Postgraduate Research Programs

Our programs are constantly revised to keep pace in the rapidly changing world of technology and business practice. This site provides information to assist you to research your options and check the admission requirements for the program/s you are interested in.

The University of Adelaide is recognised internationally for its strengths in the:

• biological sciences (especially agriculture, health sciences and molecular biosciences/biotechnology);
• physical sciences (especially physics, mathematics, geology, geophysics and chemistry);
• engineering, information technology and telecommunications;
• environmental sciences and management; and
• humanities and social sciences (especially gender and labour studies, international economics and human geography).

Research clusters

In addition the University has outstanding research teams spread across a wide range of disciplines. To build larger cross-disciplinary teams with expertise to tackle big research questions, the University has funded the following research clusters:

• Healthy Ageing Research Cluster
• Healthy Development Adelaide
• Water Research Cluster
• Computational Neuroscience Research Cluster
• Defence and Security Research Cluster