Message from the Vice-Chancellor and President,
Professor Ed Byrne AO
Monash University is a new type of university for a new century, delivering research outcomes that change people's lives.
At Monash University the world is our campus. W ith a strong presence in Australia , Malaysia and South Africa and an active research and teaching centre in Prato, Italy, Monash has an impressive international footprint.
This unique profile - spanning three continents – means Monash researchers, teacher and students draw on perspectives and resources most other universities cannot match. That creates a powerful and exciting potential to find global solutions to global problems.
The answers we seek will not be found if we shelter within our own borders. It is essential to create new understandings and solutions by drawing on knowledge, perspectives and experience from around the world. All of this is possible at Monash University.
As one of the youngest universities in the world's top 50, Monash is unconstrained by tradition, making us well placed to deliver bold new solutions for some of the key problems of the 21 st century: tackling climate change; developing new approaches to peace and justice; finding new treatments for malaria, for cancer; charting a wiser path for our financial system.
Since first admitting students in 1961, Monash has forged its place among Australia's prestigious Group of Eight universities through dedication to the highest standards.
We have more than 56,000 students from more than 170 countries. Across the world there are another 235,000 alumni - our graduates - who are highly regarded by industry and in professions such as law, medicine, commerce, government, engineering, arts and the sciences.
Students, consider what your future could become after study at Monash University. The Monash Passport captures some of the best opportunities students are being offered in education today – with opportunities to enhance their learning through overseas study, volunteering for credit, leadership and skills training, and to participate in research.
Monash also attracts some of the most talented staff in the world and the University has research links with institutions throughout Asia, Europe, the Americas , Africa and the Middle East.
Researchers, think what you could achieve here at Monash. With the world's most powerful microscope now on campus, teamed with the Australian Synchrotron, the largest wind tunnel in the southern hemisphere, and new laboratories worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the University is positioned to make a profound impact on the way we live with each other – and our impact on the planet.
As one of the world's first truly international universities, Monash has set on a bold course. The challenge now is to realise our ambition to become a unique, truly international community of scholars that is a leader in the region – and in the world.
Please join us on that journey.
Professor Ed Byrne AO
Vice-Chancellor and President |
