Melbourne School of Land and Environment

The Melbourne School of Land and Environment is a faculty of the University of Melbourne and is an important provider of Australian agricultural education, and is the largest of its type in that country. It was officially created on 1 July 1997 as a combination of most of the agricultural, forestry, horticulture and food science higher education in Victoria, Australia. Its founding brought together the Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture (Dookie, Longerenong, Burnley and Glenormiston Agricultural Colleges, Gilbert Chandler Food Technology College, McMillan Education Centre, the School of Forestry, Creswick) and the University of Melbourne's departments of Agriculture and Forestry.

In 2005, the University divested itself of the Longerenong, Glenormiston and McMillan sites. It also began to outsource much of the training provided at the other sites.

In 2005, the Institute of Land and Food Resources was renamed to the Faculty of Land and Food Resources.

In 2008, after the introduction of the "Melbourne Model", the Faculty of Land and Food Resources was renamed Melbourne School of Land and Environment (MSLE), providing "new generation degrees" Bachelor of Environments, while other undergraduate degrees formerly provided, including Bachelor of Food Science, Bachelor of Agricultural Science, Bachelor of Natural Resource Management and Bachelor of Animal Science were merged into the Faculty of Science, although many of the subjects are still provided by MSLE. MSLE still provides a wide range of postgraduate degrees that were provided before as Institute of Land and Food Resources.

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