"Did you know thatjes" (about Curtin)

- Curtin (or WAIT, as it was then) was built on the shoulders of smaller institutions that had been established decades prior. The Western Australian School of Mines, for instance, was established in 1902. Muresk Agricultural College opened in 1926.

- Curtin was established in 1966 as the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT). It changed to Curtin University of Technology in 1987.

- John Curtin, from whom the University takes its name, is widely considered to be one of the country's greatest leaders. He was Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, when he died in office.

- John Curtin was a great follower of Australian Rules Football. He supported South Fremantle in the Western Australian Football League and Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League.

- In 1957, a bushfire cleared a large area of the Bentley pine plantation. This would eventually become the site for Curtin's main campus.

- Curtin operates out of a total of 16 locations, including campuses in Sydney, Malaysia and Singapore.

- Curtin's Margaret River campus is located in Western Australia's premium wine growing region. The region produces only 3% of Australia's total grape production, but 20% of the nation's premium wines.

- The Bentley campus is home to over 1,000 different species of plants.

- The Bentley campus is sprawled across a whopping 116 hectares.

- The Bentley campus has 40 hectares of sporting fields.

- The hockey pitches at Bentley campus were the first artificial hockey pitches to be installed in the southern hemisphere.

- In 2007, a total of 41,348 students studied at Curtin. More than 30,000 were based at the Bentley campus.

- There are more than 30,000 students attending the Bentley campus. That's a similar population to Geraldton, Western Australia's fifth-largest city.

- About 52% of Curtin's students are mature age - that is, they were older than 20 years of age when they enrolled.

- Curtin employed 1,238 academic staff in 2007.

- The Bentley campus has 6,214 parking bays. 3,420 of them are for students.

- More than 500 buses stop at Curtin each weekday during semester!

- The Bentley campus has 28 lecture theatres and 120 tutorial rooms.

- There are 10 food outlets at Bentley campus.

- Our library collection holds around 420,000 books, 31,500 videos and 35,000 journal titles.

- More than 1,000 titles are borrowed from the Robertson Library every day.

- More than 60 clubs are registered with the Guild, supporting around 3,000 students. Types of clubs are: academic, international, issue-based, social, special interest, sports and religious.

- For more than 20 years, 12.00pm - 2.00pm each Wednesday has been common free time for every Curtin student. It was originally recommended by the Guild.

- The most unusual request for the Guild's Student Assist was "how do I stop my dog from barking?"

- Oktoberfest 2007 sold out in one day.

- Perth has more hours of sunshine per day than any other Australian capital city.

- "If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people." - Well-known Chinese proverb.

- "I have no special talent. I am just passionately curious." - Albert Einstein, Theoretical Physicist.