hunter Farms
• E.J. Holtsbaum Agricultural Research Station
• Badgery’s Creek: McGarvie Smith Farm, Fleurs
• Westwood Farm
• John B Pye, Wolverton and Coates Park Farms
• Corstorphine: Corstorphine Farm, Uni park and Moffat/Cannons

Download the Veterinary Science map of Camden Campus

Located in Camperdown just a short walk from our main Camperdown/Darlington Campus, Mallett Street Campus is home to:

• Sydney Nursing School,
• the Brain and Mind Centre, and
• NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre.

The University intends to move the Sydney Nursing School from its current location at Mallett Street to new facilities on the Camperdown/Darlington Campus in 2021. Nursing will be located at the Susan Wakil Health Building – find out more about how we are transforming our campuses.

Our visual arts college is based on scenic Rozelle campus, a beautiful collection of sandstone buildings set on spacious, green grounds near the harbourside.

Studios are purpose-built for creating contemporary arts in a range of media, including ceramics, film, digital art, jewellery and object design, painting, print media, photo media and sculpture.

The University intends to move the Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) from its current location in Rozelle to new facilities on the Camperdown/Darlington campus in 2020 as part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. This move will allow visual art students to capitalise on the proximity to a broader range of disciplines and facilities. Students commencing their degree at SCA in 2018 and 2019 will begin their studies at Rozelle but will move to Camperdown in due course. Please visit the SCA website for more information.

In addition to the Edward Ford Building on the main campus, the Sydney Medical School has staff based in different teaching hospitals and specialist clinics across NSW.

Each clinical school has its own amenities and varying parking and transport options.

• Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health
• Central Clinical School
• Concord Clinical School
• Nepean Clinical School
• Northern Clinical School
• School of Rural Health (Dubbo and Orange)
• University Centre for Rural Health (Northern Rivers)
• Sydney Adventist Hospital Clinical School
• The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School
• University Centre for Rural Health
• Westmead Clinical School

The Surry Hills Campus houses the main offices of the Sydney Dental School, the Dentistry Library, teaching, seminar and recreational facilities and the extensive clinical facilities of the Sydney Dental Hospital. 

The University of Sydney Business School and Sydney Law School run some classes here.

Located in the Royal Botanic Gardens near the Sydney Opera House, ‘The Con’ is a world-leading music school boasting five concert halls, recording studios, and performance spaces featuring the latest in acoustic technology.

The campus runs a bustling calendar of concerts and events open to the public.

Visit the Sydney Conservatorium of Music website for more information.

The Westmead Precinct is the centre of transformational health services, research and education in western Sydney, internationally recognised for its depth and scale of expertise.

Westmead is home to several leading health and medical service providers and research institutes, including the University's own institutes:

• Charles Perkins Centre 
• Brain and Mind Centre 
• Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Disease and Biosecurity 
• Westmead Applied Research Centre

Our Westmead campus is home to around 2000 students who are conducting study, research or clinical placements at Westmead and close to 1000 staff members and affiliates. Faculties and schools with a presence at Westmead include:

• Faculty of Medicine and Health
• Sydney Dental School
• Sydney Medical School (The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School)
• Sydney Medical School (Westmead Clinical School)
• School of Medical Sciences
• Sydney Nursing School
• Sydney School of Public Health
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
• Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
• Faculty of Engineering

To further embed our staff and students across the Westmead Precinct, we have invested around $80 million to date in infrastructure, upgrades to education facilities and academic programs and initiatives. In 2020, the University will partner with Westmead Hospital and The Children’s Hospital at Westmead to launch the new Central Acute Services Building, a key facility for increasing integration with our partners and supporting our work to embed research and teaching across the precinct.

Our Faculty of Science oversees the world’s only research station licensed to facilitate teaching and research on the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef.

The site spans four hectares of the southern end of the reef, and it remains almost completely free of human disruption or influence.

The research station has helped facilitate breakthroughs in climate change, geology and marine observation.

Find out how you can arrange a field trip to the Great Barrier Reef.