Torrens University Australia Torrens University Australia Torrens University is a private university in Australia. It is part of the Laureate International Universities network with campus in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane . Upon commission, Torrens University became the 40th university in Australia and the first new university for 20 years. The university currently offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Business Administration, Commerce, Education, Global Project Management, Public Health, Design and Digital Media as well as Higher Degrees by Research. As of April 2018, Torrens University has a total of 10,300 enrolled students. An application from Laureate Education Asia to found a private university
Robert Torrens (judge) In 1855-6 Torrens was one of several Irish judges who was threatened with removal from office by the House of Commons as being too old or inform to fulfill their duties properly. The Irish Bar strongly opposed his removal from office, pleading that although he was eighty years of age, Torrens was an exceptionally conscientious and hard-working judge. Torrens protested strongly at the suggestion that he was unfit for office, but in the event he died suddenly at his country house, Derrynoid Lodge, just after the spring assizes in 1856. Like many of the Torrens clan he married a cousin,