The University of Sydney and the NSW government have reached a framework agreement to build a new multi-disciplinary campus in western Sydney at Parramatta-Westmead.
To be located within the Westmead Health and Innovation District, the campus is expected to attract 25,000 students and 2,500 staff by 2055.
The campus will include teaching infrastructure and research along with community facilities and services. It will build on the district’s role as one of the largest health, education, research and training precincts in Australia.
The agreement comes more than two years after the state government and university begun negotiations in in November 2018.
University of Sydney’s outgoing vice-chancellor Michael Spence said the agreement was a major step in expanding the university’s presence in Western Sydney over coming decades.
“This once-in-a-century opportunity in Western Sydney would build on our 40-year history at Westmead and create a genuinely multidisciplinary major campus that enables new partnership and innovation opportunities for all of Sydney,” he said.
“We are committed to offering students in Western Sydney more opportunity to study and pursue research with our incredible academics to help solve some of the world’s most challenging problems.”
The state’s Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney Stuart Ayres said, “A globally recognized University campus in the Central River City at the core of the Westmead Health and Innovation District will drive innovation and catalyse future growth, ensuring we become a world leader in lifelong education and research partnerships that save lives and cure diseases.”
