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UNSW Shaping History. UNSW Making History.

For 70 years UNSW has been shaping history. We have been innovative. We have been collaborative. We have opened opportunities. We have made a global impact.

This is only the start. Our future timeline is unwritten and a lifetime of potential lays ahead.

UNSW will always strive for more, we will always look to inspire and to innovate. Our biggest impact is yet to come.

Explore our history

1949 – UNSW is founded
On 1 July 1949 the University of New South Wales, the State's second university, was incorporated as the then New South Wales University of Technology. The Foundation Stone for the first permanent building to be constructed on campus - now known as the 'Old Main Building' - was set on 25 February 1950 and the building was officially opened on 16 April 1955.