Federation University Australia

Federation University Australia was formed when the former University of Ballarat and the Gippsland Campus of Monash University were amalgamated. Further historical information on the University is available through the Geoffrey Blainey Research C available through the Geoffrey Blainey Research Centre. The University's history dating back to 1870 has been documented and is available for viewing.The University of Ballarat, Australia was a dual-sector university with multiple campuses in Victoria, Australia, including its main Ballarat campus, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide that were authorized by the university to provide diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate programs.[3] The university offered traditional programs, including business, information technology, building and construction, engineering, mining, education, social sciences, nursing, hospitality, and art. The University of Ballarat's history goes back to the gold rush era of the 1850s. It began as a tertiary school in 1870.[1] In 1970, Founders Theatre was built at the Mt Helen campus after an appeal was made to commemorate the opening of the school 100 years earlier. The theatre opened in 1981.[4] The University of Ballarat was formed from a number of varying types of schools. The earliest was the School of Mines in 1870, which subsequently merged with other related organizations. Another was through Ballarat Base Hospital School of Nursing (1888). Ballarat College of Advanced Education was formed in 1976 with what began as a teacher's college in 1926, and Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, which began in 1967 when it split from the School of Mines. The university merged with Monash University's Gippsland (Churchill) campus in 2013, under the new name Federation University Australia. ...view more