Any of the older and more prestigious Australian universities, typically featuring sandstone buildings.
the University of Melbourne was the first sandstone university to offer any form of Creative Writing
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It all happened pretty smoothly for me: extra support from the teaching staff at school so I could matriculate well, had some terrific family holidays, and I got my degree at a sandstone university.
Studying engineering at any university is likely to lead to a higher salary than studying arts at a sandstone university.
I spend half my life as a sandstone university academic, but I spend the other half as a GP.
The rich are able to buy their way into elite schools and sandstone universities.
She did score a place in a medical course at a sandstone university.
Do you see a gulf emerging in Australia between the sandstone universities and the rest?
Adelaide University is one of Australia's original sandstone universities.
Our biggest sandstone universities enrol up to 50,000 students to make ends meet.
This seems to fuel the perception that philosophers are stuck in ivory towers, or at least behind the crumbling walls of sandstone universities.
In some circles children move effortlessly from selective high schools and private schools to the sandstone universities without ever meeting a peer who isn't either very smart or very well-off, or both.