Southern Cross University, Lismore

Location

The Southern Cross University is located on Military Road in the East Lismore, NSW, surrounded by the Invercauld Road and the Industry Dr. Its setting is the city, therefore, it is surrounded by a lot of great stores and restaurants like Asya Groceries, Aldi, Coles, Little Nonya Restaurant, La Vida Bar and Restaurant, Wyrallah Road Shopping Center and others to ensure that the students have a lot to do off-campus as well.

Campus

The SCU campus size is over 75 hectares; the campus has over 20 buildings. The campus offers amazing innovating facilities including engineering and science precinct, contemporary music and visual arts studios, environmental laboratories and the SCU Health Clinic. The Lismore campus library is located in the Goodman Plaza and it was designed with ample choices of comfortable spaces that include study rooms, group study rooms, cafes, academic skills areas, lounges, balcony for outdoor study, wireless access and more. Also, the campus has two main sports areas including the Maurie Ryan Oval and the Darrel Chapman Sports facility that counts with 4 tennis courts, netball courts and basketball courts.

Residing Options

SCU offers services to help you find accommodation on-campus residences or off-campus private rentals. There are a variety of options on campus; most of them are comfortable, modern and fully-furnished apartments with kitchen, dining area and bathroom. Even though living on campus is one way to live the full experience of college, many students prefer to have their own accommodation for a more independent environment. In this case, Unistays is a service that helps students find off-campus housing from short to long terms like apartments, share-houses and granny flats.

Faculty

The learning experience at SCU is good. Students claim that the majority of professors are experienced and have full knowledge of the content, bringing real life experiences into the academic environment and always up to help.