Muresk Institute

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The Muresk Institute is a department of Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. It is a leading education and training provider in agribusiness and rural science and technology. It is managed by Gary Hepworth.

In earlier years it was known as Muresk Agricultural College

It offers courses at two campuses, one at Northam, 100 km east of Perth and the other on the main Bentley campus of Curtin in Perth. A third campus at Collie is used for aquaculture laboratory and research.

Teaching facilities include a 17.20 km² working farm near Northam, field trial sites at Bentley and aquaculture facilities at Bentley, Fremantle, and Collie.

There are 500 students on the two campuses.