Monash University, Caulfield campus

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Monash University, Caulfield campus is a campus of Monash University located in Caulfield, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria. The university is comprised of 13,400 students of which 52.8% are female and 57.1% of students are enrolled in undergraduate courses.

1 History
2 Transport
3 Faculties at the Caulfield campus
4 External link

[edit] History

The campus was founded as the Caulfield Technical School in 1922. A Junior Technical High School was added in the 1950s, with the Technical School becoming a Senior Technical High School. They separated in 1958 with the junior school absorbed by other technical schools in the area and the senior school became Caulfield Technical College. In the 1970s it became the Caulfield Institute of Technology. In 1982 the Caulfield Institute of Technology amalgamated with the State College of Victoria at Frankston to form the Chisholm Institute of Technology. This Institurion merged with Monash University in 1990 and became Monash University, Caulfield campus. [1]

[edit] Transport

Caulfield campus is located 10 kilometres from Melbourne's city centre on Dandenong Road (Princes Highway). The trip from Melbourne will take about 25 minutes in peak hour and 15 minutes at other times. If you are coming from Melbourne Airport, add another 45 minutes in peak hour. (Melways map ref. 68 F1)

The university is on Melbourne tram route 3 and the journey takes about 35 minutes from the city centre.

Caulfield train station is only a hundred metres from the university and is located on the Frankston-Pakenham line. Trains depart every 20 minutes from Flinders Street Station in the Melbourne CBD.