
University of New South Wales
Program Overview
About University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales is renowned for the quality of graduates and its commitment to new and creative approaches to education and research. Its motto, Scientia Manu et Mente (“Knowledge by Hand and Mind”), encapsulates the University's central philosophy of balancing the practical and the scholarly. The University also enjoys the reputation of Australia's leading international university with over 200 sister university partnerships around the world, amongst many other international activities. UNSW has developed strong research relationships and student exchange programs with these international partners. UNSW has approximately 40,000 students including over 9,000 international students, from over 165 different countries and an additional 1,900 international students in pre-University programs. Located in Sydney, the University of New South Wales is situated near the business hub of Australia's largest city, providing easy access to a wide range of academic, cultural and social activities, and less than 5 km from some of the most famous beaches in the world. The 38 hectare Kensington site, the main UNSW campus, consists of state-of-the-art faculty and service facilities that combine to provide an ideal educational and communal environment for all students.
Term Dates
The University of New South Wales offers IBEX opportunities in fall and spring semesters.
- When planning for your program at UNSW, you must choose in advance how many courses (3 or 4) you want to take. This decision will dictate when you need to arrive at UNSW:
- Spring semester:
- Option 1: Tailored Term 1, which runs from the first week in January through mid-May. This option consists of taking one course during UNSW's January Term (JT) and three courses during Term 1 (T1). This allows students to take a total of four courses that will transfer back to NYU Stern as 16 credits.
- Option 2: Term 1 only, which runs from mid-February through mid-May. This option consists of taking three courses that will transfer back to NYU Stern as 12 credits.
- Fall semester:
- Option 1: Tailored Term 3, which runs from mid-August through mid-December. This option consists of taking one course during UNSW's August Term (AT) and three courses during Term 3 (T3). This allows students to take a total of four courses that will transfer back as 16 credits.
- Option 2: Term 3 only, which runs from mid-September through mid-December. This option consists of taking three courses that will transfer back as 12 credits.
- Spring semester:
Dates are approximate and may be subject to change.
Housing and Living Costs
- Housing: UNSW guarantees campus accommodation for you, as an exchange student. Meals are included and the cost is approximately AU$8,500/semester (5 months). You can also find off-campus shared apartments without a meal plan and costs are approximately AU$250 – 450/week.
- Food: approximately AU$100/week.
- Books: AU$500 – 750/semester.
- Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC): approximately AU$242/semester (required for all international students in Australia).
- Visa: approximately AU$550 which also grants you the right to work in Australia while studying.
AU$ = Australian Dollars
Find out more about IBEX tuition, housing, and other logistics.
Language of Instruction
English
Student Services
The student services available to exchange students include:
- Airport reception
- Temporary accommodation and transfers on arrival
- International student housing assistance
- Orientation program
- Social and recreational activities
Academic Information
If you are accepted to IBEX, you will attend two individual advising meetings to plan and revise your schedule: one with NYU Stern Academic Advising and one with the NYU Stern International Programs team. As you build your academic schedule for your semester abroad, carefully review and consider the following course information. Please note that UNSW requires a minimum 3.0 GPA for all exchange students.
IBEX Course Information
- You may take a full semester of business classes while abroad on IBEX.
- Leave room for at least two general electives in your schedule. This allows you to:
- Take interesting, location-specific courses not offered at Stern, and
- Have more flexibility during the course registration process.
- Reference the IBEX Course Guide: What you can or cannot take.
- You can take a maximum of two classes per concentration.
- Accounting courses cannot be taken for credit toward the Accounting or CPA majors/concentrations.
- All IBEX grades will transfer back to NYU Stern as Pass/Fail.
Previously Approved Courses
- Listed below are courses that were taken previously by Stern IBEX students and have already been approved for a specific NYU equivalent.
- There is no guarantee that the courses listed here will be offered during the specific semester you study abroad. It is important to be flexible. Have a Plan A and Plan B and the space to take some electives.
- If a course is already listed below as approved, it does not need to be reviewed again, unless you want to see if it will count towards a new requirement.
Finding New Courses
- You are not limited to only taking the courses listed on this page.
- If you see a course on UNSW’s website that you would like to take, but is not listed below, you must submit the syllabus to Stern’s International Programs team for approval.
- Once UNSW publishes its confirmed courses for the semester you will be attending, you can revise your list as needed based on what is being offered.
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UNSW has an academic calendar that you can explore to get a sense of future courses. To get a sense of future fall semester courses, review the August 2020 Tailored Term 3 course offerings (pick one) and the UNSW Online Course Search (pick three offered in the T3 column). To get a sense of the future spring semester courses by viewing the UNSW Tailored Terms Courses Booklet (pick one for Tailored Term 1) and the UNSW Online Course Search (pick three classes offered in the T1 column for Term 1).
List of Approved Courses
Course Title Abroad |
NYU Credits |
Course Equivalent at NYU |
Semester Taken |
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ARTS 2871 - Power and Powerlessness | 4 | Texts and Ideas | Fall 2022 |
LAWS3326 Theories of Law and Justice |
4 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2020 |
ARTS2542 Gods, Heroines and Heroes of Greek Myths |
4 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2020 |
ARTS1361 Mind, Ethics, and Freedom: Introduction to Philosophy |
4 |
Texts and Ideas |
Spring 2020 |
ARTS 1031 Reading Through Time: Literature from the Renaissance to Postmodernity |
4 |
Texts and Ideas |
Fall 2019 |
Introducing Moral, Social and Political Philosophy |
4 |
Texts and Ideas |
Spring 2019 |
GENL1063 Terror and Religion | 4 | Cultures and Contexts | Spring 2022 |
ARTS1211: Australia's Asian Context |
4 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Spring 2020 |
ARTS1780 Concepts of Europe |
4 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Fall 2019 |
ATSI1011 Indigenous Australia |
4 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Fall 2019 |
ATSI1012 Aboriginal Sydney |
4 |
Cultures and Contexts |
Fall 2019 |
BABS 1111 Big Fat Myths |
4 |
Natural Science |
Fall 2019 |
BEES6601 Introduction to the Sydney Environment |
4 |
Natural Science |
Spring 2019 |
SOLA1070 SOLA Sustainable Energy |
4 |
Natural Science |
Fall 2019 |
MSCI0501 The Marine Environment |
4 |
Natural Science |
Spring 2020 |
MSCI2001 Introductory Marine Science |
4 |
Natural Science |
Spring 2019 |
AVIA1901 Aviation Transport Economics |
4 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2018 |
AVIA2601 Aviation Operations Research |
4 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2018 |
AVIA2801 Regional and General Aviation |
4 |
General Stern Elective |
Fall 2018 |
ADAD2610 Art and Design for Environmental Challenges |
4 |
Sustainable Business Co-Concentration |
Fall 2019 |
COMM1000 Creating Social Change: From Innovation to Impact |
4 |
Sustainable Business (Discipline Area) |
Fall 2019 |
ECON3119 Political Economy of Capitalism |
4 |
Advanced Economics Elective |
Fall 2018 |
ECON3130 Real Estate Economics and Public Policy |
4 |
Advanced Economics Elective |
Fall 2018 |
FINS3633 - Real Estate Finance | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective (cannot also get credit for FINC-UB 38 Real Estate Capital Markets) | Fall 2022 |
FINS3655 - Behavioural Finance | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective (cannot also get credit for FINC-UB 29 Behavioural Finance) | Fall 2022 |
FINS3648 - Banking, Finance and Technology | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective | Spring 2022 |
FINS3637 - Wealth Management Advice & Ethics | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective | Spring 2022 |
FINS2643 - Wealth Management and Client Engagement | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective | Spring 2022 |
FINS3616 International Business Finance | 4 | Advanced Finance Elective | Spring 2022 |
MARK6105 Relationship Marketing and Customer Relationship Management |
4 |
Advanced Marketing Elective |
Spring 2019 |
MARK1012 Marketing Fundamentals |
4 |
MKTG-UB 1 Introduction to Marketing |
Fall 2014, Spring 2020 |
MGMT2721 Managing People | 4 | Advanced Management Elective (cannot also get credit for MGMT-UB 7.001 Managing People & Teams at Work) | Fall 2022 |
MGMT3721 Negotiation Skills | 4 | Advanced Management Elective (cannot also get credit for MGMT-UB 30 Negotiation and Consensus Building) | Fall 2022 |
MGMT3003 Global Entrepreneurship |
4 |
Advanced Management Elective |
Fall 2019 |
MGMT1101 Global Business Environment |
4 |
Advanced Management Elective, MULT UB 11 - International Studies Program (ISP) - SPRING ONLY |
Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020 |
MGMT2001 Managing Innovation & Change |
4 |
Advanced Management Elective |
Spring 2016 |
MGMT2102 Managing Across Cultures |
4 |
Advanced Management Elective |
Spring 2021 |
MGMT1001 Managing Organizations & People |
4 |
MGMT-UB 1 Management and Organizations |
Fall 2020 |
MGMT1002 Managing Organizational Behavior |
4 |
MGMT-UB 1 Management and Organizations |
Spring 2021 |
GENL0231 - Law in the Digital Age | 4 | Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective | Spring 2022 |
COMP1511 Programming Fundamentals |
4 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective (cannot count towards Courant Elective) |
Fall 2020 |
INFS1609 Fundamentals of Business Programming |
4 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective (cannot count towards Courant Elective) |
Fall 2020 |
INFS2609 Programming for Business |
4 |
Advanced Computing & Data Sciences Elective (cannot count towards Courant Elective) |
Fall 2020 |
INFS3603 Introduction to Business Analytics |
4 |
Advanced Computing & Data Science Elective |
Spring 2019 |
SDES3174 Digital Design: Introduction to Web Design |
4 |
CAS Computer Science Minor (CSCI UA.0004 Introduction to Web Design & Computer Principles) - Requires approval from CS Department in CAS |
Fall 2019 |
COMP1511 Programming Fundamentals |
4 |
CAS Computer Science Minor (Intro to Computer Programming) - Requires approval from CS Department in CAS |
Fall 2019 |
INFS1602 Digital Transformation in Business |
4 |
INFO-UB 1 Info Tech in Business & Society |
Fall 2018 |
MGMT2726 Business Ethics and Sustainability |
4 |
SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility & Leadership (PRL) OR Sustainable Business Co-Concentration |
Fall 2019 |
HUMS1008 Music on my Mind: Psychology and Music | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
PSYC1029 Psychobiology of Sex, Love, and Attraction | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |
HUMS1011 Experiencing Sydney Crime | 4 | General Non-Stern Elective | Fall 2022 |