The Universities & Environs
The University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide was founded in 1874 and is South Australia's
oldest university. It enjoys an outstanding national and international reputation
in both teaching and research in many fields of study.
Among the University's many distinguished graduates are Nobel
prize winner Lord Florey and Dame Roma Mitchell, a graduate of the Law
School, Australia's first female QC, judge, University Chancellor and
Governor of South Australia.
With a student population of around 16,000, including more than
2,000 students from 70 countries. The University of Adelaide consists
of four campuses. The main campus includes the Law School, along with
most teaching departments and other central services and is located in
the cultural, intellectual and commercial heart of the city of
Adelaide. It is adjacent to the State Library, South Australian
Museum, South Australian Art Gallery, Festival Theatre, Zoological
Gardens and Botanical Gardens, in the parklands which surround the
city's business and shopping district.
The University of Adelaide is linked with many of the world's best
universities for both student and staff exchange, for teaching and
research. These links may be broad-based across the University, or at
a discipline level. In the latter category, the University's Law
School has established links with the Faculties of Law at Philipps
University Marburg and the University of Mannheim in Germany; the
University of Poitiers in France; the University of Victoria in
Canada; and Pace University and the University of Oregon in the USA.
Students and staff at the University of Adelaide have access to state-of-the-art
facilities. Laboratories, classrooms and teaching suites contain up-to-date computing
and audio-visual equipment.
The University's extensive support services cater for students' cultural sporting
and social needs. Counselling, health and welfare assistance is available, as
well as study skills and English language tuition.
The University of Mannheim
The University of Mannheim is located at the place where Elector Karl Theordor
founded the Academy of Sciences of the Palatinate in 1763. The elector's palace
where the university is situated represents one of the most marvellous university
buildings in Germany. With its city front extending over 450m in length and its
more than 1400 windows it is even larger than Versailles. With a population of
325,000, Mannheim today is the second largest city in Baden-Wurttemberg and the
economic and cultural hub of the Rhine-Neckar-triangle. It can easily be reached
by means of almost 100 long-distance trains per day and is close to Frankfurt's
Rhine-Main Airport, the largest on the European continent. Mannheim also offers
excellent possibilities for shopping, an internationally renowned cultural scene
covering all branches of arts, remarkable museums and galleries and one of the
loveliest parks in Europe.
By German standards, Mannheim is a relatively small university offering
a more personal atmosphere. Approximately 13,000 students are enrolled,
1,400 of them in the Faculty of Law. Within the University, legal and
economic studies are predominant. The Faculty of Law is located in the
heart of Mannheim. Most of the city's scientific and cultural institutions
and the shopping district are within walking distance.
The University of Mannheim maintains close contacts with
universities in France, Great Britain, Spain, Sweden, Italy,
Australia, USA, Canada, Hungary and China by specific partnership
agreements. Several exchange programs provide for a cosmopolitan
composition of the academic community with respect to both students
and researchers.
The 1.5 million volumes of the University library satisfy all demands and good
technical equipment facilitates research. Internet and all major legal databases
are directly accessible from the law library.
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