Townsville is an awesome place to study!
Townsville is the largest city in tropical Australia and the country's seventh largest city overall. Located on the Great Barrier Reef, less than one hour's flight south of Cairns, Townsville offers easy access to an extraordinary range of natural wonders. This includes: the Great Barrier Reef, World Heritage listed rainforest, the Whitsunday Islands, and the Australian outback.
Choose Townsville as a study destination and you will gain access to a quality education in the friendly and peaceful atmosphere of Australia's largest regional city. Along with a first class education, students can also gain a unique insight into the real Australia, away from the tourists and the big cities, making many new friends within the local community.
Some important features of studying in Townsville
Quality Learning
Led by James Cook University, a centre of excellence in tropical studies, Townsville and the North Queensland region offers an extraordinary range of quality education facilities including 13 private secondary schools, 9 State Secondary Schools, English-language facilities and the Barrier Reef Institute of Technical & Further Education.
Townsville is home to world renowned research facilities including the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Australian Institute for Tropical Medicine, the tropical centre of the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and a range of Commonwealth Research Centres (CRCs) focused on tropical science and tropical agriculture.
The private secondary colleges of Townsville and the region are a range of church based and non-denominational schools with enviable academic, cultural and sporting records. Many have provided academic opportunities to children from across regional Queensland and northern Australia for over 75 years, with students travelling thousands of kilometres each year to attend.
Townsville also offers excellence in vocational education through the Barrier Reef Institute of Technical and Further Education which is recognised internationally for its courses in Tourism and Hospitality and offers a wide range of options, including Business, Human Services and Information Technology, to international students.
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