Our teaching
At Sydney you will be taught by dedicated scientific thinkers, including members of the Australian Academy of Science, Australian Research Council Fellows and prestigious prize winners.
You may also have the opportunity to study in the lab spaces of the new Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences building, undertake field trips, and explore our research stations and farms.
Given our exceptional environment for learning, we are ranked 57 in the world for the teching of life sciences.*
*2020 Times Higher Education Global Subject Rankings.
Our facilities
At the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, you will have access to fantastic facilities from biochemistry and genetics laboratories, to plant breeding and ecology greenhouses, to veterinary hospitals, to field facilities in the Great Barrier Reef, dry sclerophyll forests, mangrove swamps, beaches and intertidal rock platforms, agricultural fields and livestock farms.
The School of Life and Environmental Sciences conducts teaching and research on our campus in central Sydney, as well as farms and clinics established in Camden in greater Sydney, a research station at One Tree Island on the Great Barrier Reef, Crommelin Biological Field Station on the NSW Central Coast, and the Plant Breeding Institute at Narrabri in the grain growing area of northern NSW.
The School also has access to facilties in major hospitals like Westmead, medical research institutes and veterinary clinics around Sydney and Australia.