The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest and oldest university in Victoria. Times Higher Education ranked Melbourne as the 33rd place in the world, while the University of the World's Academic Rank places Melbourne 40th in the world (both in Australia).
Melbourne's main campus is located in Parkville, a suburb north of Melbourne's central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria. Melbourne is a sandstone university and a member of the Group of Eight, University 21 and the Pacific University Association. Since 1872 various residential colleges have been affiliated with the university. There are 12 colleges located on the main campus and in the nearby suburbs offering academic, sports and cultural programs alongside accommodation for Melbourne students and faculty.
Melbourne consists of 11 separate academic units and is associated with various institutes and research centers, including the Walter Medical Research Institute and Eliza Hall, the Institute of Florey Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the Grattan Institute. Among the 15 Melbourne graduate schools, Melbourne Business School, Melbourne Law School and Melbourne Medical School are well known.
Four Australian prime ministers and five governors-general have graduated from the University of Melbourne. Nine Nobel Prize winners have been students or lecturers, mostly from Australian universities.
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History
The University of Melbourne was founded by Hugh Childers, Auditor-General and Finance Minister, in his first Budget Speech on 4 November 1852, which set aside £ 10,000 for the establishment of a university. The university was founded by the Act of Incorporation on January 22, 1853, with the power to grant degrees in art, medicine, law and music. The action provided for an annual donation of £ 9,000, while a special grant of £ 20,000 was made for the building that year. The foundation stone was laid on July 3, 1854, and on the same day the foundation stone for the State Library Class began in 1855 with three professors and sixteen students; of this student body, only four graduated. The original building was officially opened by Lieutenant Governor of the Victorian Colony, Sir Charles Hotham, on 3 October 1855. The first chancellor, Redmond Barry (then Sir Redmond), held the position until his death in 1880.
The inauguration of the university was made possible by the wealth resulting from Victoria's gold rush. The institute is designed to be "the influence of civilization" at the time of rapid settlement and commercial growth.
In 1881, recognition of women was seen as a victory over a more conservative council.
The 150th anniversary of the university was celebrated in 2003.
The Melbourne School of Soil and Environment was dissolved on 1 January 2015. The agriculture department and its food system moved together with veterinary science to form the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Agricultural Sciences, while other fields of study, including horticulture, forestry, geography and resource management, moved to the Faculty Science in two new departments.
VCA merge and controversy
In May 2009 the university "suspended" the Bachelor of Music Theater and Puppet courses on campus and there is a fear they may not return under the new curriculum.
A 2005 head of agreement on the merger of VCAs and universities states that the management of academic programs at VCA will ensure that "VCA continues to implement high-level autonomy for behavior and future academic program development so as to ensure their integrity and quality" as well as the identity of universities will be maintained. The new Dean Sharman Pretty outlined a drastic change under the university's plans for college in early April 2009. As a result, it is now questionable whether the university has upheld the deal.
Staff on campus responded to the change, claiming the university did not appreciate vocational arts training, and voiced fear over the future of quality training at VCA. Former arts minister Race Mathews has also considered a debate that expressed her hope that, "The University of Melbourne will not proceed with the proposed changes to the Victorian College of the Arts", and for "common sense" to win.
In 2011, the State Government of Victoria allocated $ 24 million to support art education at VCA and faculty renamed the College of Art College of Victoria and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
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Campus
Parkville campus is the main campus of the university. Originally established in a large area north of Grattan Street in Parkville, the campus has grown far beyond its limits, with many of its newly acquired buildings located on the outskirts of the nearby town of Carlton. The university is conducting an 'ambitious infrastructure program' to reshape campuses.
Housing college
The University of Melbourne has 12 residential colleges in total, seven of which are located in an arc around the cricket oval at the north end of the campus, known as College Crescent. The other five are outside the university area.
The residential college aims to provide students with accommodation and a holistic education experience.
Most residential colleges in universities also receive students from RMIT University and Monash University, Parkville campuses, with selected academies who also receive students from the Australian Catholic University and the University of Victoria.
Architecture
Some of the earliest campus buildings, such as the Old Quadrangle and Baldwin Spencer buildings, feature period architecture.
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Pustaka
The University of Melbourne Library has three million visitors making 42 million loan transactions annually. The general collection comprises over 3.5 million items including books, DVDs, photo slide, music scores and magazines as well as rare maps, prints and other published materials. The library also stores more than 32,000 e-books, hundreds of databases and 63,000 general journals and specialists in digital form.
Libraries include:
- Building Architecture and Library Planning (architecture, building and planning)
- Baillieu Library (art and humanity)
- Brownless Biomedical Library (medical and veterinary science)
- Eastern Resource Center (science, agricultural sciences, engineering, East-Asian Collection and Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library)
- Eunson's Giblin Library (business, economics and education)
- Legal Library (legal)
- Library of Lenton Parr Music, Visual, and Performing Arts - formerly VCA Library (visual and performing arts)
- Burnley (horticulture and plant science)
- Creswick (ecosystem and forest)
- Dookie (agricultural and veterinary science)
- Werribee (veterinary science)
Other campus
The University has four other campuses in metropolitan Melbourne in Burnley, Southbank, Hawthorn and Werribee.
Burnley campus is where taught horticulture courses. The performing arts course is taught on the Southbank campus. The trade courses are taught at the Hawthorn campus. Veterinary science is taught at the Werribee campus.
In the Victoria area, Creswick and Dookie campuses are used for forestry and agricultural courses. They previously housed several hundred residential students, but are now mostly used for short courses and research. The Shepparton campus is home to the Rural Health Academic Center for the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences.
The University is part-owner of Melbourne Business School, based on the Parkville campus, which ranks 46th in the 2012 Financial Times global rankings.
Organization
The university is managed to faculty and graduate schools, these are;
- Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Business and Economics
- Melbourne Graduate School of Education
- Melbourne Engineering School
- Melbourne Law School
- Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Agricultural Sciences
- Victoria College of Art and Melbourne Conservatory of Music
Government
University administration is based on parliamentary action, University of Melbourne Act 2009. The highest governing body is the "Council" of key responsibilities which includes the appointment of Vice Rectors and Principals, approving the strategic direction and annual budget, establishing operational policies and procedures and overseeing academic and commercial activities and risk management. The chairman of the board is the "Chancellor". The "Academic Board" oversees learning, teaching and research activities and advises the council on these matters. The "Committee of Convocation" represents graduates and members elected proportionately to the number of graduates in each faculty.
Endowment
The University of Melbourne has a donation of approximately $ 1,335 billion, the largest of the higher education institutions in Australia. However, Australia's contribution is relatively small compared to the richest US universities.
This was after a period of recovery of university difficulties after the Great Recession in 2008, where it shrank by 22%. This requires university restructuring including the cutting of some staff.
Academics
The university has 11 academic units, some of which incorporate graduate schools. The overall erosion and retention rate at university is the lowest and highest in Australia. The university has one of the highest admission requirements in the country, with a median ATAR of students who become 94.05 (2009). Furthermore, the university continues to attract outstanding students; for example, 50% of the Highest Supreme Establishments in the Premier Premier All-Round are enrolled at the University of Melbourne.
According to the University of the World Education Higher-QS 2009 rankings, Melbourne is the only Australian university that ranks the top 30 in all five core subjects with three subject areas in the top 20.
Research
The University of Melbourne claims that its research expenditures are second only to the Commonwealth of the Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). In 2010, the university spent $ 813 million on research. In the same year the university had the highest number of federal government Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) and International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS), as well as the largest total burden of Research Higher Degree (RHD) students (3,222 students) and RHD completion (715).
Melbourne Model
The University of Melbourne unlike any other university in Australia has so far offered nine general three year titles, not the more traditional specialty degree:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Agriculture
- Biomedical Degree
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Mouth Health
- Bachelor of Science
The Bachelor of Design is a new addition that begins in 2017; this relates to the closing of the Bachelor of Environments (2008-2016), which was controversially sacked in 2016 against the wishes of some participating Ministries who wanted to maintain an environmental focus. Changes to the Melbourne Model and the resulting curriculum are often described as the "Melbourne Model", held under the leadership of Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis in 2008. The university also offers graduate programs (including professional entry masters degrees) attending graduate programs with more specialization big.
In 2007, the University of Melbourne aims to offer 75% of postgraduate places as HECS (with the remaining 25% paying full fee).
A number of professional degrees are only available for graduate admission. This degree is at the master level in accordance with the Australian Qualification Framework, but is named "master" or "doctorate" after practice in North America.
Reactions to the Melbourne Curriculum
Groups, including trade unions and students, academics, and some students have criticized Melbourne Models, citing work and subject cuts, and the risk of "fooling" content. A group of students also produced a satire of music on the subject. This model has undergone an internal review, with a shift from Environment B to B Design into one result.
Ratings
Times Higher Education puts Melbourne 33rd globally (first nationally) in the iteration of 2016-2017 from its World Rankings annual ranking.
At QS World University Rankings 2018 , the University of Melbourne is ranked 41st globally (2nd in Australia).
In the latest CWTS Leiden Ranking , Melbourne is ranked 31st in the world (second nationally).
The university is ranked 40th globally (first in Australia) in the 2016 publication on the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) league table.
According to QS World University Subject Ranking 2015, the University of Melbourne is ranked 5th in the world for education, 8 in law, 13 in computer science and IT, 13 in arts and humanities, 14 in accounting and finance, 14 in dentistry and 18 in medicine.
Weapon
The university's emblem is a blue shield where the white "Victory" depiction holds its laurel bouquet above the stars of the Southern Cross. The motto, Postera crescam laude ("Later I will grow with praise" or, more freely, "We will grow in the price of future generations"), written on a scroll under the shield. Latin comes from the line at Horace's Odes : ego postera crescam laude recens .
Art and culture
The university is associated with several art institutions in the wider community. These include:
- The Ian Potter Museum of Art, which houses the university's visual art collections.
- Thirty-three cultural collections, embody the history of many of the academic disciplines taught in universities. These include the Grainger Museum Collection of cultural music artifacts; The Museum of Medical History, which includes the history of the medical profession in Victoria; and Harry Brookes Allen Anatomy and Pathology Museum, containing more than 8,000 specimens relevant to the teaching of medicine and other health sciences.
Student life
"Sunday Prosh"
"Prosh" is a well-known tradition at the University of Melbourne and is usually held in late September where student teams engage in various non-academic activities, including Go-Kart Races, 24 hour hunts, and college theater jokes. There are two types of teams that compete during Prosh, the "big" team (eg, Art Spoon, Psi-ence) and the "small" team (teams of less than 20 people). The winning team claims "Prosh Week Trophy" and "glory" lasting. Prosh Week is organized and organized by 'The Judges', 6 elusive numbers that were placed in the previous years of Prosh Week. These characters always have 'Judge Name' following common themes, for example 2015 saw the appearance of Judge literary characters, while 2016 saw the comic book character of Judge.
The origins of "prosh" are debated and no one knows why or how it started. One theory claims that "prosh" comes from a week dubbed "Posh week" because of the number of times students have to dress up in formal attire for glut University Balls University students host around the time. The effects of alcohol cause the words to become obscure, and thus "posh" to "prosh". Another theory claims that "prosh" is short for "procession", a week involving students parading around Parkville and the surrounding area for unknown reasons. Regardless of the origins of the contested "Prosh", it is now a week in which teams affiliated with the University of Melbourne complete a variety of unreasonable tasks.
Sports
The University has participated in various sports in its history and has 39 affiliate clubs. Sport is supervised by Melbourne University Sport.
The Melbourne University Sports Union is the predecessor of the Melbourne University Sports Association today. From the outset, the goal of the Union and now the association is to provide a collective voice to all sports clubs affiliated on the university campus. In 2004, the Melbourne University Sports Association celebrated its centenary.
Melbourne University Lacrosse Club (MULC) was founded in 1883 and is the oldest lacrosse club operating in the world.
Melbourne University Cycling Club (MUCyc) is associated with Australian Cycling and competes regularly in local and national races. In 2008 MUCyc won the seventh AUG championship in a row (2002-2008).
Melbourne University Tennis Club is one of five original clubs established for university students and staff, with tennis competitions and social tennis events held on campus in early 1882.
Melbourne Accelerator Program (MAP)
Since its founding in 2012, MAP has evolved into a program that hosts numerous public events, workshops and feeder programs to help improve skills and connect employers from all stages. The best startup on campus is granted access to MAP Startup Accelerator. By 2014, MAP is one of the two university accelerators Australia has mentioned in the global list of the top 25 university incubators produced by University Business Incubator Index.
The first MAP group in 2012 included Bluesky, 121 Cast, VenueMob, and New Wave Power Systems. In particular, Bluesky successfully entered the final of the StarTrack Online Retail Industry Awards 2014 for the best mobile shopping app against Australia's e-commerce adventure including The Iconic and 121Cast signed a major content partnership contract with Southern Cross Austereo.
The founders of the MAP school collectively collected more than $ 5.6 million in funding, creating more than 60 jobs and generating over $ 1.0 million in revenues. They address major problems in various industries, from medical devices and hardware, to financial technology, web solutions, e-commerce, and software.
Outstanding graduates
The University of Melbourne has produced many well-known alumni, with graduates who have held positions of Governor-General, Victorian Governor, Prime Minister of Australia, High Judge, Federal, Family and High Court of Victoria, Premiers of Victoria and elected leaders from other states and territories, recipients Nobel, First Lady of East Timor, minister of foreign countries, Mr. Mayor, academician, architect, historian, poet, philosopher, politician, scientist, physicist, writer, industry leader, army personnel, company leader, community leader, and many artists.
See also
- List of universities in Australia
- NICTA - national information and communication technology research center, supported by Melbourne University
- University of Melbourne Academic Gown
- Victorian Forest School
- Victoria Student Support Program
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External links
- The university website
- University of Melbourne history bibliography
- Youtube Channels
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