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Rising higher, shining brighter W hen the University of the Sunshine Coast opened in 1996, it was the first greenfield university to open in Australia since 1971. Almost 20 years and $200 million in infrastructure later, it remains the most awarded public university for quality teaching in Queensland, with an independently assessed five-star teaching quality ranking, determined by a survey of its graduates, nine years in a row. 22