Other campuses include Tonsley, Adelaide central business district, Renmark, Alice Springs, and Darwin.

In 1960, Premier Thomas Playford announced that 150 hectares (370 acres) of state government-owned land in Burbank (now Bedford Park) would be allocated to the University of Adelaide for the establishment of a second campus.

Architect Geoff Harrison, in conjunction with architectural firm Hassell, McConnell and Partners, designed a new university that, with future expansions, could eventually accommodate up to 6000 students.

The ALP wished to break up the University of Adelaide's hegemony over tertiary education in the state, and announced that they intended the Bedford Park campus to be an independent institution.

[8] On 17 March 1966, a bill was passed by state parliament officially creating The Flinders University of South Australia.

[18] In 2015, the university opened a new campus at Tonsley,[19] the former site of the Mitsubishi Motors Australia plant in Southern Adelaide.

[28] On 1 July 2017, the university restructured from a two-tier academic system of four faculties and 14 schools, to a single-tier structure consisting of six colleges.

[30] The university also in 2019 announced plans for a substantial development on a tract on land on the northern portion of the Bedford Park Campus adjacent to the Flinders hospitals precinct.

Known as Flinders Village the decade-long development will deliver research facilities, student accommodation, commercial premises and amenities.

Construction began in December 2021 and the building, which will be home to Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, is scheduled for completion in 2024.

[34] In 2021 the university announced it would be expanding its Central Business District presence, establishing a vertical campus as the anchor tenant in Festival Tower, a major development scheduled for completion in 2024 adjacent to Parliament House and the Adelaide Railway Station on North Terrace.

[40] The chancellor is John Hood, a chartered accountant and alumnus of the university, who has served two terms on the council (since 2004).

[53] Other campuses include Tonsley,[54] Adelaide central business district, Renmark, Alice Springs, and Darwin.

[57] It also maintains a number of external teaching facilities in regional South Australia, south-west Victoria and the Northern Territory.

[79] The Australian Government's QILT[b] conducts national surveys documenting the student life cycle from enrolment through to employment.

[80] These surveys place more emphasis on criteria such as student experience, graduate outcomes and employer satisfaction[80] than perceived reputation, research output and citation counts.

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