Not New South Wales in Australia but South Wales in … Wales.
They have a program(me) I’m interested in but so far in researching the school I have been unimpressed. I asked a question and their reply was basically cut-and-paste from the website. I need to find an advisor but going through their list of professors it is impossible to find out what their specialties are. The topology of their website can best be described as a Gordian knot. Oh and I need my degree to be accepted in the United States and I believe it is, at least for some programs.
So can’t speak to this particular university but I do note it’s an “ex poly”. That is a former a polytechnic (basically one step from community college in US parlance);that were allowed to change their name to university to remove the stigma associated with being a “poly”. Though my knowledge of such things is at least a quarter century out of date, and I don’t know how fair the criticism was even then (or of it was just snobbishness among the “real universities”)
It’s not some fly-by-night degree mill. As a collection of former technical/professional institutions, its tradition is stronger in teaching than in research.
It has a history of changing its title as it merges with/absorbs other smaller institutions, and if it’s gone for a federated administrative structure, that might explain why you’re finding it hard to deal with their website.
I would say, though, that the university sector is undergoing some financial turmoil at the moment, and the less prestigious institutions particularly so. And most universities wouldn’t give out very detailed information about specific teaching and curricula until nearer the start of a course.
The former polytechnic university I work for in nearby Bristol was (to my understanding) a collection of vocational training colleges (e.g. teacher training, nurse training) amalgamated into a single entity. So I think generally, you’d expect more vocational courses and less research, than with a ‘Russell Group’ (think ‘Ivy League’) university.