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Academic dress

The academic dress worn today is a modification and amalgam of the everyday dress worn by scholars and teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It consists of a gown with sleeves of a pattern appropriate to the degree, a trencher cap or a bonnet, and a scarf-like stole or a hood, which is the remnant of the cowl that was once worn to cover the head and shoulders.

The style of academic dress adopted by Monash University is based on that of the University of Cambridge, with the exception of the dress for higher doctorates, which is based on that of the University of Oxford, and is as follows:

  • Diplomates and Graduate Certificates - a black gown and trencher cap with a black stole faced with the appropriate faculty colour.
  • Bachelors - a black gown and trencher cap with a turquoise blue hood lined to a depth of 10 centimetres with the appropriate faculty colour.
  • Masters - a black gown and trencher cap with a turquoise blue hood fully lined with the appropriate faculty colour.
  • Doctors of Education - a black gown faced with peony red, a turquoise blue hood fully lined with banana and edged with peony red, and a black velvet bonnet with peony red cord and tassels.
  • Doctors of Philosophy - a black gown faced with peony red, a turquoise blue hood fully lined with peony red and edged with the appropriate faculty colour, and a black velvet bonnet with peony red cord and tassels.
  • Higher doctorates - a festal scarlet gown faced with the appropriate faculty colour, a scarlet hood fully lined with the same colour as the facing of the gown, and a black velvet bonnet with gold cord and tassels.

Faculty colours

The faculty colours are as follows:

  • Art and Design - spectrum orange
  • Arts - old rose
  • Business and Economics - peacock green
  • Education - banana
  • Engineering - rose beige
  • Information Technology - spectrum green
  • Law - white
  • Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences - victrix blue
  • Pharmacy - buttercup
  • Science - primrose.

Academic dress hire and purchase

Academic dress may be hired or purchased. `Academic Dress' is located in Studio 5, Short Courses Centre, building 51. Opening hours are Monday to Thursday, 9 am to 12 noon and 2-4.30 pm; Friday, 9 am to 12 pm and 2-3 pm. Contact: Telephone +61 3 9905 3146 or email academic.dress@adm.monash.edu.au.