The Eight Campuses of Monash University

In terms of student population, the Monash University inOnce a Frankston teachers college is the Peninsula
Melbourne is the largest university in Australia. Thiscampus of Monash in the south-eastern suburb in
public university has 56,000 students and 15,000 staffMelbourne. It was the Frankston campus of Chisholm
and has received its name after Sir John Monash. ItInstitute that merged with Monash in July 1,1990. These
was founded through an Act of Parliament in 1958,days, this Peninsula campus offers a wide range of
thus made it the first university to be instituted in theundergraduate as well as post graduate courses (such
state of Victoria for more than 100 years.as ambulance and paramedic studies, business, IT and
Monash University has a total of 8 campuses. Itsnursing) to over 3000 students.
original campus was situated in Clayton, which firstThe Gippsland campus was formerly a technical
admitted 363 pioneer students in 1961. The 100school for SEC(State Electricity Commission)
hectares of land on which this campus stood wasemployees in 1926. In 1968, it became the Yallourn
originally used for different purposes such as that forTechnical College. It officially became a part of the
the Talbot Epileptic Colony. From its humble beginningsMonash University back in 1991 and since then it has
in fields of mud and a library lodged in a derelictevolved to become today's provider of tertiary
Volkswagen factory, Clayton campus has improved ineducation for local national and international students.
size and in student population, it is now the largest of allBack in 1881, the School of Pharmaceutical Society of
8 Monash's campuses.Victoria provided training and development of
The Monash University Caulfield campus was originallyprofessionals in the field of pharmacy. After being
the Caulfield Technical School back in 1922 whichsituated in Swanston Street for 76 years, the then
offered procedural courses like carpentry to localVictorian College of Pharmacy relocated to Parkville in
residents. In the 1970s, the once small technical school1960. In the year 1992, it amalgamated with Monash
became the Caulfield Institute of Technology. From theUniversity and it name was changed to Faculty of
technical courses on blacksmith, carpentry andPharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in August
wheelwright, the institute then offered diploma and2008 for Monash University Parkville campus.
degree courses in computing, business, applied science,Berwick campus is among the newest campuses of
engineering, math and psychology. in 1982, the instituteMonash and was built on the old Casey airfield that
combined with the State College of Victoria(Frankston)accommodates 2000 students. The first building was
and formed the Chisholm Institute of Technology. Thecompleted in 1996, the second was done in 1999 and
Chisholm then merged with Monash in 1990, thusthe third was in 2004.
making it The Monash University Caulfield campus.