The Bond University

The Bond University could be a non-public not-for-profit university placed in Robin, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

History

The University was established and its development funded via a venture between Bond Corporation in Australia and therefore the Japanese entity, EIE, at the initiative of Alan Bond, the founder and Chairman of Bond Corporation. In 1987, the Parliament of Australian state granted it university standing via the passage of the Bond University Act. The University commenced teaching in mite 1989 with associate initial intake of 322 students.

In 1991, EIE no inheritable  Bond Corporation's share of the project and therefore the development lands and therefore the field were after passed into the management of a receiver/manager, acting for the principal somebody of EIE.

The field was no inheritable  by Bond University Ltd in its title in August 1998.

Ratings and performance

University rankings

National

Global

QS [6]

380

In the freelance 2012 smart Universities Guide Bond University is that the highest rating Australian university, receiving the utmost 5 stars across the foremost key performance indicators. Bond was conjointly the very best rating Australian university within the smart Universities Guide in 2007 and 2009, associated received an equal second-highest rating in 2008 and 2010.

The University was hierarchal equal thirty first within the 2010 Excellence in analysis for Australia (ERA) rankings that assessed Australian universities' analysis activity and quality. The 2010 ERA report hierarchal the Bond University school of Business as world commonplace within the analysis field of Commerce, Management, business and Services, putting Bond within the high ten universities in Australia. the college conjointly achieved on top of world standing for analysis within the business and management sub-category, and a world commonplace ranking within the economic science field.

According to the Australian monetary Review's most up-to-date Boss Master in Business Rankings (2013), Bond hierarchal #1 for student satisfaction and among {the high the highest} five MBAs and top three got MBAs in Australia.

Students representing the University’s school of Law won four international mooting competitions within the amount Gregorian calendar month 2011 – Gregorian calendar month 2012:

•             The International judicature Moot, The Hague, Holland (April, 2011) 

•             The Willem C. Vis (East) International business Arbitration Moot, urban center (April, 2011)

•             The Beijing Foreign Studies University Cup court Competition, China (June, 2011)

•             The D.M. Harish Memorial Government Law school International court Competition, Bharat (February, 2012)

Campus and facilities

Arch building

The Bond University field was formed and developed by master planner Daryl Jackson of Jackson design with vital input from Australian state designer Robin Gibson. The signature Arch building was designed by Japanese designer Arcata Suzuki.

Bond University at Sunset

The field options a series of college erinaceous rock buildings targeted on unreal Lake Bobby Orr. In 2008, the Bond University Mira faculty of property Development Building was formally opened by the Hon. Julia Gillard and was the primary in Australia to attain a half dozen Star inexperienced Star – Education PILOT Certified Rating for style by the inexperienced Building Council of Australia.

Other recent additions to the field facilities include:

•             An $8.4million extension to the Legal Skills Centre placed inside the Law Faculty; formally opened by Governor-General, Ms Quentin Bryce AC, in March 2011.

•             The BAL naves Foundation transmission Learning Centre, named in honor of University helper, Dr Neil BAL naves, AO – a $3.4million technology-rich student facility opened in March 2010.

•             The ADCO Amphitheatre - an outside amphitheatre and Alumni Court sponsored by ADCO Constructions - opened in Sept, 2009.

•             The Macquarie commerce space, opened by the Hon Pakistani monetary unit Bligh in might, 2007, providing students with a simulated commerce setting, as well as live ticker screens and market knowledge from eighteen Bloomberg terminals.

In 2006, Prime Minister John Howard opened the $20 million school of Health Sciences and medication building (though the primary intake of scholars started in might 2005), housing a whole set of lecture theatres, tutorial rooms, specialized clinical rooms and laboratories. A greenhorn purpose-made anatomy laboratory was value-added in 2010. The Medical program is additionally the foremost high-priced degree in Australia.

Construction is presently current on the $16.2 million Sheila city faculty of design building which will sit adjacent to the Mira faculty of property Development building.

The 48-hectare field conjointly includes a Sports and Recreation Centre, with Olympic-size pool, gymnasium, multi-purpose sports hall, squash/tennis/beach volleyball courts, and rugby/soccer fields.

It is maintained by Tran walk bus routes and bike ways, with buses conjointly running between the field and Varsity Lakes and Robin railway stations, and to the Gold Coast looking centers Robin and Pacific truthful.

Bond offers non-public or shared accommodation on-campus and provides accommodation services for those seeking off-campus accommodation.