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=== Early years === In March 1948, classes commenced with a first intake of 46 students pursuing programs including [[civil engineering]], [[mechanical engineering]], [[mining engineering]], and [[electrical engineering]].<ref>{{cite web |title=University Official Records |publisher=University of New South Wales Records & Archives Office |url=http://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/historicalresources/onlineexhibitions/unitimelineexhibition/1949_1959.html#1949 |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-date=4 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204003425/http://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/historicalresources/onlineexhibitions/unitimelineexhibition/1949_1959.html#1949 |url-status=live }}</ref> At that time, the thesis programs were innovative. Each course embodied a specified and substantial period of practical training in the relevant industry. It was also unprecedented for tertiary institutions at that time to include compulsory instruction in humanities.<ref name="UNSW History2">O'Farrell, ''UNSW, a portrait: the University of New South Wales, 1949-1999'', UNSW Press, 1999 at p33 {{ISBN|0-86840-417-9}}</ref> [[File:Old Main Building UNSW 2025-01-05.jpg|thumb|The Old Main Building is the first permanent building constructed on campus, officially opened on 16 April 1955]] Initially, the university operated from the inner [[Sydney Technical College]] city campus in [[Ultimo, New South Wales|Ultimo]] as a separate institution from the college. However, in 1951, the Parliament of New South Wales passed the ''New South Wales University of Technology (Construction) Act 1951 (NSW)'' to provide funding and allow buildings to be erected at the [[Kensington, New South Wales|Kensington]] site where the university is now located.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} The lower campus area of the Kensington campus was vested in the university in two lots, in December 1952 and June 1954. The upper campus area was vested in the university in November 1959.<ref name=campushist>{{cite web |url=http://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/historicalresources/onlineexhibitions/kensington.html |title=Campus Development Exhibition |publisher=University of New South Wales. Records and Archives Office |access-date=10 October 2012 |archive-date=30 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730142051/http://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/historicalresources/onlineexhibitions/kensington.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=campushist1993>{{cite web |url=https://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/ID21667-001%20%20The%20Development%20of%20the%20Buildings%20and%20Grounds%20of%20the%20University%20of%20New%20South%20Wales%20by%20Rae%20McClintock%20%281993%29%20%28Digital%20Copy%29.pdf|title=The development of the buildings and grounds of the University of New South Wales |website=University of New South Wales |date=March 1993|first=Rae|last=McLintock|access-date=7 March 2021|archive-date=9 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309172727/https://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/ID21667-001%20%20The%20Development%20of%20the%20Buildings%20and%20Grounds%20of%20the%20University%20of%20New%20South%20Wales%20by%20Rae%20McClintock%20%281993%29%20%28Digital%20Copy%29.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
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