Victoria College, Melbourne

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Victoria College was a higher education institution in Melbourne. It was created as a result of the mergers in the 1970's of State Colleges of Victoria at Burwood, Lilydale, Prahran, Rusden and Toorak.

As a result of the Dawkins higher education reforms in the late 1980's, it merged with the Geelong based Deakin University, giving Deakin a presence in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Prahran became a campus of RMIT University. Lilydale became a campus of Swinburne University of Technology while the Rusden campus, although it initially became part of Deakin, was eventually to become a Monash University campus offering accommodation to its students.

The Burwood campus is now a thriving Deakin campus offering a broad range of courses from Bachelor level to Doctorates, with many of the best students in the state attending courses such as Law.

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