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Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958. The university has a number of campuses, four of which are in Victoria (Clayton, Caulfield, Peninsula, and Parkville), one in Malaysia and another one in Indonesia. Monash has a research and teaching centre in Prato, Italy, a graduate research school in Mumbai, India, and graduate schools in Suzhou, China, and Tangerang, Indonesia.

Monash hosts a number of research facilities, including the Monash Law School, the Australian Synchrotron, the Monash Science Technology Research and Innovation Precinct (STRIP), the Australian Stem Cell Centre, Victorian College of Pharmacy, and 100 research centres and 17 co-operative research centres. In 2019, its revenue was over $2.72 billion (AUD), with external research income around $462 million. In 2019, Monash enrolled over 55,000 undergraduate and over 25,000 postgraduate students.

Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight research universities, a member of the ASAIHL, and is the only Australian member of the M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers, Universities and National Academies. It is one of the Australian universities ranked in the École des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech) ranking on the basis of the number of alumni listed among CEOs in the 500 largest worldwide companies.

History

Early history: 1950s

Established by the Monash University Act 1958 (No. 6184 (Vic)), the original campus was in the suburb of Clayton where the university was granted an expansive site of 100 hectares of open land. The 100 hectares of land consisted of farmland and included the former Talbot Epileptic Colony. The Tudor-style farmhouse built by the O'Shea family became the original Vice-Chancellor's House—now University House.

In 1961, the university enrolled 357 students at Clayton. By 1967, enrollment reached 21,000 students. In its early years, it offered undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in engineering, medicine, science, arts, economics, politics, education, and law. It was a major provider for international student places under the Colombo Plan, which saw the first Asian students enter the Australian education system.

The university was named after the prominent Australian general Sir John Monash. This was the first time in Australia that a university had been named after a person, rather than a city or state.

1970s onwards

From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, Monash became the centre of student radicalism in Australia. It was the site of many mass student demonstrations, particularly concerning Australia's role in the Vietnam War and conscription. By the late 1960s, several student organisations, some of which were influenced by or supporters of communism, turned their focus to Vietnam, with numerous blockades and sit-ins. In an event later known as the Monash Siege, students forced then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser to hide in a basement at the Alexander Theatre, in a major protest over the Whitlam dismissal.

In the late 1970s and 1980s, some of Monash's most publicised research came through its pioneering of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). Led by Carl Wood and Alan Trounson, the Monash IVF Program achieved the world's first clinical IVF pregnancy in 1973. In 1980, they delivered the first IVF baby in Australia.

In the late 1980s, the Dawkins Reforms changed the landscape of higher education in Australia. Under the leadership of Vice-Chancellor Mal Logan, Monash expanded further. In 1988, Monash University had only one campus in Clayton, with around 15,000 students. Around a decade later, it had 8 campuses (including 2 overseas), a European research and teaching centre, and more than 50,000 students, making it the largest and most internationalised Australian university.

Expansion in the 1990s

In 1990, a series of mergers between Monash, the Chisholm Institute of Technology, and the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education began. In 1991 a merger with the Victorian College of Pharmacy created a new faculty of the university. This continued in 1994, with the establishment of the Berwick campus.

Campuses and buildings

Clayton

The Clayton campus in Clayton covers approximately 110 hectares (270 acres) and is the largest of the Monash campuses. Clayton is the flagship campus for Monash, demanding higher ATAR scores than all of the other campuses, with the exception of Parkville. Clayton is home to the faculties of Arts, Business and Economics, Education, Engineering, Information Technology, Law, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and Science. The Clayton campus has its own suburb and postcode.

Various major scientific research facilities are located on or adjacent to the campus. Chief among these are the Australian Synchrotron and CSIRO.

The campus is also home to numerous restaurants and retail outlets, as well as student bars: Sir John's (located in the Campus Centre) and the Notting Hill Hotel (located down the street, founded in 1891), both of which are hubs of social life on the campus.

The campus is also home to a number of halls of residence, colleges and other on-campus accommodations that house several thousand students. Six halls of residence are located at the Clayton campus. There is an additional private residential college affiliated with the university. The Clayton campus contains the Robert Blackwood Hall, named after the university's founding chancellor Sir Robert Blackwood and designed by Sir Roy Grounds.

Caulfield

The Caulfield campus in Caulfield is Monash University's second-largest. Its multifaceted nature is reflected in the range of programs it offers through the faculties of Arts, Art Design & Architecture (MADA), Business & Economics, and Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. A major building program has been announced to expand teaching facilities, provide student accommodation, and redevelop the shopping centre.

Alfred

The Alfred campus is located in The Alfred Hospital and campus houses the Central Clinical School and the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, which contains the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and the Department of Forensic Medicine.

Parkville

The Parkville campus is located on Royal Parade in Parkville, approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the Melbourne city centre. The campus is home to the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The faculty specialises in pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical and formulation science, and medicinal chemistry. The campus also offers postgraduate degrees, including the Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Clinical Pharmacy.

Peninsula

The Peninsula campus is located in the bayside suburb of Frankston on the edge of Melbourne. The campus has a teaching and research focus on health and wellbeing, and is a hub of undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Nursing, Health Science, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Psychology - and particularly in Emergency Health (Paramedic) courses. The Peninsula campus also offers a range of courses including those from its historic roots with early childhood and primary education (during the 1960s and 1970s, the campus was the State Teachers' College), and Business and Economics (since the merger of the State Teachers' College with the Caulfield Institute of Technology to create the Chisholm Institute of Technology in 1982). The campus was also home to the Peninsula School of Information Technology, which in 2006 was wound back with Information Technology units previously offered being relocated to the Caulfield campus.

Governance and structure

Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor

The vice-chancellor is the chief executive of the university, who is head of Monash's day-to-day activities. The vice-chancellor is also the university president of Monash. (In North America and parts of Europe, the equivalent role is the president or principal.) The chancellor is chair of the university council and provides advice to the vice-chancellor, as well as having ceremonial duties. Council is the governing body of the university, established by the Monash University Act 2009.

Margaret Gardner was named as the vice-chancellor and president on 1 September 2014, the first woman to hold the position. After Gardner was appointed Governor of Victoria in 2023, Susan Elliott AM took over as interim VC, until the appointment of Sharon Pickering in February 2024, as 10th vice-chancellor and president of the university.

Megan Clark AC was appointed chancellor in 2024. Deputy Chancellors are Geraldine Johns-Putra, Peter Young AM KC, and John Simpson AM.

Faculties and departments

Monash is divided into 10 faculties. These incorporate the university's major departments of teaching and research centres.

The faculties are:

• Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (MADA)
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Business and Economics
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Engineering
• Faculty of Information Technology
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
• Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• Faculty of Science

Various other academic organisations exist alongside the faculties and research centres.

Academic profile

Research and publications

Monash University staff produce over 3,000 research publications each year, with research conducted in over 150 fields of study.

Research divisions

Monash is home to over 120 research centres and institutes. Major interdisciplinary research centres include the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, the Monash University Accident Research Centre, and the Monash Centre for Synchrotron Science. Some notable research centres also located at or affiliated with Monash University include the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, and the Monash Institute of Medical Research.

Some of the university's notable research achievements include the world's first IVF pregnancy, the first seatbelt legislation, the discovery of the anti-influenza drug Relenza (Zanamivir), the discovery that nerve stem cells could be derived from embryonic stem cells, and the development of a single-use oral anti-malaria drug.

Monash Sustainable Development Institute

The Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) was an interdisciplinary research institute with a focus on sustainable development, that included researchers from all 10 faculties of the university. In 2026, the institute was shut down, with its programs and operations moving, for the most part, into individual faculties or portfolios. As of 2024 it comprised more than 150 staff and PhD students. MSDI worked with industry and government, civil society, and other academics, and used the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a framework to guide its work. MSDI included four centres focusing on specific capabilities:

Working with Water, now a collaboration between Water Sensitive Cities Australia and RISE, is focused on solving issues relating to water use in urban environments, and access to safe water for all. It has transitioned into the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the Caulfield Campus.

The Climateworks Centre, until March 2022 branded ClimateWorks Australia, operates as an independent not-for-profit within Monash, and focuses on climate transition in Australia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific region. Its goal is to "bridge the gap between research and climate action". It is headed by CEO Anna Skarbek, who was appointed executive director at its inception. The centre won a Eureka Prize, worth A$10,000, for its first project in 2010. The project was a "low-carbon growth plan to measure the costs and benefits for business". The centre is not aligned to a faculty and will be administered by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise).

Student life

Student union

Monash students are represented by student unions in individual campus organisations. Graduate students are represented by the university-wide Monash Graduate Association, while undergraduate students are represented by:

• Monash Student Association (MSA) – Clayton Campus
• Monash Student Union Caulfield (MONSU Caulfield) – Caulfield Campus
• Monash Parkville Student Union (MPSU) – Parkville Campus
• Monash Student Union Peninsula (MONSU Peninsula) – Peninsula Campus
• Monash University Student Association (MUSA) – Malaysia campus

Monash students are also represented by academic associations and societies. These groups organise social events and represent student interests to the faculty among other goals.

Apart from the representative organisations, Monash has numerous other interest-based clubs and societies. Some notable student organisations include:

Monash Association of Debaters

Monash Whites Football Club

Student media

Esperanto is the student magazine of Monash's Caulfield campus. It is produced by students, for students and operates as part of MONSU Caulfield. Esperanto is one of the two print magazines at the campuses of Monash University, the other is Lots Wife. Esperanto is the current incarnation of a student magazine that has been based on Caulfield campus since 1970, when it was known as Caulfield Institute of Technology. Over time, it has been variously called Cautisone, The Naked Wasp and Otico. The current name was settled upon when the 2003 editor of Otico trademarked the name and logo.

The magazine is named after Esperanto the universal language constructed by L.L. Zamenhof.

Sports and athletics

Sport at Monash University is overseen by Monash Sport, a department of the university which employs over 200 staff. Currently, there are over 50 sporting clubs at the university. The Monash Blues, which competes in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA), plays its home games at Frearson Oval at the Clayton campus.

Each campus has a range of sporting facilities used by students and staff, including football, cricket, hockey, soccer, rugby and baseball fields; tennis, squash and badminton courts; gyms and swimming pools. The university also had an alpine lodge at Mount Buller until the end of 2011.

Monash's sporting teams compete in a range of local and national competitions, with the largest number of students of any Australian university playing in to the Australian University Games. The school won the AUG in 2008 and 2009.

Facilities at Monash are often used by a range of professional sporting teams. For example, the Australia national association football team, the Socceroos, used the Clayton campus and trained on-site in South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Halls and colleges

Residential halls

Monash Residential Services (MRS) is responsible for co-ordinating the operation of on-campus halls of residence. MRS manages a variety of facilities on campus at Clayton and Peninsula:

Mannix College

Mannix College, founded in 1969 and owned by the Catholic Church, was originally an all-male college administered by the Dominican order. It is named after Daniel Mannix (1864–1963), who was the Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne. Mannix is affiliated with the university, and located opposite the southern end of the Clayton campus.

The Newman Lecture series is an annual public lecture series held at Mannix College. It is named after Cardinal John Henry Newman and began in 1981. The inaugural lecture was given by Bishop Eric D'Arcy, and others by Sir Edward Dunlop, Robyn Williams, Michael Tate, Max Charlesworth, and Veronica Brady. In both 2006 and 2007, the lecture was presented as a play, both relating to the life of Daniel Mannix. The 2009 lecture, delivered by Gabrielle McMullen, celebrated 40 years of Mannix College.

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