Campus Life

Students and staff at Roseworthy take full advantage of excellent facilities, which are also used by many agricultural groups for training programs and residential schools.

Campus facilities include:

• laboratory facilities for research in biotechnology, molecular biology, microbiology, animal nutrition, meat quality and wool biology
• Roseworthy Farm, a commercial farm providing examples of most aspects of farming practice, livestock husbandry and general land use found in South Australia
• 1,535ha of land providing a practical training environment for students and resource for postgraduate research
• plant nursery and olive trial plantation
• aquatic reserve, ephemeral swamp and fauna park, offering students access to practical experience in handling and management of aquatic and terrestrial native fauna, ranging from micro-organisms to birds, native marsupials and reptiles
• state-of-the-art pig and poultry research units
• Australia's pre-eminent wheat breeding program, which seeks to provide high yielding, high quality, disease resistant wheats with wide adaptation for commercial production
• an 80ha deer farm
• modern facilities for laboratory, glasshouse and field-based studies including specialised equipment for crop and pasture agronomy
• modern domestic livestock research facility
• Roseworthy Library
• computing facilities
• Roseworthy Information Centre
• conference facilities and video conferencing centre
• residential accommodation
• Child Care Centre
• Roseworthy Agricultural Campus Student Union Council
• Roseworthy Old Collegians' Association
• Campus Catering at the Maitidli Café
• swimming pool
• sports playing areas
• chapel
• Montessori School

Conference Facilities

Roseworthy Campus is a unique conference venue with comfortable, fully-catered accommodation provided by the Roseworthy Residential College at a sensible price for groups of all sizes. The wide range of facilities available on the Campus include: lecture theatres and tutorial rooms with audio visual equipment, a tele-conference venue, rooms suitable for practical workshop activities.

For recreation there is a fully-licensed tavern and bistro, a 25-metre swimming pool and floodlit ovals and courts. At the end of the day there are thousands of acres of superb countryside at your doorstep. Stroll around the Roseworthy Farm, visit the native fauna sanctuary, watch the cows being milked, inspect the deer research farm or just sit under a tree and relax.

For further information on conference facilities, please contact the secretary by Phone (08) 8303 7888, Fax (08) 8303 7960 or write to: Roseworthy Residential College, Roseworthy SA 5371.