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Monash University was established under an Act of the Victorian Parliament on 30 May 1958. A body politic and corporate under the name ‘Monash University’, it has perpetual succession, a common seal and is capable in law of suing and being sued. The responsible minister in the Victorian Parliament is the Minister for Education and Training.
The objectives of the university, as stated in section 5 of division 1 of the Monash University Act, are:
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to provide facilities for study and education and to give instruction and training to all such branches of learning as may from time to time be prescribed by the statutes, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, pure science, applied science and technology, engineering, agriculture, veterinary science, medicine, law, arts, letters, education and commerce;
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to aid by research and other means the advancement of knowledge and its practical application to primary and secondary industry and commerce;
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to confer after examination the several degrees of bachelor, master and doctor and such other degrees and diplomas as are prescribed by the statutes; and
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to provide facilities for university education throughout Victoria and elsewhere by the affiliation of existing institutions, organisations or bodies to the university, by the creation of new institutions, organisations or bodies to be affiliated to the university, by the establishment of tutorial classes, correspondence classes, university extension classes and vacation classes and by such other means as the Council deems appropriate.
The governing authority of the university is the Council. Its subordinate standing committees, other boards and committees, the vice-chancellor and senior officers of the university, advise the Council.
The university provides post-secondary education and study facilities primarily to the Victorian community on campuses at Clayton, Caulfield, Frankston, Gippsland, Berwick, and Parkville. It also has campuses in Malaysia and South Africa. In addition, the university has over 100 bilateral institutional links which enable academic and research collaboration and student exchange programs. The university provides distributed learning to students in approximately 40 countries.
Faculties of the university are Arts; Art and Design; Business and Economics; Information Technology; Education; Engineering; Law; Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences; Science; and the Victorian College of Pharmacy. Each provides undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and diplomas.
In addition to these faculties there are centres that express the research interests of staff members and provide specialised nuclei for postgraduate and some undergraduate study. Many of these act as a focus for interdisciplinary research. The work of the university is expanded and supported by affiliated institutions, which cooperate in various ways with teaching and research programs at Monash.
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