The University of Newcastle (UoN), casually known as Newcastle University, an Australian state funded college set up in 1965, has its essential grounds in Callaghan, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales. The college likewise works grounds in Ourimbah, Port Macquarie, Singapore and the focal business locale of Newcastle and Sydney.
Verifiably, the University of Newcastle Medical School has actualized the issue based learning framework for its undergrad Bachelor of Medicine project – a framework later ordered for use by the Australian Medical Council all through Australia. It spearheaded utilization of the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test (UMAT) in the mid 1990s. UMAT has subsequent to been acknowledged broadly by diverse medicinal schools crosswise over Australia as an extra choice criteria.
The University of Newcastle is an individual from Universities Australia and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
In 2015 Times Higher Education positioned the University of Newcastle number 2 in Australia and number 30 on the planet for colleges under 50 years old.
The most punctual inceptions of the present-day University of Newcastle can be followed to the Newcastle Teachers College (est. 1949) and Newcastle University College (NUC, est. 1951). NUC was made as a branch of the New South Wales University of Technology (now known as the University of New South Wales) and was co-situated with the Newcastle Technical College at Tighes Hill. At the season of its foundation, NUC had only five full-time understudies and study was confined to building, arithmetic and science. All through the 1950s and 1960s, Newcastle inhabitants battled for NUC to be re-constituted as a college in its own privilege. The crusade was at last effective, with the University of Newcastle being built up as a self-governing establishment on 1 January 1965 by gubernatorial announcement under the University of Newcastle Act 1964 (NSW). The new college was allowed a heraldic escutcheon by the College of Arms in London, an occasion seen by numerous in the group as connoting the new organization's freedom. In 1966, the University migrated from Tighes Hill to a generally undeveloped bushland site in Shortland. As enrolments developed, the University left on a noteworthy building program and redeveloped the Shortland site into the Callaghan grounds, named for Sir Bede Callaghan, establishment individual from the University chamber and chancellor from 1977 to 198