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Monash University is Australia's largest university with over 55,000 students. It has a total of eight campuses: six in Australia (Clayton, Caufield, Berwick, Peninsula, Parkville Gippsland), one in Malaysia and one in Ruimsig, South Africa. The university also has two centres in London and one in Prato, Italy. The Prato campus is mainly for students wanting to study EU Law.

It is one of Australia's "Group of Eight" leading universities, and was recently ranked by The Times Higher Education Supplement THES at number 33 in its annual ranking of the world's top 200 universities for 2005. Its Engineering Faculty was also ranked number 1 in Australia and approximately number 16 in the world according to THES 20042005.

The university was established by an Act of the State Parliament of Victoria in 1958 and was the second university to be established in the state of Victoria. The original campus was in the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Clayton (falling in what is now the City of Monash). In 1992, a series of mergers were made between Monash University, the Caulfield Institute of Technology, the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education and the Victorian College of Pharmacy, making Monash the largest and the most diverse university in Australia. Courses are offered from diploma to doctoral level in the faculties of art and design, arts, business and economics, education, engineering, information technology, law, medicine, pharmacy and science. The university has a particularly notable law school which is based in Clayton. It is also home to a number of specialist research centres.

The university is named after the prominent Australian general Sir John Monash and took its first students in 1961. Many of the buildings in Monash University are also named after prominent Australians in various fields.

The Monash Clayton campus covers an area over 1.1 km² and is the largest of the Monash campuses. In 2001, the State Government of Victoria decided to build the first Australian synchrotron adjoining Monash's Clayton Campus. When the Australian Synchrotronopens in 2007, it will be capable of viewing matter at the molecular level using synchrotron light. Monash University has contributed $5M towards the $206M cost of the synchrotron as a member of the funding partnership for the initial suite of beamlines.

The campus has its own suburb, telephone number extension (990) and postcode (3800).

The university motto is i, (Italian) meaning 'I am still learning', a saying attributed to Michelangelo.

There are approximately 55,000 students at the university, represented by individual campus organisations and the university-wide Monash Postgraduate Association.

The current Vice-Chancellor of Monash University is Prof Richard Larkins.

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