Charles Sturt University

Charles Sturt University was established on 1 July 1989 from the amalgamation of some living separately-administered Colleges of sophisticated Education encompassing the Mitchell school of Advanced learning in Bathurst, the Riverina-Murray organization of Higher Education in Albury-Wodonga and the Riverina school of sophisticated learning in Wagga Wagga, through the enactment of The Charles Sturt University proceed, 1989 (Act No. 76, 1989). It is entitled in honour of surveyor Charles Sturt.

The Mitchell College of sophisticated learning has been formed on 1 January 1970, and the Riverina Murray organization of Education campus in Wagga Wagga and Albury-Wodonga has functioned since 1984. The last mentioned organization has earlier succeeded the Riverina school of Advanced learning, which was itself the outcome of an even earlier amalgamation between Wagga farming College and the Wagga Wagga Teachers School.

In 1998, Charles Sturt University recognized the first Study Centre in Sydney and formerly in Melbourne in 2007. These study centres are operated by a personal education assembly called Study Group Australia.

On 1 January 2005, Charles Sturt University official transfers to assume control of the University of Sydney Orange campus, which originated into power on 1 January 2005. In 2013 the University implemented a gas motor cogeneration power vegetation to help minimize fuel charges and carbon emissions.

On 10 July 2007, fire smashed a chemistry laboratory at the University Wagga Wagga campus on 14 February 2011 Charles Sturt University reformed its logo. The sturt reward pea flower (Swainsona Formosa) is now style and made famous, with the full title of the university as part of its logo.