IFSA-Butler at the University of Tasmania

  Australia

• Tasmania: 
Hobart,  Launceston

Term: Academic Year, Fall, Spring 
Dates: February - November

Description: Outdoor enthusiasts take notice! The University of Tasmania offers a wide range of courses at both its Hobart and Launceston campuses. Located off the southeast coast of Australia, the island state of Tasmania has many hectares of park land that remain unspoiled. Students can spend their weeks studying in a unique Tasmanian city, then escape for the weekend into the great outdoors. IFSA-Butler offers semester and year programs at the University of Tasmania, Hobart and Launceston. Students interested in fine arts, music and aquaculture should investigate these fine departments, but applicants from all majors are welcome.

The main southern campus in Hobart is located in a suburb called Sandy Bay, a ten-minute walk from the city center. Closer to the center of town are the Tasmanian Conservatory of Music and the Tasmanian Centre for the Arts. These occupy well-renovated facilities on the north and south sides of the dock area called Sullivan's Cove.

Launceston is the principal city in the northern part of Tasmania and has a population of 85,000. The University of Tasmania's northern campus, with just under 5,000 students, is in a suburb called Newnham, about ten minutes away from the downtown area.

The University of Tasmania is part of IFSA-Butler's Ultimate Australia program. Ultimate Australia allows students to experience the "real Australia" by studying in less touristy cities while enjoying an urban orientation in Sydney, followed by a visit to the Outback before the start of the academic semester.

Highlights: Australia is a land of compelling extremes. The oldest datable land forms on earth are found in Australia, but it was the last continent to be discovered by Western explorers. It is the longest continuously inhabited continent on earth but has a written history of only 213 years. It is the smallest continent on the planet but it is also the largest island. Settled as a convict prison, today the country of Australia is one of the freest democratic societies in the world. As large as the continental United States in land area, it is home to barely 18 million people, the same population as the state of California. In a land of vast unsettled spaces, over 80 percent of the population lives in one of the five major cities.

Originally the European settlers were almost exclusively English and Irish. Today the country has sizable populations of Italians, Greeks, Malays, Indonesians and Chinese to enrich the cultural mix of this once isolated island. It is this diversity and this incredible backdrop that make Australia truly an education by itself. Combine this with the academic excellence of its universities, and you have a study abroad destination like no other.

The academic year in Australia is reversed due to the seasonal inversion in the southern hemisphere. The academic year roughly follows the calendar year, beginning in late February and ending in late November. The application deadlines for IFSA-Butler programs in Australia are November 15 for the spring semester and academic year and March 15 for the fall semester. Remember that if you leave in February for your 'spring' semester, you will be arriving in Australia at the end of their summer and will stay until the middle of their winter season.

Degree Level: Bachelors Degree (Undergraduate)

Cost in US$: Inquire for more info.

Experience Required: no