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Charles Sturt University (CSU) is an Australian multi-campus university in rural New South Wales. It has campuses at Bathurst, Albury, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga, and is the main university servicing the west and southwest of New South Wales, as well as northern Victoria.
It was established on the 19 July 1989 from the merger of several existing separately-administered Colleges of Advanced Education including the Mitchell College of Advanced Education (MCAE) in Bathurst and the Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education (RMIHE) in Albury-Wodonga and Wagga Wagga, through the enactment of The Charles Sturt University Act, 1989 (Act No. 76, 1989).
The MCAE had been formed on 1 January 1971, and the RMIHE in Wagga Wagga and Albury-Wodonga had operated since 1985. The latter institution had earlier succeeded the Riverina College of Advanced Education (RCAE), which was itself the result of an even earlier merger between Wagga Agricultural College and Wagga Teachers College.
In late 2004, CSU began moves to assume control of the University of Sydney's Orange campus that will be finalized in 2005, after which all new Orange students will qualify for degrees from CSU; continuing students will continue to be awarded their degrees from Sydney.
Charles Sturt University is particularly well known for its degree courses in media and communications, the fine arts, viticulture, agriculture, nursing, radiography, teaching and accountancy.
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