The University of Adelaide (casually Adelaide University or Adelaide Uni) is a state funded college in Adelaide, South Australia. Set up in 1874, it is the third most seasoned college in Australia. It is reliably positioned in the main 1% of colleges around the world. It is additionally connected with five Nobel laureates, 104 Rhodes researchers and is an individual from the Group of Eight, and also the Sandstone Universities.
Its fundamental grounds is on North Terrace in the Adelaide downtown area, nearby the Art Gallery of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and the State Library of South Australia. The college has five grounds all through the state: North Terrace; Roseworthy College at Roseworthy; The Waite Institute at Urrbrae; Thebarton; and the National Wine Center in the Adelaide Park Lands. It has a 6th grounds, the Ngee Ann – Adelaide Education Center (NAAEC), in Singapore.
The twentieth Vice-Chancellor of the University is Professor Warren Bebbington, who was once the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (University Affairs) at the University of Melbourne. He started his position in July 2012.
The University of Adelaide was set up on 6 November 1874 after a £20,000 gift by grazier and copper excavator Walter Watson Hughes, alongside backing and gifts from Thomas Elder.
The principal Chancellor was Sir Richard Hanson and the first bad habit chancellor was Dr Augustus Short. The primary degree offered was the Bachelor of Arts and the college began educating in March 1876. John Davidson was the first Hughes teacher of English writing and mental and moral reasoning.
The University has a long history of championing the privileges of ladies in advanced education. It was the second University in the English-talking world (after the University of London, 1878) to concede ladies on equivalent terms with men (1881), however ladies considered close by men from the initiation of classes in 1876, and were just as qualified for every single scholarly prize and respects. Its first female graduate was Edith Emily Dornwell, who was additionally the first individual in Australia to get the level of Bachelor of Science (BSc., 1885). The college additionally graduated Australia's first female specialist Laura Fowler (MB, 1891). Ruby Davy (B. Mus., 1907; D. Mus., 1918) was the first Australian lady to get a doctorate in music. The University was additionally the first to choose a lady to a University Council in Australia, Helen Mayo (MBBS, 190