Bond is located on the Gold Coast, Australia's popular tourist destination known for it's beautiful beaches and scenic sub-tropical hinterland attractions. Queensland's capital and Australia's third largest city, Brisbane, is only 45 miles away. Public transportation is readily available to you.

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Bond is unique in the fact that its academic year closely resembles a U.S. university calendar. With three 14-week semesters beginning in September, January, and May, students can easily find a semester that fits with their study abroad schedule. Academically speaking, Bond has achieved remarkable distinction, nationally and internationally, for many of its programs. Study abroad students will find a varied curriculum that allows you to select from four schools: the School of Business, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Information Technology, and the School of Law. In 2000, an Institute of Health Sciences was established with a small range of offerings. For updated program dates click here.


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As a CIS student, you will be placed in on-campus accommodation or at one of the university sponsored apartments and will be enrolled in a meal plan consisting of 10-14 meals per week. Depending on availability, you may or may not have your own single room. In any case, each room includes a telephone, computer access to the university's network (not the computer itself*), desk and chair, bed, lounge chair, wardrobe, bookshelves and a bedside table.

*Students are able to take with them their own laptop/note book but there is an initial setup fee as well as about a two week wait for installation. Please note that you will have 24 hour access to the university computer labs.

Click here for more information about university sponsored apartments.
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As a new student, you will be invited to take part in Bond's orientation program with an optional one day excursion.. The camp is held off-campus in a beautiful location allowing you to meet other new students and settle in to Australian and Bond life. You will find that Bond offers wonderful facilities and programs for all of its students. On campus you will have access to a coffee house, cafes, health clinic, computer labs, banking ATM, a post office, as well as a superb sports center featuring basketball volleyball, squash, and a heated swimming pool.

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Listed below are some of the more popular areas of study and links to the university websites for more details about their offerings.

You will have the opportunity to choose courses from the following areas: Accounting, Australian studies, Business and Entrepreneurship, Chinese, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology, ECommerce, Economics, English, Film and Television, Finance, French, Health Sciences, Hospitality Management, Information Technology, International, Business, International Relations, Japanese, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Management, Marketing, Multi-Media, Philosophy, Psychology, Spanish.

A complete list of course descriptions can be found here
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Click here for the program fee. The Program Fee listed is per semester - two semester rates include a discount and can be quoted by CIS. Included in this fee are full-time tuition and CIS administrative fees, room and board (14 meals/week at on campus housing and 10 meals/week at university sponsored apartments), all CIS advisory services and personal pre-departure orientation, airport reception, host university orientation (including excursions during orientation week), Overseas Student Health Cover (mandatory Australian health insurance), academic transcript, student union/association fees and health and travel insurance.

CIS is committed to helping students study abroad and as such has developed the CIS Go Global Scholarship Program. These scholarships are modest, merit based awards that are intended to provide the incentive academically qualified students need to study abroad. Click here for more information about the Go Global program.

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Student Council

Social clubs

Sports association

Sports clubs

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To apply simply download an application, and submit it to CIS. You can also apply via InstaAccept™ which will tell you the outcome of the application in 48 hours provided you meet the eligibility criteria. Please take into account the deadline when applying, but the sooner you apply the better the chance you will have in securing on-campus housing, the more time you have to save money and the better prepared you will be for your study abroad experience.

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