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Monash at a glance

Campuses and study centres

Monash has six Australian campuses, five of which (Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton, Parkville and Peninsula) are located in and around metropolitan Melbourne. The sixth campus is located at Gippsland in regional Victoria, 160 kilometres east of Melbourne.

In 1998, Monash opened a campus in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and in 2001, the eighth Monash campus opened in the northwest of greater Johannesburg, South Africa.

In addition, Monash has developed an international centre in Prato, Italy which provides opportunities for research, international conferences, study and cultural tours, summer schools, short courses, workshops, art and design exhibitions and performances.

Faculties

Monash is a broad-based research and teaching institution with 10 faculties: Art and Design; Arts; Business and Economics; Education; Engineering; Information Technology; Law; Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences; Pharmacy; and Science.

Monash statistics

Student enrolments

Total student enrolments: 59,925
(Based on 2009 end-of-year data)

Gender Residency status
Female 33,917 Domestic 38,811
Male 26,008 International 21,114

Attendance mode Course type
On-campus 50,259 Higher degree research 3933
Off-campus 6695 Postgraduate coursework 12,605
Multi-modal 2971 Undergraduate 42,720
Non-award 667

Enrolments by campus
Berwick 1994
Caulfield 14,328
Clayton 26,689
Gippsland 4430
Parkville 1596
Peninsula 3915
South Africa 2166
Sunway 4807

Enrolments by faculty*
Art and Design 1582
Arts 9534
Business and Economics 18,079
Education 4625
Engineering 4618
Information Technology 3193
Law 3245
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences 9260
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 1644
Science 4125
Other 20

* The managing faculty is the faculty responsible for managing individual courses. A student is enrolled through one particular faculty, but the load generated may be spread across multiple teaching faculties.

 

Staff

Total number of staff (and full-time equivalent): 15,262 (7552)#

# Does not include locally employed staff at the Sunway campus in Malaysia and Monash South Africa. The staff headcount figures for 2008 for these campuses are Sunway, 495 (FTE 465) and Monash South Africa, 230 (FTE 220).

Gender Classification
Female 8748 (4147) Academic 8321 (3766)
Male 6514 (3405) General 6941 (3786)