TAFE NSW - Western Sydney Institute is a large complex decentralised educational institute and is one of the largest Institutes of TAFE NSW

TAFE NSW

TAFE NSW is Australia's largest vocational education and training provider. Annually, the network trains over 400,000 people in campus, workplace, online, or distance education methods of education....

. The Institute annually enrolls more than 90,000 students and offers around 1,000 vocational education courses.

The administrative centre of the Institute is located at Kingswood

Kingswood, New South Wales

Kingswood is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales Australia. Kingswood is located 49 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith...

 in the far west of Sydney, Australia. The Institute employs approximately 1,450 full-time and 2,500 part-time staff.

Western Sydney Institute has campuses in nine locations in Western Sydney

Western Sydney

Western Sydney is a major region of Sydney, Australia. It has a number of different definitions but one consistently used is the region composed of the 11 councils which until recently were all members of the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils:* Auburn Council* Bankstown City Council*...

 and manages OTEN

OTEN

The Open Training and Education Network, often abbreviated OTEN, is the distance education and training provider of TAFE NSW. Students may enrol from anywhere in Australia, while operationally the program is run by the Western Sydney Institute of TAFE. OTEN courses are delivered using a range of...

, TAFE NSW's facility for state-wide distance education located in Strathfield

Strathfield, New South Wales

Strathfield is an Inner West suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Strathfield is located 14 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Municipality of Strathfield...

 in Sydney's Inner West

Inner West (Sydney)

The Inner West is a general term which is used to describe the metropolitan area directly to the west of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia...

. The Institute also has an international delivery arm and students from approximately 35 countries study with the Institute. The Institute also operates the Building Industry Skills Centre (BISC) at Castle Hill.

The Institute offers entry level courses for people looking to start their education, Certificate to Advanced Diploma level courses for people looking for career-related skills, and short courses for people looking to advance their skills and careers. Additionally, many courses have credit transfer arrangements with universities for people looking to go on to or returning from university.

Colleges

• Baulkham Hills College, Baulkham Hills
  Baulkham Hills, New South Wales
  Baulkham Hills is a suburb in the north-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Baulkham Hills is located 31 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of The Hills Shire...
  
  
• Blacktown College, Blacktown
  Blacktown, New South Wales
  Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Blacktown is located 34 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre of the local government area of City of Blacktown.Blacktown is the largest...
  
  
• Blue Mountains College
  • Katoomba Campus, Katoomba
    Katoomba, New South Wales
    Katoomba is the chief town of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia and the administrative headquarters of Blue Mountains City Council. It is on the Great Western Highway 110 kilometres west of Sydney and 39 kilometres south-east of Lithgow. Katoomba railway station is on the...
    
    
  • Wentworth Falls Campus, Wentworth Falls
    Wentworth Falls, New South Wales
    Wentworth Falls is a town in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales located 100 kilometres west of Sydney, and about 8 kilometres east of Katoomba, Australia on the Great Western Highway, with a Wentworth Falls railway station on the Main Western line. The town is situated at an elevation of...
    
    
• Mount Druitt College, Mount Druitt
  Mount Druitt, New South Wales
  Mount Druitt is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mount Druitt is located 43 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown, and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.There are numerous...
  
  
• Nepean College
  • Kingswood Campus Kingswood
    Kingswood, New South Wales
    Kingswood is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales Australia. Kingswood is located 49 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Penrith...
    
    
  • Penrith Campus, Penrith
    Penrith, New South Wales
    Penrith is a suburb in western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Penrith is located west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Penrith...
    
    
• Nirimba College, Quakers Hill
  Quakers Hill, New South Wales
  Quakers Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Quakers Hill is located 40 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown. Quakers Hill is part of the Greater Western Sydney...
  
  
• Richmond College, Richmond
  Richmond, New South Wales
  Richmond is a town in New South Wales, north-west of Sydney, in the Local Government Area of the City of Hawkesbury. It is located at a latitude of 33° 35' 54" South and a longitude of 150°45' 04" east, 19 metres above sea level on the alluvial Hawkesbury River flats, at the foot of the Blue...