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Achievement

The University of Adelaide took out the Premier's Award for excellence and high achievement in exporting at the Business SA Export Awards recently.

It also won the Education Adelaide education award category for outstanding export achievement in the field of education services, facilities, expertise and curriculum.

"South Australia becoming an education centre is part of the State Strategic Plan, with the State Government seeking to double the levels of international students within 10 years," said University Vice-Chancellor Professor James McWha after the awards.

"It is appropriate that the University of Adelaide is leading the charge to make South Australia an international education centre of excellence."

The University of Adelaide currently has students and staff from more than 80 countries and has outperformed the tertiary sector in international growth, achieving a 24.7% increase in its international student load while the corresponding figure for all Australian universities was 8.5%.

"International students from the University of Adelaide not only inject many hundreds of millions of dollars into the economy annually, they take fond memories back home with them and become ambassadors for our State throughout their business lives, which has great potential effects for our economy over a long period," Professor McWha said.

All winners of Business SA export awards go on to the Australian Export Awards, held in Sydney on Thursday, December 1.