Flinders is everything a modern university should be - progressive and dynamic yet still friendly and accessible. It offers a vibrant and stimulating environment in which to work or study and have a long-held reputation as the "students' university".

The main Flinders campus is in Adelaide, and there are number of

 external teaching and research centres in regional South Australia, south-west Victoria and the Northern Territory.

It is committed to innovation, excellence and equity in all that it does and are particularly proud of the range of special access schemes that encourage and support students from non-traditional backgrounds.

It offers more than 160 undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as higher degree research supervision across all disciplines. Many courses use new information and communication technologies to supplement face-to-face teaching and provide flexible options.

International students make up 10% of the on-campus student population and it also offers a number of offshore programs.

It also has a high research profile and consistently rank among Australia's top universities on a per capita basis for research spending and for the citation of the work in professional journals. There is a strong emphasis on collaboration between disciplines.