1990 - Caulfield and Peninsula campuses established

Caulfield campus

Peninsula campus

On 1 July 1990, Monash University merged with Chisholm Institute of Technology to create the Caulfield and Peninsula campuses.

The Caulfield campus has undergone enormous change since its beginnings as the Caulfield Technical School in 1922. By the 1970s the once small, trade focussed technical school had become the Caulfield Institute of Technology. In 1982 the Caulfield Institute of Technology amalgamated with the State College of Victoria at Frankston to form the Chisholm Institute of Technology.

The Peninsula campus, located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, was originally home to Frankston Teachers’ College. The first principal and lecturers were appointed,in1958 and the first intake of students enrolled the following year. The college gained independence from the Education Department in 1973 and became known as the State College at Frankston. Following initial talks with Caulfield Institute of Technology in the early 1980s, the college became the Frankston campus of the newly-formed Chisholm Institute of Technology in 1982.

On 1 July 1990, both the Peninsula and Caulfield campuses of the Chisholm Institute amalgamated with Monash University. Today, the Peninsula campus has more than 3300 students with an emerging teaching, research and community focus on health and wellbeing. The campus offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in ambulance and paramedic studies, business and economics, early childhood and primary education, sport and outdoor recreation , midwifery and nursing and health science, physiotherapy and occupational therapy.