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Monash University is Australia's largest university with over 55,000 students. It has a total of eight campuses: six in Victoria, Australia (Clayton, Caulfield, Berwick, Peninsula, Parkville and Gippsland), one in Malaysia and one in Ruimsig, South Africa. The university also has two centres in London and one in Prato, Italy. The Prato campus services education in European Union Law, and comparative European Law.

It belongs to Australia's "Group of Eight" universities. It was recently ranked by The Times Higher Education Supplement THES at number 33 in its annual ranking of the world's top 200 universities for 2005. Its Engineering Faculty was also ranked number 1 in Australia and approximately number 16 in the world according to THES 2004/2005.

The university motto is Ancora imparo, (Italian) meaning 'I am still learning', a saying attributed to Michelangelo.

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University Beginnings

The university was established by an Act of the State Parliament of Victoria in 1958 and was the second university to be established in the state of Victoria. The original campus was in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Clayton (falling in what is now the City of Monash).

In 1990, a series of mergers were made between Monash University, the Chisholm Institute of Technology, the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education and the Victorian College of Pharmacy, making Monash the largest and the most diverse university in Australia. Courses are offered from diploma to doctoral level in the faculties of art and design, arts, business and economics, education, engineering, information technology, law, medicine, pharmacy and science. The university has a particularly notable law school which is based in Clayton. It is also home to a number of specialist research centres.

The university is named after the prominent Australian general Sir John Monash and took its first students in 1961. Many of the buildings in Monash University are also named after prominent Australians in various fields.

The current Vice-Chancellor of Monash University is Prof Richard Larkins.

Campuses

One of Monash's newest campuses, Berwick was built on the old Casey airfield in the south-eastern growth corridor of Victoria, Australia. The town of Berwick has experienced an influx of people and development in recent times, which includes the new campus of Monash University. With a presence in the area since 1994, the first Monash Berwick campus building was completed in 1996 and the third building in March 2004.

It is situated on a 55-hectare site in the City of Casey, one of the three fastest growing municipalities in Australia. Being a new campus, the students and staff enjoy state-of-the-art facilities.

Further information: Monash University, Clayton campus
The Monash Clayton campus covers an area over 1.1 km² and is the largest of the Monash campuses. In 2001, the State Government of Victoria decided to build the first Australian synchrotron adjoining Monash's Clayton Campus. When the Australian Synchrotron opens in 2007, it will be capable of viewing matter at the molecular level using synchrotron light. Monash University has contributed $5M towards the $206M cost of the synchrotron as a member of the funding partnership for the initial suite of beamlines.

The campus has its own suburb, telephone number extension (990) and postcode (3800).

Caulfield campus's multifaceted nature is reflected in the range of programs it offers through the faculties of Arts, Art & Design, Business & Economics, Information Technology, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and Engineering. It has also built an enviable reputation as a key centre for training and development of senior business people. The campus features a range of visual arts, educational and sporting events and facilities, and has well-established links with industry, government and the local community.

Gippsland campus is home to 2,000 on-campus students, 5,000 off-campus students and nearly 400 staff. The campus sits prettily in the Latrobe Valley's little town of Churchill, 142km east of Melbourne on 63 hectares of landscaped grounds. It is the only non-metropolitan campus of Monash University.

Parkville campus is also known as the Victorian College of Pharmacy. The Victorian College of Pharmacy has a reputation for innovation, particularly in the areas of formulation science and medicinal chemistry.

Peninsula Campus

The Peninsula campus of Monash University has a teaching and research focus on health and wellbeing. The campus is located in the bayside suburb of Frankston on the edge of Melbourne.

The campus is a thriving institution that offers a range of courses including course from its historic roots with Early childhood and Primary Education being the main stay.

Johannesburg Campus

Monash's South Africa campus is situated on the western outskirts of Johannesburg, and opened its doors in 2001. It has so far failed to meet budget and student projections, but adds a new element to the Monash mix. Home to roughly 800 students, it offers a limited range of undergraduate degrees, with plans for future expansion.

Further information: Monash University, Malaysia campus
The Monash University Malaysia (MUM) campus is often referred to as the Sunway campus, due to its location in the Bandar Sunway township in Malaysia, a development of the Sunway Group. Presently the campus shares a cluster of buildings with Sunway University College, however work is underway on a new independent campus, also in the Bandar Sunway area.

Prato Centre in

London Centre

Faculties

Student Organisations

There are approximately 55,000 students at the university, represented by individual campus organisations and the university-wide Monash Postgraduate Association.

See also

External links

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