Contribute to the Development of Sippy Downs as a University Town



By 2025, the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Master Plan will be fully realised. USC, with a student body of 15,000, will be the centre of a thriving university town.

The development of the Sippy Downs Town Centre is expected to create as many as 8,000 jobs, and offer a mix of retail, commercial and residential space, with tenants attracted by the close proximity to the University.

Internationally, clusters of businesses have grown around Universities – such as Silicon Valley out of Stanford University and the technology cluster around Cambridge in England. Many big companies – such as Microsoft and Apple – also describe their headquarters as a campus reflecting a dynamic, young community feeling and culture.

CNBC Business, a European Business Magazine read by 650,000 readers each month, highlighted the Innovation Centre and Sippy Downs as "Australia's no worries answer to Silicon Valley". Read the full article here.

In fact of 17 hotspots to be featured by the magazine in special monthly reports, which have been running since April 2008, Sippy Downs is the only location featured outside of Europe.  

We are helping to build Australia’s first university town and a campus location is very attractive to many businesses.

Our connection with the University of the Coast provides companies with the opportunity to benefit from the University’s dynamic and creative campus environment and to tap into talent via student internships and graduate recruitment.

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