
Monash University, Clayton campus is the main campus of
Monash University
Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...
located in
Clayton, which is a suburb of
Melbourne
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,
Australia
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, in the state of
Victoria.
The campus covers an area of over 1.1 km
2 and is the largest of the Monash University campuses, both in terms of size and student population. As of 2017, the Clayton Campus had over 41,000 students.
The campus has its own suburb and is one of the few university campuses in Australia to have its own postcode (3800), and shares the telephone number extension of 990 with the other city campuses of the university. The Campus features a wide range of native Australian flora and fauna, including over 2000 different kinds of plant life.
Location
The campus is located in the south-east Melbourne suburb of
Clayton. It contains the greatest density of high technology industries in Victoria.
The campus is accessible via several suburban bus routes, including the 630, 631, 703, 733, 737, 742, 802, 804, 862 and the
SmartBus
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900 routes. It is also accessible via the
route 601 shuttle bus service which operates to commute solely between the campus and the nearby
Huntingdale station. The university also operates inter-campus shuttle buses to its
Caulfield and
Peninsula
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campuses.
In 2018, Victorian premier
Daniel Andrews
Daniel Michael Andrews (born 6 July 1972) is an Australian former politician who served as the 48th premier of Victoria from 2014 to 2023. He held office as the leader of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 2010 and ...
announced that a new tram line would be constructed between
Caulfield station and
Rowville via
Dandenong Road
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and Wellington Road, which would connect the
Caulfield campus to the Clayton campus.
As well as the
Australian Synchrotron
The Australian Synchrotron is a 3 GeV national synchrotron radiation facility located in Clayton, Victoria, Clayton, in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The facility opened in 2007, and is operated by the A ...
, the Clayton Campus is adjacent to the
CSIRO
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an Australian Government agency that is responsible for scientific research and its commercial and industrial applications.
CSIRO works with leading organisations arou ...
.
Bosch,
Bayer
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,
Agilent Technologies
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and several other science and technology companies are also located nearby.
John Monash Science School
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is also located on the campus.
Facilities
Research
The Clayton Campus is home to large and sophisticated research facilities. The
Australian Synchrotron
The Australian Synchrotron is a 3 GeV national synchrotron radiation facility located in Clayton, Victoria, Clayton, in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The facility opened in 2007, and is operated by the A ...
, adjoining the campus, is one of the most recent and sophisticated of these. It is a 3
GeV
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synchrotron radiation
Synchrotron radiation (also known as magnetobremsstrahlung) is the electromagnetic radiation emitted when relativistic charged particles are subject to an acceleration perpendicular to their velocity (). It is produced artificially in some types ...
facility that opened on 31 July 2007. It is capable of viewing matter at the molecular level using
synchrotron light
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. Monash University contributed $5M towards the $206M cost of the synchrotron as a member of the funding partnership for the initial suite of beamlines.
The campus is also home to the
Monash University Accident Research Centre
The Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) is a research institute in the injury prevention field. The centre is located at the Clayton Campus of Monash University in Victoria, Australia.
The centre was founded in 1987 as a joint vent ...
, which includes an advanced driving simulator capable of simulating motor vehicle accidents. The campus also houses some of the world's largest
regenerative medicine
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stem cell
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research facilities, including the
Australian Stem Cell Centre, the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories, the Monash Medical Research Institute and the
Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute.
The Monash Antibody Technology Facility is also based at the Clayton Campus, which contains the largest monoclonal antibody production facility in the Southern Hemisphere. The largest wind tunnel in the Southern Hemisphere is another facility based on campus.
Many of these facilities are located in the
Monash Science Technology Research and Innovation Precinct (STRIP), a major development which houses corporate and university science and technology enterprises.
Sport
The Clayton Campus has the most extensive sporting facilities of any Monash campus. These are used by the campus' many sporting clubs, as well as recreationally by staff and students.
Facilities at the campus include: five football and cricket ovals (including a pavilion), 12 tennis courts, eight squash courts, a hockey field and pavilion, an American football field, a baseball field and pavilion, 21 badminton and table tennis courts, a martial arts hall, a fencing cage, a boxing studio and ring, a 1500m sq. gym, an aerobics studio and two swimming pools.
Culture
Clayton Campus plays host to a range of cultural events throughout the year, including plays, musicals, concerts, exhibitions and conferences.
Notable facilities include the
Robert Blackwood Hall (with a capacity of 1600 people), the Alexander Theatre (capacity of 508), the Student Theatre and the Monash University Museum of Art.
The campus has three major academic libraries: the
Louis Matheson Library (for arts and commerce), the Hargrave-Andrew Library (for engineering, science and technology) and the Law Library. It is also home to numerous smaller academic libraries, as well as the Student Union Recreational Library (formerly John Medley Library).
Social life
The campus is home to numerous restaurants, cafés and retail outlets, largely located in the Campus Centre.
The Notting Hill Hotel, known among students as The Nott, is a large pub located adjacent to the campus and forms a major part of the social life for students on campus. It contains three bars, two beer gardens and two bistros.
Now something of an institution, the Nott was founded in 1891 as a half way house for travellers, but boomed from the early 1960s after the establishment of Monash, expanding to cover an area of 0.8 hectares. It was owned and run by Australia's longest-serving publican, Kath Byer (known as the Reverend Mother by students) from 1936 until her death in 2010.
Monash Clayton also runs
Host Scheme, the largest student-based orientation program in the Southern hemisphere.
It has been in existence since 1974, and includes orientation camps, tours, BBQs, functions, festivals, and massive party called Host Scheme Night, which is run on the Monday night of O-week every year.
The Clayton Campus is also a short trip from
Chadstone Shopping Centre
Chadstone Shopping Centre (colloquially known as Chaddy) is a shopping centre located in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Malvern East. Chadstone Shopping Centre is the largest indoor shopping centre in Australia by both floor area and nu ...
, the largest shopping mall in the Southern Hemisphere.
Residential services
Monash Residential Services is home to over 3000 students and staff. There are twelve residential halls on campus, Deakin Hall, Farrer Hall, Howitt Hall, Normanby House, Richardson Hall, Roberts Hall, Briggs Hall, Jackomos Hall, Campbell Hall, Holman Hall, Logan Hall and Turner Hall, along with the South East Flats.
The Clayton Campus is also affiliated with
Mannix College (adjacent to the university).
Faculties at the Clayton campus
Although many faculties have a presence on multiple campuses, the majority are based at Clayton. The following faculties are based at Clayton Campus:
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Arts
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Business & Economics
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Education
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Engineering
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Information Technology
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Law
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Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences
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Science
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Shootings
In 2002, Huan Yun Xiang, an international student,
shot dead two students and wounded several lecturers and students. He also stabbed a doctor after he was jailed in correctional hospital.
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See also
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Radio Monash
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Monash College
Monash College is an educational institution in Docklands, Australia. It operates as a subsidiary of Monash University. Monash College is owned by Monash University
Monash University () is a public university, public research university bas ...
References
External links
Campus website
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Clayton
Landmarks in Melbourne
Buildings and structures in the City of Monash