Summary

Monash University is a public institution that was established in 1958. It is located in the state of Victoria in southeastern Australia and is named after Sir John Monash, an Australian military leader and engineer. The Clayton campus, the largest of the university’s five Australian sites, is situated around 12 miles southeast of Victoria's capital city, Melbourne. Monash University also has a branch campus in Malaysia, a graduate school in China jointly run with Southeast University and several other affiliated international sites. Students at Monash hail from more than 100 countries. International students pay higher tuition at Monash, though some scholarships are available. Three of the university's Australian campuses offer on-campus student housing.

The university has many academic divisions: art, design and architecture; arts; business and economics; education; engineering; information technology; law; medicine, nursing and health sciences; pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences; and science. The language of instruction at Monash is English, and the university follows a semester-based academic calendar. Undergraduates can enroll in honors programs that offer a fourth year of study, heavily focused on research. In Australia, a bachelor honors degree is a higher-level credential than a bachelor's degree. Monash University has student-exchange agreements with upward of 100 partner universities in more than 25 countries. Some of the university's research centers and institutes are the Monash Injury Research Institute, the Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials and the Monash Sustainable Development Institute.