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Melbourne home to top universities
SOME of Australia’s best universities are located in Melbourne. They are bound to catch the eye of any eager graduate-aspiring candidate:

Monash University
Named after prominent Australian Sir John Monash, Monash University was established by an Act of Parliament in 1958, making it the first university to be established in the State of Victoria for 106 years.
From its first intake of 347 students at Clayton in 1961, the university grew rapidly in size and student numbers so that by 1967, it had enrolled more than 21,700 students. In the decades that followed, Monash developed a wide range of courses in arts, commerce, engineering, education, law, medicine and science. It also established new buildings across the Clayton site and created a thriving cultural atmosphere with outstanding performing arts and concert programs and a growing collection of contemporary Australian art.
In 1990, Monash moved beyond the borders of Clayton and merged with the Chisholm Institute of Technology, creating the university’s Caulfield and Peninsula campuses. This was followed by the establishment of the Gippsland campus, which, after an initial period as Monash University College Gippsland, officially became part of the Monash University family in 1991. The following year, the Victorian College of Pharmacy joined the rapidly growing university as the Parkville campus.
The growth continued apace with the establishment of a new campus in Berwick in 1994 within the south-eastern growth corridor of Melbourne. In 1998, the Malaysian Ministry of Education invited Monash to set up a campus in Malaysia jointly with the Sunway Group. Monash University Malaysia was established in 1998 -- the first Monash campus outside Australia. A second off-shore campus was opened in South Africa in 2001.
Deakin University
Deakin is one of Australia’s largest universities, yet campuses in Melbourne, Geelong and Warrnambool have a strong community feeling and provide a supportive study environment. You’ll discover that it is easy to find your way around, make friends and get involved in campus activities. Apart from a range of innovative courses, vibrant campuses and outstanding services and facilities, students state that the thing they notice most about Deakin is that it is a supportive and friendly place to study. Campuses have a lively environment with lots of room for you to socialise and relax. Staff are knowledgeable, passionate and approachable, and services include many clubs and societies that will see you expand one’s interests and make new friends.
At Deakin you can undertake a ‘combined’, or as they are sometimes described, a ‘double’, degree. Some examples include:
• the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Laws;
• the Bachelor of Commerce and the Bachelor of Laws;
• the Bachelor of Teaching and the Bachelor of Arts.
Each of Deakin’s four campuses has excellent teaching and learning facilities. You are supported by 24-hour computer laboratories, with email and internet access for study purposes. Libraries on each campus provide the latest electronic information services for access to major Australian and international research collections. Facilities are constantly evolving, ensuring you have access to the latest equipment and industrystandard facilities, such as Deakin’s Motion.Lab, Australia’s most technologically advanced motion capture facility, at the Melbourne Campus at Burwood.
Swinburne
Swinburne was the only university in Victoria to receive five star ratings for Teaching Quality and the Overall Education Experience News. Swinburne’s main campus is just 10 minutes from central Melbourne. Swinburne University of Technology has been educating students for almost 100 years. In fact, if you join us for 2008 you can take part in centenary celebrations! We have grown into a multidisciplined, multi-campus institution with more than 22,600 students in 2006, including 5,500 international students from around the world. Swinburne’s strengths are built around a solid technology base and influential linksto industry, plus ground-breaking specialist research centres. We have a flexible and forward-thinking understanding of international government, education and business priorities, and are responsive to the changing needs of industry. A truly international university, Swinburne has developed successful relationships with universities around the world, and established Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak campus) in Malaysia, in 2000. There is extensive collaborative research and mobility of teaching staff between Swinburne and par tner universities. Swinburne is the only Australian university invited to be a member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU), which aims to foster student and staff mobility and share innovative programs to give students a competitive edge in today’s global employment market. In 2006 the Northeastern Study Centre was set up at Swinburne’s Hawthorn campus, under a landmark agreement between Swinburne and Northeastern University (Boston, USA) to offer combined courses. Because Swinburne offers courses in both the higher education and vocational teaching sectors, we provide distinct advantages for international students. Qualifications, ranging from Certificates, Diplomas, Bachelors, Masters and Professional Doctorates to PhDs, allow you to choose pathways to suit individual interests and career aspirations. All Swinburne programs comply with Australian Government requirements. In 2005, Swinburne was ranked in the top 5 in Australia for learning and teaching quality by the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training. These rankings are a measure of student retention and progression rates, success in finding employment or continuing to higher studies post-graduation, and overall satisfaction with teaching and course quality • all key performance indicators for any university. As a result of this excellent ranking meant that Swinburne was allocated $3.852M from the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund, which is being used to enhance teaching quality across Higher Education, including $242k towards international accreditation for Business Programs and $1.05M for teaching equipment.
La Trobe University
La Trobe University has been acknowledged as a leading higher education institution by a range of international organisations in recent years. The main campus of La Trobe University in Melbourne (Bundoora) is situated in spacious parkland and includes The Melbourne Wildlife Sanctuary. This metropolitan campus also houses the main research and teaching facilities of the University, including the Research and Development Park , a world renowned library, multi-media facilities and a hospital including student medical services.
The Melbourne (City) campus offers postgraduate courses in business, law and health sciences. In a move to establish a major presence in Melbourne’s CBD, a new City campus will open in 2009. The new campus will be a hub for teaching and research, offering an expanded range of pathway, undergraduate and postgraduate courses, with an emphasis on professional, executive and international studies. The University also has campuses in regional Victoria, in Bendigo, Albury-Wodonga, Shepparton, Mildura and Beechworth. This network of campuses provides learning opportunities for students in regional areas, adds diversity to the University, and through programs of regional engagement contributes in significant ways to the development of regional Victoria.