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Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Established in 1974 with the passage of the Deakin University Act 1974, the university was named after the second Prime Minister of Australia, Alfred Deakin.
Its main campuses are in Melbourne’s Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront and Warrnambool, as well as the online Cloud Campus. Deakin also has learning centres in Dandenong, Craigieburn and Werribee, all in the state of Victoria.
Deakin is one of Australia’s fastest growing research universities.89% of Deakin’s research is rated at or above world class. Its combined research funding increased from A$4.5 million in 1997 to A$47.2 million in 2015.
Deakin University was formally established in 1974 with the passage of the Deakin University Act 1974. Deakin was Victoria’s fourth university, the first to be established in regional Victoria and the first to specialise in distance education.
Deakin University’s first campus was established at Waurn Ponds in 1977.
The Burwood campus is on the site of the former Burwood Teachers’ College, and also takes in the former sites of the Bennettswood Primary School and the Burwood Secondary School. The teachers’ college conducted two-year training courses for Primary School teachers, and three year courses for Infant Teachers (females only). It provided live-on-site accommodation for country students.
As part of the Dawkins education reforms that were announced in 1988 by the Commonwealth government, a merger with Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education took place in 1990,
The Rusden Campus was closed in 2003 and all courses were transferred to the Melbourne Burwood campus. Rusden was subsequently acquired by Monash University for its student accommodation purposes.
The former Toorak Campus, located in Malvern, was offered for sale in 2006 as the University considered the campus surplus to its requirements.[7] which have since relocated to the International Centre and Business Building at the Melbourne Burwood campus.
The main building on the site was the 116-year-old historic
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