Introducing ECU City.
This stunning state-of-the-art campus will reshape the Perth CBD and redefine higher education in Western Australia.
ECU City will be a place where technology, industry and creativity meet to deliver the creative thinkers, adaptive learners and global citizens who will be the leaders of tomorrow.
Coming to the heart of Perth in late 2025, and open to students in 2026.
Introducing ECU City
A place of learning like you have never imagined.
Where passion meets performance. Where commerce meets culture. ECU City will be a place where stories take shape and careers bloom.
Due for completion in late 2025 and open to students in semester one 2026, ECU City will become Australia’s most innovative and dynamic university campus. Spanning 11 super-levels, it will be expansive, high-sensory, bold, and at the forefront of technology and human creativity.
ECU City will define the future of universities.
It will be the beating heart at the centre of Perth.
ECU City will deliver creative thinkers for a complex world.
ECU City will nurture and celebrate what is possible when creative industries meet business and technology. It will include the internationally recognised Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), with its world-leading courses in areas such as Dance, Aboriginal Performance, Musical Theatre, Acting, Music, and Production and Design.
From the School of Arts and Humanities will come creative industries programs, such as Broadcasting and Digital Journalism, Visual Arts, Design and Communications, as well as the WA Screen Academy with its programs in cinematography, film directing, documentary-making, production and screenwriting. Programs will be delivered in leading-edge film, television and broadcasting facilities.
Recognition and respect of Noongar culture and knowledge is in ECU’s DNA, and Kurongkurl Katitjin, the university’s Centre for Indigenous Australian Education and Research will be based at ECU City, alongside the University Pathway Program.
The School of Business and Law will connect thousands of world-ready graduates with the CBD, enriching an education program already rated as one of Australia’s finest for undergraduate student experience. ECU City will also represent the advanced technology education and research programs from the School of Science, leveraging the university’s highly respected Security Research Institute, with its work combatting information warfare and cyber-enabled crime.
Connections between technologists and creators, performers and the public, entrepreneurs and industry, will bring the best and brightest to Western Australia.
This is just the beginning.
ECU City is the centrepiece of the Perth City Deal, a collaboration between the Australian Government, Western Australian Government, City of Perth, and ECU, to deliver a world-class university to Perth’s CBD.
City Deals align planning, investment and governance to accelerate growth and job creation, by invigorating public spaces, securing future prosperity and making Australian cities more exciting, energised, liveable places to be.
ECU City will deliver by redefining the urban centre, connecting Perth’s commercial CBD, with its arts and culture precinct, and the Northbridge entertainment district.
It will offer seamless integration with industry, the most digitally advanced facilities in the Southern Hemisphere, and a permeable campus that welcomes everyone.
“This is a once-in-a generation opportunity to create the university of the future: ambitious, technologically advanced, and embedded with industry.”
Professor Steve Chapman, Former ECU Vice-Chancellor, 2015 -2024
Contact us
Acknowledgement of Country
ECU City will be established upon one of the world’s oldest learning places. For more than two thousand generations, Whadjuk Noongar people have lived, learned and been connected to Boorloo, the place now known as Perth. Acknowledging this, it is with great privilege and sense of responsibility that Edith Cowan University develops its vision for this new university campus.
The Perth City Deal
ECU City is the centrepiece of the Perth City Deal, a collaboration between the Australian and Western Australian Governments, and City of Perth.
