The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) is a public university based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. It opened in 1996 as the Sunshine Coast University College with 524 students and became a full university in 1999.
The main campus sits at Sippy Downs on the Sunshine Coast, with additional campuses at Hervey Bay on the Fraser Coast, Gympie, Caboolture, and Petrie in Moreton Bay (opened 2020). A postgraduate campus operates in Adelaide, South Australia. The university offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes through five schools: business and creative industries; education and tertiary access; health; law and society; and science, technology and engineering. It is registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students. In the 2020 Student Experience Survey, UniSC ranked within the top five universities in Australia for teaching quality and in the top six for overall student experience.
