Deakin University
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Deakin University is an Australia
n public university
with nearly 40,000 higher education
students in 2010. It receives more than A$600 million in operating revenue annually, and controls more than A$1.3 billion in assets. It received more than A$35 million in research income in 2009 and had 835 research students in 2010. In 2009, its academics authored 33 books, 233 refereed conference papers, and 705 refereed journal papers. It has campuses in the coastal cities of: Geelong, Melbourne
, and Warrnambool
, Victoria
. The University was named after the leader of the Australian federation movement and the nation's second Prime Minister
, Alfred Deakin
.
and the Federal Government of Australia in September 1970, to establish Victoria's fourth university in regional Victoria. Three locations at Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo were considered.
In its report on 14 December 1973, the Federal Government's Australian Universities Commission recommended that a university be established at Geelong. This led to the declaration of Deakin University as a university in 1974, by an Act of Parliament referred to as the DEAKIN UNIVERSITY ACT 1974. Act No. 8610/1974. Sites in Ballarat and Bendigo became independent Colleges of Advanced Education, and consequently did not have recognised university status. The three other commissioned Victorian universities include: The University of Melbourne established in (1853), Monash University
(1958), and LaTrobe University (1964).
The University was officially opened in 1977 by the then Premier of Victoria Sir Rupert Hamer
at the original campus at Waurn Ponds, Geelong and the University appointed the Cambridge
educated Prof. Frederic Jevons
as its foundation Vice-Chancellor and Mr. Peter Thwaites as its foundation Chancellor.
Upon establishment, Deakin took over the higher education courses of the Gordon Institute of Technology (now the Gordon Institute of TAFE
), and relocated them to the newly acquired 370 Hectare Waurn Ponds campus at Geelong. It also absorbed the State College of Victoria, Geelong (a teacher's college) and transferred it to Waurn Ponds as well. Deakin enrolled its first students at Waurn Ponds in 1977.
In 1986, the University appointed its second Vice-Chancellor in educationalist Prof. Malcolm Skilbeck to lead the University through the early phases of higher education reform in Australia namely the Federal Government's Dawkins Revolution
. A merger with Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education
took place in August 1990 followed by most of Victoria College
in December 1991.
In 1992, Prof. John Hay arrived from Monash University
to become Deakin's third Vice-Chancellor to lead it through the most turbulent period of change in its history by bringing together several institutions, each with its own distinctive mission, to complete the reconstruction and establishment of a new and larger Deakin University.
In the same period, debate ensued in Geelong about the fate of the city's historic waterfront woolstores, known as the Dalgety's Woolstores, which were dilapidated amidst an area undergoing major development. Some buildings were demolished despite a community outcry, and the fate of the remaining buildings was unclear until Deakin University acquired the site for a sixth Campus. Major renovations took place over several years, and in 1997, the Woolstores campus (now the Geelong Waterfront Campus) opened.
These mergers enabled the University to grow substantially from a pre-merger student population of approximately 8,000 in 1990 to approximately 25,000 higher education students in 1995. The University's student population trebled in just five years and the developments created a large multi-campus University spanning 300 kilometres covering six campuses: three in Melbourne
in the suburbs of Burwood
, Clayton
(Rusden campus), and Malvern
(Toorak campus); two in Geelong at Waurn Ponds
and Geelong Waterfront; and one at Warrnambool
).
In 1993, the University established Victoria's fourth law school
, after Melbourne (1856), Monash (1964) and La Trobe (1992). Its establishment was unique, in that it was the first, and only, law school in Victoria to offer distance learning law degrees as well as traditional on-campus law degrees. The school's range of courses include Bachelor of Laws
, Master of Laws
and PhD
. Two law school chapters were established, one each at the Burwood and Geelong campuses respectively.
In 1997, nuclear physicist Prof. Geoff Wilson became the fourth Vice-Chancellor and put the University on the path to redevelop the Burwood campus, and rationalise surplus campuses. The Burwood campus saw the construction of several multi-storey buildings including the seven storey west-facing "C" building as depicted in figure 2 below.
In 2000, the University decided to close the Rusden campus, which held mainly the Faculties of Environmental Science and Teaching. The campus was considered surplus to the University's requirements and was progressively closed between 2001 and 2003, with students and courses relocated to the Burwood campus. Rusden's buildings have since been converted into student accommodation and now forms part of Monash University's Clayton campus.
In 2003, lawyer Prof. Sally Walker arrived from The University of Melbourne to become Deakin University's first female, and fifth, Vice-Chancellor. During this phase of leadership, courses and student numbers continued to rise. New courses including medicine, occupational therapy, and optometry were to be introduced over her term, and the student population reached nearly 40,000 higher education students by year 2010.
On 8 April 2006 the then Prime Minister Mr John Howard
announced that a new Medical School would be established at Deakin University. In his speech delivered at the Victorian Liberal Party State Council in Melbourne on 8 April 2006 he said: 'I am particularly pleased to announce the Medical School at Deakin University which will ensure the development of a strong rural and regional medical workforce throughout western Victorian region.'
In 2007, the Toorak campus in Malvern was closed and sold as it was considered surplus to the University's requirements. Its resources and courses were relocated to new facilities at the Burwood campus. At this point, the Burwood campus became known as the Melbourne campus at Burwood.
On 1 May 2008, Victoria's third Medical School was officially opened by the then Prime Minister of Australia Mr Kevin Rudd
and the then Victorian Premier Mr John Brumby
. The Medical School commenced with 120 Commonwealth supported medical students with Prof. Brendan Crotty being appointed the Foundation Head of the School of Medicine. There are now three Medical Schools in Victoria with the first being established at The University of Melbourne
in 1862, and subsequently Monash University
in 1958.
In 2008 Deakin introduced changes to its Academic term
replacing the two-term semester system with the three-term trimester.
In 2010, the University's sixth Vice-Chancellor Prof. Jane den Hollander arrived from Curtin University in Western Australia. The University introduced courses in Optometry
to begin in 2012.
In 2011, the University appoints Prof. Harrison Weisinger as Foundation Director and Chair of Optometry and Prof. Michael Berk to the Foundation Chair in Psychiatry.
The Geelong Waterfront campus is Deakin's newest campus, located on Corio Bay
, in the central business district of Geelong. Originally built as the Dalgety's Woolstores in 1893, the buildings have been extensively renovated to create a modern campus centre, whilst retaining most of the original internal elements.
More than 2,300 (A.D. 2010) students are based at the Geelong Waterfront campus which hosts the schools of: Architecture and Building, Health and Social Development and Nursing. The schools offer courses in architecture and construction management, nursing, occupational therapy and social work.
Services and facilities include a 320-seat lecture theatre, cafe, Library, bookshop, 24 hour computer laboratories, 24 hour on site security, medical centre and counselling services, multi-faith prayer rooms, Computer Aided Design (CAD) laboratories, purpose built occupational therapy laboratory and design studios.
A $37 million redevelopment of the Dennys Lascelles Building has increased the capacity of this campus, allowing the University to provide an expanded range of courses. The building houses the Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library and the Alfred Deakin Research Institute, an interdisciplinary teaching and research centre covering political science, public policy and governance, international relations, globalisation, journalism and communications.
, 72 kilometres south west of Melbourne. The campus, serviced by the Princes Highway and the Geelong Ring Road, is approximately 5 kilometres from the Geelong Central Business District and is in close proximity to Bells Beach
and the Great Ocean Road
and has a student population of 4,700 (2010) pursuing courses in arts, business, education, engineering, management, media and communication, law, medicine, health sciences, information technology, psychology and science.
Services and facilities include a fitness club and sports hall, tennis courts, walking/running track and sporting fields (cricket, football, soccer, gridiron, archery, golf driving range), Library, bookshop, 24 hour computer laboratories, 24 hour on-site security, medical centre and counselling services, multi-faith prayer rooms and cafe and food outlets. On-campus accommodation is provided for 447 students in 40 units. Unit sizes vary from two bedrooms to 29 bedrooms. All units can be mixed gender and multicultural. The campus is home to the Geelong Technology Precinct, which provides research and development capabilities and opportunities for university–industry partnerships and new enterprises in the region.
Deakin's Medical School opened on this Campus in 2008 with 120 full-time graduate students. In 2009 around 250 students were studying Deakin's Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS
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The largest campus of the University is in Melbourne's eastern suburb of Burwood
on Burwood Highway, about 45 minutes by tram (route 75
) from the Melbourne CBD. Located alongside Gardiner's Creek parklands between Elgar Road on the north-west border and Mount Scopus Memorial College
on the east border, it has had a number of new multi-story buildings constructed in recent years and the campus has about 19,000 (2010) undergraduate and postgraduate on-campus students pursuing courses in arts, business, education, environment, health sciences, information technology, law, management, media and communication, nursing, psychology, public health and health promotion, science, sport and visual, performing and creative arts.
Some facilities at the Melbourne campus include multi-story car parks, the Deakin University Art Gallery, Motion.Lab - motion capture facility, a purpose built gymnasium and sports hall, cafes, food outlets and a bar, the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Test Centre, bookshop, a refurbished Library, 24 hour computer laboratories, 24 hour on-site security, medical centre and counselling services and multi-faith prayer rooms. The campus provides single room on-campus accommodation for 200 students in a mixed gender and multicultural environment.
, close to local surf beaches and popular tourist attractions in close proximity to the Great Ocean Road
and The Twelve Apostles. The 94 hectare site is approximately five kilometres from the Warrnambool CBD, serviced by the Princes Highway
and by its own railway station, and bus services from Melbourne and Geelong, as well as locally in Warrnambool between the campus and the city.
The campus has an on-campus student population of more than 1250 (2010) pursuing courses in arts, business, education, environment, health sciences, law, management, marine biology, nursing and psychology.
On-campus facilities include a comprehensive Library, fitness club, basketball, netball and tennis courts and a golf course, medical centre and counselling services, 24 hour computer laboratories, 24 hour on-site security, cafe, bookshop and multi-faith prayer rooms. The campus has 25 accommodation units with between four and 21 bedrooms per unit, providing on-campus accommodation for 240 students in a mixed gender and multicultural environment.
and Warrnambool. Many full-time and part-time students are able to tailor their courses to meet their needs and circumstances. Nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Deakin University study in the off-campus mode. Students enrolled in off-campus units study the same units as on-campus students except instead of attending lectures and classes, they receive course and study materials by post and online via the internet. Many courses have a residential component which provides opportunities for networking with other students and staff face-to-face. Deakin University is one of two Australian universities to be accredited with the Distance Education and Training Council
of the United States
.
for its student accommodation purposes.
and was sold in 2007 as the University considered the campus surplus to its requirements. The courses and resources were relocated to the Melbourne campus at Burwood in November 2007.
As a Deakin campus, it was home to Deakin Business School
, Deakin University English Language Institute, and the Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology
, which have since relocated to the International Centre and Business Building on the Melbourne campus at Burwood.
The main building on the site is the 116 year old historic Stonnington Mansion and is located amongst traditional gardens. The Stonnington Stables art gallery and the University's contemporary art collection were located here, which has since relocated to the Deakin University Art Gallery at the Melbourne campus at Burwood.
The sale of the campus provoked public outrage as it involved the mansion which was at risk of redevelopment by property developers.
Faculty of Business and Law
Faculty of Health
Faculty of Science and Technology
Institutes
Research institutes
Strategic research centres
award twice. The first award came in 1995-1996 for "Outstanding Technology in Education" in which the then Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating
presented Deakin with the award and commended it on its success despite its lack of "sandstones
" referring to its short period of existence as a university.
On 25 August 1999, Deakin won its second award when it tied with the University of Wollongong
to win the 1999-2000 prize. Deakin's success was for its "Outstanding Education and Training Partnerships". In presenting the award, the Federal Treasurer Peter Costello
commended Deakin and Wollongong in stating: "These are two great institutions. They are the best of the best at what they do".
Deakin was also commended with seven Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning at the 2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Awards.
In 2005, Deakin's Library was nationally acknowledged for the outstanding provision of off-campus services in the Australian Awards for University Teaching.
In its 2010 allocations, the Australian Research Council
awarded Deakin 13 Discovery and 10 Linkage Round 1 awards. The wins placed Deakin 16th in the number of Discovery Grants awarded and equal 6th in the number of Linkage grants awarded amongst Australian Universities.
It has developed meaningful, reciprocal research and educational partnerships in India with the official opening of the Deakin India Research Institute (DIRI) in Hyderabad and more than 50 other Indian research partners.
In 2007, the list of the top ranked universities in The Times Higher Education-Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings
was expanded to 400 institutions worldwide. In this ranking, Deakin University was placed for the first time at equal 374th. In 2009, THES and QS split to conduct their own rankings from 2010. In 2009, the Russian Global University Ranking ranked the world's top 500 universities. Each university was placed into one of five bands. Deakin was placed in the third band (201-300) with a ranking of 283-284.
The Australian Good Universities Guide publishes an annual rating of the status and standing of Australian universities. The university's status and standing for each criterion was:
Note: N/P - No publication available.
Research produced by the Melbourne Institute
in 2006 ranked Australian universities across seven main discipline areas: Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, and Science.
For each discipline, Deakin was ranked:
.*R1 refers to Academics' rankings in tables 3.1 - 3.7 in the report. R2 refers to Articles and Research rankings in tables 5.1 - 5.7. No. refers to the number of institutions compared with Deakin.
.**As Deakin's Medical School will commence operations in 2008 there are no data available.
Deakin ranks 24 in Australia, 29 in the Oceania, and 609 in the world in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities:
Deakin has not yet been ranked in the world rankings produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Many large Australian and international organisations are associated with DeakinPrime's activities.
Approximately 50,000 students are participating in programs with DeakinPrime.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n public university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
with nearly 40,000 higher education
Higher education
Higher, post-secondary, tertiary, or third level education refers to the stage of learning that occurs at universities, academies, colleges, seminaries, and institutes of technology...
students in 2010. It receives more than A$600 million in operating revenue annually, and controls more than A$1.3 billion in assets. It received more than A$35 million in research income in 2009 and had 835 research students in 2010. In 2009, its academics authored 33 books, 233 refereed conference papers, and 705 refereed journal papers. It has campuses in the coastal cities of: Geelong, Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, and Warrnambool
Warrnambool, Victoria
-Cityscape:The original City of Warrnambool was a 4x8 grid, with boundaries of Lava Street , Japan Street , Merri Street and Henna Street . In the nineteenth century, it was intended that Fairy Street – with its proximity to the Warrnambool Railway Station – would be the main street of...
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
. The University was named after the leader of the Australian federation movement and the nation's second Prime Minister
Prime Minister of Australia
The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia is the highest minister of the Crown, leader of the Cabinet and Head of Her Majesty's Australian Government, holding office on commission from the Governor-General of Australia. The office of Prime Minister is, in practice, the most powerful...
, Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin , Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later the second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the 19th century, Deakin was a major contributor to the establishment of liberal reforms in the colony of Victoria, including the...
.
History
Deakin University is a commissioned Victorian university. Its establishment was the result of the commissioning of the Ramsay Committee, which was created by the State Government of VictoriaVictoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
and the Federal Government of Australia in September 1970, to establish Victoria's fourth university in regional Victoria. Three locations at Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo were considered.
In its report on 14 December 1973, the Federal Government's Australian Universities Commission recommended that a university be established at Geelong. This led to the declaration of Deakin University as a university in 1974, by an Act of Parliament referred to as the DEAKIN UNIVERSITY ACT 1974. Act No. 8610/1974. Sites in Ballarat and Bendigo became independent Colleges of Advanced Education, and consequently did not have recognised university status. The three other commissioned Victorian universities include: The University of Melbourne established in (1853), Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
(1958), and LaTrobe University (1964).
The University was officially opened in 1977 by the then Premier of Victoria Sir Rupert Hamer
Rupert Hamer
Sir Rupert James Hamer, AC, KCMG, ED , generally known until he was knighted in 1982 as Dick Hamer, Australian Liberal Party politician, was the 39th Premier of Victoria, serving from 1972 to 1981.-Early years:...
at the original campus at Waurn Ponds, Geelong and the University appointed the Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
educated Prof. Frederic Jevons
Frederic Jevons
Frederic Raphael Jevons was a British biochemist and later an Australian educator...
as its foundation Vice-Chancellor and Mr. Peter Thwaites as its foundation Chancellor.
Upon establishment, Deakin took over the higher education courses of the Gordon Institute of Technology (now the Gordon Institute of TAFE
Gordon Institute of TAFE
The Gordon Institute of TAFE is the TAFE institute servicing Geelong since 1888. It has 26,000 students studying on-campus, off-campus and in business or industry ....
), and relocated them to the newly acquired 370 Hectare Waurn Ponds campus at Geelong. It also absorbed the State College of Victoria, Geelong (a teacher's college) and transferred it to Waurn Ponds as well. Deakin enrolled its first students at Waurn Ponds in 1977.
In 1986, the University appointed its second Vice-Chancellor in educationalist Prof. Malcolm Skilbeck to lead the University through the early phases of higher education reform in Australia namely the Federal Government's Dawkins Revolution
Dawkins Revolution
The Dawkins Revolution was a series of Australian tertiary education reforms instituted by the then Labor Education Minister John Dawkins....
. A merger with Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education
Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education
Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education was a college of advanced education in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. It operated for twenty years, from 1970-1990. It offered undergraduate and postgraduate programs in aquaculture, arts, business, nursing, municipal engineering, appiled science and...
took place in August 1990 followed by most of Victoria College
Victoria College, Melbourne
Victoria College was a College of Advanced Education in Melbourne, Australia. It was created as a result of the merger on December 23 1981 of the State College of Victoria colleges at Burwood, Rusden and Toorak with the Prahran College of Advanced Education...
in December 1991.
In 1992, Prof. John Hay arrived from Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
to become Deakin's third Vice-Chancellor to lead it through the most turbulent period of change in its history by bringing together several institutions, each with its own distinctive mission, to complete the reconstruction and establishment of a new and larger Deakin University.
In the same period, debate ensued in Geelong about the fate of the city's historic waterfront woolstores, known as the Dalgety's Woolstores, which were dilapidated amidst an area undergoing major development. Some buildings were demolished despite a community outcry, and the fate of the remaining buildings was unclear until Deakin University acquired the site for a sixth Campus. Major renovations took place over several years, and in 1997, the Woolstores campus (now the Geelong Waterfront Campus) opened.
These mergers enabled the University to grow substantially from a pre-merger student population of approximately 8,000 in 1990 to approximately 25,000 higher education students in 1995. The University's student population trebled in just five years and the developments created a large multi-campus University spanning 300 kilometres covering six campuses: three in Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
in the suburbs of Burwood
Burwood, Victoria
Burwood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is largely the City of Whitehorse but includes the City of Monash in its south west corner. At the 2006 Census, Burwood had a population of 11,886.-History:The...
, Clayton
Clayton, Victoria
Clayton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Monash. At the 2006 Census, Clayton had a population of 14,332.-Overview:...
(Rusden campus), and Malvern
Malvern, Victoria
Malvern is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington. At the 2006 Census, Malvern had a population of 9,422.-History:...
(Toorak campus); two in Geelong at Waurn Ponds
Waurn Ponds, Victoria
Waurn Ponds is a mainly residential southern suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.The suburb is bounded by Rossack Drive, Princes Highway, the Geelong to Warnambool railway, Reservoir Road, Draytons Road, Pigdons Road, Deakin University and Honeys Road....
and Geelong Waterfront; and one at Warrnambool
Warrnambool, Victoria
-Cityscape:The original City of Warrnambool was a 4x8 grid, with boundaries of Lava Street , Japan Street , Merri Street and Henna Street . In the nineteenth century, it was intended that Fairy Street – with its proximity to the Warrnambool Railway Station – would be the main street of...
).
In 1993, the University established Victoria's fourth law school
Law school
A law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- Law degrees :- Canada :...
, after Melbourne (1856), Monash (1964) and La Trobe (1992). Its establishment was unique, in that it was the first, and only, law school in Victoria to offer distance learning law degrees as well as traditional on-campus law degrees. The school's range of courses include Bachelor of Laws
Bachelor of Laws
The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law originating in England and offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree...
, Master of Laws
Master of Laws
The Master of Laws is an advanced academic degree, pursued by those holding a professional law degree, and is commonly abbreviated LL.M. from its Latin name, Legum Magister. The University of Oxford names its taught masters of laws B.C.L...
and PhD
PHD
PHD may refer to:*Ph.D., a doctorate of philosophy*Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*PHD finger, a protein sequence*PHD Mountain Software, an outdoor clothing and equipment company*PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
. Two law school chapters were established, one each at the Burwood and Geelong campuses respectively.
In 1997, nuclear physicist Prof. Geoff Wilson became the fourth Vice-Chancellor and put the University on the path to redevelop the Burwood campus, and rationalise surplus campuses. The Burwood campus saw the construction of several multi-storey buildings including the seven storey west-facing "C" building as depicted in figure 2 below.
In 2000, the University decided to close the Rusden campus, which held mainly the Faculties of Environmental Science and Teaching. The campus was considered surplus to the University's requirements and was progressively closed between 2001 and 2003, with students and courses relocated to the Burwood campus. Rusden's buildings have since been converted into student accommodation and now forms part of Monash University's Clayton campus.
In 2003, lawyer Prof. Sally Walker arrived from The University of Melbourne to become Deakin University's first female, and fifth, Vice-Chancellor. During this phase of leadership, courses and student numbers continued to rise. New courses including medicine, occupational therapy, and optometry were to be introduced over her term, and the student population reached nearly 40,000 higher education students by year 2010.
On 8 April 2006 the then Prime Minister Mr John Howard
John Howard
John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....
announced that a new Medical School would be established at Deakin University. In his speech delivered at the Victorian Liberal Party State Council in Melbourne on 8 April 2006 he said: 'I am particularly pleased to announce the Medical School at Deakin University which will ensure the development of a strong rural and regional medical workforce throughout western Victorian region.'
In 2007, the Toorak campus in Malvern was closed and sold as it was considered surplus to the University's requirements. Its resources and courses were relocated to new facilities at the Burwood campus. At this point, the Burwood campus became known as the Melbourne campus at Burwood.
On 1 May 2008, Victoria's third Medical School was officially opened by the then Prime Minister of Australia Mr Kevin Rudd
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd is an Australian politician who was the 26th Prime Minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010. He has been Minister for Foreign Affairs since 2010...
and the then Victorian Premier Mr John Brumby
John Brumby
John Mansfield Brumby , is an Australian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became Premier after the resignation of Steve Bracks. He also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. He contested his first election...
. The Medical School commenced with 120 Commonwealth supported medical students with Prof. Brendan Crotty being appointed the Foundation Head of the School of Medicine. There are now three Medical Schools in Victoria with the first being established at The University of Melbourne
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
in 1862, and subsequently Monash University
Monash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
in 1958.
In 2008 Deakin introduced changes to its Academic term
Academic term
An academic term is a division of an academic year, the time during which a school, college or university holds classes. These divisions may be called terms...
replacing the two-term semester system with the three-term trimester.
In 2010, the University's sixth Vice-Chancellor Prof. Jane den Hollander arrived from Curtin University in Western Australia. The University introduced courses in Optometry
Optometry
Optometry is a health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans. Optometrists, or Doctors of Optometry, are state licensed medical professionals trained to prescribe and fit lenses to improve vision,...
to begin in 2012.
In 2011, the University appoints Prof. Harrison Weisinger as Foundation Director and Chair of Optometry and Prof. Michael Berk to the Foundation Chair in Psychiatry.
Geelong Waterfront campus
Corio Bay
Corio Bay is one of numerous bays in the southwest corner of Australia's Port Phillip, and is the bay on which abuts the City of Geelong. The nearby suburb of Corio takes its name from Corio Bay.-Name:...
, in the central business district of Geelong. Originally built as the Dalgety's Woolstores in 1893, the buildings have been extensively renovated to create a modern campus centre, whilst retaining most of the original internal elements.
More than 2,300 (A.D. 2010) students are based at the Geelong Waterfront campus which hosts the schools of: Architecture and Building, Health and Social Development and Nursing. The schools offer courses in architecture and construction management, nursing, occupational therapy and social work.
Services and facilities include a 320-seat lecture theatre, cafe, Library, bookshop, 24 hour computer laboratories, 24 hour on site security, medical centre and counselling services, multi-faith prayer rooms, Computer Aided Design (CAD) laboratories, purpose built occupational therapy laboratory and design studios.
A $37 million redevelopment of the Dennys Lascelles Building has increased the capacity of this campus, allowing the University to provide an expanded range of courses. The building houses the Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library and the Alfred Deakin Research Institute, an interdisciplinary teaching and research centre covering political science, public policy and governance, international relations, globalisation, journalism and communications.
Geelong campus at Waurn Ponds
The original campus of Deakin University is located in the regional city of Geelong in the suburb of Waurn PondsWaurn Ponds, Victoria
Waurn Ponds is a mainly residential southern suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.The suburb is bounded by Rossack Drive, Princes Highway, the Geelong to Warnambool railway, Reservoir Road, Draytons Road, Pigdons Road, Deakin University and Honeys Road....
, 72 kilometres south west of Melbourne. The campus, serviced by the Princes Highway and the Geelong Ring Road, is approximately 5 kilometres from the Geelong Central Business District and is in close proximity to Bells Beach
Bells Beach
Bells Beach is a coastal locality of Victoria, Australia in Surf Coast Shire and a renowned surf beach, located 100 km south-west of Melbourne, on the Great Ocean Road near the towns of Torquay and Jan Juc....
and the Great Ocean Road
Great Ocean Road
The Great Ocean Road is a stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Warrnambool. The road was built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932, and is the world's largest war memorial; dedicated to casualties of World War I...
and has a student population of 4,700 (2010) pursuing courses in arts, business, education, engineering, management, media and communication, law, medicine, health sciences, information technology, psychology and science.
Services and facilities include a fitness club and sports hall, tennis courts, walking/running track and sporting fields (cricket, football, soccer, gridiron, archery, golf driving range), Library, bookshop, 24 hour computer laboratories, 24 hour on-site security, medical centre and counselling services, multi-faith prayer rooms and cafe and food outlets. On-campus accommodation is provided for 447 students in 40 units. Unit sizes vary from two bedrooms to 29 bedrooms. All units can be mixed gender and multicultural. The campus is home to the Geelong Technology Precinct, which provides research and development capabilities and opportunities for university–industry partnerships and new enterprises in the region.
Deakin's Medical School opened on this Campus in 2008 with 120 full-time graduate students. In 2009 around 250 students were studying Deakin's Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery - MBBS
MBBS
MBBS was a popular BBS system in the Nordic countries during the mid-1990s. It was created by a team of Oslo-based enthusiasts, led by Mike Robertson. As many BBS systems of that era, it was only available for the DOS platform. Since one process could only handle one node, multitaskers such as...
.
Melbourne campus at Burwood
Burwood, Victoria
Burwood is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is largely the City of Whitehorse but includes the City of Monash in its south west corner. At the 2006 Census, Burwood had a population of 11,886.-History:The...
on Burwood Highway, about 45 minutes by tram (route 75
Melbourne tram route 75
Tram route 75 is a public transport service in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs from the corner of Spencer Street and La Trobe Street in the city centre to Vermont South in the eastern suburbs....
) from the Melbourne CBD. Located alongside Gardiner's Creek parklands between Elgar Road on the north-west border and Mount Scopus Memorial College
Mount Scopus Memorial College
Mount Scopus Memorial College is a Jewish private school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.- History :Mount Scopus Memorial College opened on St Kilda Road in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1949, taking its name from Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, which remained under Israeli control after the 1948...
on the east border, it has had a number of new multi-story buildings constructed in recent years and the campus has about 19,000 (2010) undergraduate and postgraduate on-campus students pursuing courses in arts, business, education, environment, health sciences, information technology, law, management, media and communication, nursing, psychology, public health and health promotion, science, sport and visual, performing and creative arts.
Some facilities at the Melbourne campus include multi-story car parks, the Deakin University Art Gallery, Motion.Lab - motion capture facility, a purpose built gymnasium and sports hall, cafes, food outlets and a bar, the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Test Centre, bookshop, a refurbished Library, 24 hour computer laboratories, 24 hour on-site security, medical centre and counselling services and multi-faith prayer rooms. The campus provides single room on-campus accommodation for 200 students in a mixed gender and multicultural environment.
Warrnambool campus
The Warrnambool campus is situated on the banks of the Hopkins River in the coastal city of WarrnamboolWarrnambool, Victoria
-Cityscape:The original City of Warrnambool was a 4x8 grid, with boundaries of Lava Street , Japan Street , Merri Street and Henna Street . In the nineteenth century, it was intended that Fairy Street – with its proximity to the Warrnambool Railway Station – would be the main street of...
, close to local surf beaches and popular tourist attractions in close proximity to the Great Ocean Road
Great Ocean Road
The Great Ocean Road is a stretch of road along the south-eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Torquay and Warrnambool. The road was built by returned soldiers between 1919 and 1932, and is the world's largest war memorial; dedicated to casualties of World War I...
and The Twelve Apostles. The 94 hectare site is approximately five kilometres from the Warrnambool CBD, serviced by the Princes Highway
Princes Highway
The Princes Highway extends from Sydney to Port Augusta via the coast through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, a distance of 1941 km or 1898 km via the former alignments of the highway ....
and by its own railway station, and bus services from Melbourne and Geelong, as well as locally in Warrnambool between the campus and the city.
The campus has an on-campus student population of more than 1250 (2010) pursuing courses in arts, business, education, environment, health sciences, law, management, marine biology, nursing and psychology.
On-campus facilities include a comprehensive Library, fitness club, basketball, netball and tennis courts and a golf course, medical centre and counselling services, 24 hour computer laboratories, 24 hour on-site security, cafe, bookshop and multi-faith prayer rooms. The campus has 25 accommodation units with between four and 21 bedrooms per unit, providing on-campus accommodation for 240 students in a mixed gender and multicultural environment.
Off-campus study
Deakin University is a major provider of academic programs by distance education. Students undertaking their courses in this mode are generally classified as off-campus students, but many on-campus students also study off-campus units as part of their course. Students enrolled in off-campus units may study through one or more of the University's campuses at Geelong, MelbourneMelbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
and Warrnambool. Many full-time and part-time students are able to tailor their courses to meet their needs and circumstances. Nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Deakin University study in the off-campus mode. Students enrolled in off-campus units study the same units as on-campus students except instead of attending lectures and classes, they receive course and study materials by post and online via the internet. Many courses have a residential component which provides opportunities for networking with other students and staff face-to-face. Deakin University is one of two Australian universities to be accredited with the Distance Education and Training Council
Distance Education and Training Council
The Distance Education and Training Council is a non-profit national educational accreditation agency in the United States specializing in the accreditation of distance education institutions.- History :...
of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Rusden campus
The Rusden campus was closed in 2003 and all courses were transferred to the Melbourne campus at Burwood. It was subsequently acquired by Monash UniversityMonash University
Monash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
for its student accommodation purposes.
Toorak
The former Toorak campus is located in MalvernMalvern, Victoria
Malvern is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington. At the 2006 Census, Malvern had a population of 9,422.-History:...
and was sold in 2007 as the University considered the campus surplus to its requirements. The courses and resources were relocated to the Melbourne campus at Burwood in November 2007.
As a Deakin campus, it was home to Deakin Business School
Deakin Business School
Deakin Graduate School of Business provides Deakin University's major postgraduate business programs covering Master of Business Administration, Master of Commerce, Master of International Business, Master of Marketing, and Doctor of Business Administration courses as well as Executive Development...
, Deakin University English Language Institute, and the Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology
Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology
Melbourne Institute of Business and Technology is an Australian tertiary education provider. Located on Deakin University's Melbourne Campus at Burwood and Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds, MIBT provides the Certificate IV in University Foundation Studies which is equivalent to Year 12, and...
, which have since relocated to the International Centre and Business Building on the Melbourne campus at Burwood.
The main building on the site is the 116 year old historic Stonnington Mansion and is located amongst traditional gardens. The Stonnington Stables art gallery and the University's contemporary art collection were located here, which has since relocated to the Deakin University Art Gallery at the Melbourne campus at Burwood.
The sale of the campus provoked public outrage as it involved the mansion which was at risk of redevelopment by property developers.
Chancellors
- 1977-1983 - Peter Thwaites
- 1983-1987 - Austin AscheAustin AscheKeith John Austin Asche, AC, QC is a former Administrator of the Northern Territory and was the third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.-Early years, education and family:...
- 1987-1996 - James Leslie
- 1997-2005 - Richard SearbyRichard SearbyDr. Richard Henry Searby AO QC is an Australian lawyer, company director and academic.His father was Dr. Henry Searby, a founding member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital at Parkville and his mother, Mary Searby, was a philanthropist involved in community programs for the benefit of underprivileged...
- 2005–present - David M. MorganDavid M. MorganDavid M. Morgan is currently Chancellor of Deakin University who took over position on 1 January 2006, following the retirement of his predecessor Dr Richard Searby, QC....
Vice-Chancellors
- 1977-1985 - Frederic JevonsFrederic JevonsFrederic Raphael Jevons was a British biochemist and later an Australian educator...
- 1986-1991 - Malcolm SkilbeckMalcolm SkilbeckMalcolm Skilbeck is a world authority on education and works in educational policy analysis, curriculum, tertiary and secondary education, the teaching profession, and educational innovation...
- 1992-1996 - John A. HayJohn A. HayJohn Anthony Hay, AC is a retired Australian academic.-Education:Hay has degrees in literature from the University of Western Australia and Cambridge University.-Academic positions:...
- 1997-2002 - Geoff WilsonGeoff Wilson (professor)Professor Geoff V. H. Wilson is an internationally distinguished nuclear physicist who made contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry and low temperature physics...
- 2003-2010 - Sally WalkerSally WalkerProfessor Sally Walker is a lawyer and former senior university administrator. She served as the fifth Vice-Chancellor and President of Deakin University and was the first female to be appointed to the position.-Early life and education:...
- 2010-present - Jane den HollanderJane den HollanderProfessor Jane den Hollander is an Australian university administrator and the sixth Vice-Chancellor of Deakin UniversityA cellular biologist turned university administrator, she previously held senior management positions at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University as Deputy...
Notable Associates of the University
- Frank CostaFrank CostaFrank Costa OAM is an entrepreneur, 1997 Order of Australia Medal recipient, and philanthropist. The Geelong native has been a prominent figure in the region for more than four decades, after inheriting the family's produce business in the late 1950s...
Businessman and Philanthropist - Lindsay FoxLindsay FoxLindsay Edward Fox AC is an Australian businessman. As of 2009, he was the 10th richest person in Australia, with a net worth of around 1.5 billion . He is best known as the founder and chairman of his family-owned trucking and logistics company, Linfox.- Early life :Lindsay Fox was brought up in...
Businessman and Philanthropist - Brett LeeBrett LeeBrett Lee is an Australian cricketer.After breaking into the Australian Test team, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket...
Australian Cricketer and Deakin India Research Institute (DIRI) associate.
Faculties, Schools and Research Centres
Faculty of Arts and Education- School of Communication and Creative Arts
- School of Education
- School of History Heritage and Society
- School of International and Political Studies
- Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation
- Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights
- Centre for Partnerships and Projects in Education
- Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
- Centre for Teaching Asian Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Business and Law
- Deakin Graduate School of Business
- School of Accounting, Economics and Finance
- School of Information Systems
- School of Law
- School of Management and Marketing
Faculty of Health
- School of Psychology
- School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
- School of Health and Social Development
- School of Nursing and Midwifery
- School of Medicine
Faculty of Science and Technology
- School of Architecture and Building
- School of Engineering
- School of Information Technology
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences
Institutes
- Institute of Koorie Education
- Institute of Teaching and Learning
Research institutes
- Alfred Deakin Research Institute
- Institute for Technology Research and Innovation
Strategic research centres
- Centre for Comparative Social Research
- Centre for Integrative Ecology
- Centre for Biotechnology, Chemistry and Systems Biology
- Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention
- Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing Research
- Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research
- Centre for Research in Educational Futures and Innovation
- Centre for Sustainable and Responsible Organisations
- Quality and Patient Safety Research
- Molecular and Medical Research
- Population Health
Awards and achievements
Deakin has won the prestigious Australian University of the YearAustralian University of the Year
The Good University Guide Australian University of the Year was awarded annually between 1993 and 2001. Although the Guide assess each university under a variety of criteria, the award was not necessarily given to the top Australian university, but rather to the University which performed best in...
award twice. The first award came in 1995-1996 for "Outstanding Technology in Education" in which the then Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating
Paul Keating
Paul John Keating was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1991 to 1996. Keating was elected as the federal Labor member for Blaxland in 1969 and came to prominence as the reformist treasurer of the Hawke Labor government, which came to power at the 1983 election...
presented Deakin with the award and commended it on its success despite its lack of "sandstones
Sandstone universities
The sandstone universities are an informally defined group comprising Australia's oldest tertiary education institutions. Most were founded in the colonial era, the exceptions being the University of Queensland and The University of Western Australia . All the universities in the group have...
" referring to its short period of existence as a university.
On 25 August 1999, Deakin won its second award when it tied with the University of Wollongong
University of Wollongong
The University of Wollongong is a public university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, approximately 80 kilometres south of Sydney...
to win the 1999-2000 prize. Deakin's success was for its "Outstanding Education and Training Partnerships". In presenting the award, the Federal Treasurer Peter Costello
Peter Costello
Peter Howard Costello AC is an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the Treasurer in the Australian government from 1996 to 2007. He is the longest-serving Treasurer in Australian history. Costello was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 to 2009, representing...
commended Deakin and Wollongong in stating: "These are two great institutions. They are the best of the best at what they do".
Deakin was also commended with seven Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning at the 2010 Australian Learning and Teaching Council Awards.
In 2005, Deakin's Library was nationally acknowledged for the outstanding provision of off-campus services in the Australian Awards for University Teaching.
Notable faculty
- Dr Tania de Koning-Ward, Commonwealth Health Minister's Medal for Excellence in Health and Medical Research
- Professor Peter Hodgson, 2009 Australian Laureate Fellow
- John JonasJohn JonasJohn Joseph Jonas, is a Canadian metallurgist who specializes in metal shaping and forming.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Jonas received a Bachelor of Engineering in Metallurgical Engineering in 1954 from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Sciences in 1960 from University of Cambridge...
, Birks Professor of Metallurgy, McGill UniversityMcGill UniversityMohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
: Visiting Professor. - Ross OakleyRoss OakleyRoss Oakley is an Australian businessman and former Australian rules footballer with St Kilda in the VFL. He is CEO of the Victorian Rugby Union and was appointed CEO of the new the Melbourne Rebels rugby union franchise in September 2010.-Playing career:Oakley attended Wesley College, Melbourne ...
, Former Australian Football LeagueAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
CEO: Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law - Hugh O'Neill, University of MelbourneUniversity of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
: Adjunct Professor, Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific. - Meredith Newman, Chair of the Department of Public Administration Florida International UniversityFlorida International UniversityFlorida International University is an American public research university in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park...
and President of the national American Society for Public AdministrationAmerican Society for Public AdministrationThe American Society for Public Administration is a membership association in the United States sponsoring conferences and providing professional services primarily to those who study the implementation of government policy, public administration, and, to a lesser degree, programs of civil society...
: . - David ParkinDavid ParkinDavid Parkin is a former Australian rules footballer and four-time premiership coach.- Pre-football career :He attended Melbourne High School and during his time there, was the school vice-captain and captain of football....
, Former coach of CarltonCarlton Football ClubThe Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
and Hawthorn Football ClubHawthorn Football ClubThe Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
s: Lecturer in Exercise Science. - Justice Mark WeinbergMark Weinberg-Early life and education:Weinberg was born in South Africa and educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg. He received degrees in Commerce and Law and practised as a barrister...
, Chief Justice of Norfolk Island: Adjunct Professor, School of Law.
Research
Deakin is one of Australia's fastest growing research universities. Its combined research funding had increased from A$4.5 million in 1997 to A$35 million in 2010.In its 2010 allocations, the Australian Research Council
Australian Research Council
The Australian Research Council is the Australian Government’s main agency for allocating research funding to academics and researchers in Australian universities. Its mission is to advance Australia’s capacity to undertake research that brings economic, social and cultural benefit to the...
awarded Deakin 13 Discovery and 10 Linkage Round 1 awards. The wins placed Deakin 16th in the number of Discovery Grants awarded and equal 6th in the number of Linkage grants awarded amongst Australian Universities.
It has developed meaningful, reciprocal research and educational partnerships in India with the official opening of the Deakin India Research Institute (DIRI) in Hyderabad and more than 50 other Indian research partners.
Research centres and institutes
Rankings
In 2009, the Graduate Management Association of Australia (GMAA) awarded Deakin's Master of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration (International) courses the maximum score of five stars, placing them in the top rank of Australia's MBA courses.In 2007, the list of the top ranked universities in The Times Higher Education-Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings
THES - QS World University Rankings
The term Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings refers to rankings published jointly between 2004 and 2009 by Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds . After QS and Times Higher Education had ended their collaboration, the methodology for these rankings continues to be used by...
was expanded to 400 institutions worldwide. In this ranking, Deakin University was placed for the first time at equal 374th. In 2009, THES and QS split to conduct their own rankings from 2010. In 2009, the Russian Global University Ranking ranked the world's top 500 universities. Each university was placed into one of five bands. Deakin was placed in the third band (201-300) with a ranking of 283-284.
| Ranking Institution | # | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Times Higher Education-Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings (pre-2010) THES - QS World University Rankings The term Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings refers to rankings published jointly between 2004 and 2009 by Times Higher Education and Quacquarelli Symonds . After QS and Times Higher Education had ended their collaboration, the methodology for these rankings continues to be used by... |
400 | 374 | 396 | 355 | ||
| THES (Post-2009) Times Higher Education World University Rankings The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an international ranking of universities published by the British magazine Times Higher Education in partnership with Thomson Reuters, which provided citation database information... |
400 | |||||
| 399 | 381 | |||||
| QS World University Rankings (post-2009) QS World University Rankings The QS World University Rankings is a ranking of the world’s top 500 universities by Quacquarelli Symonds using a method that has published annually since 2004.... |
400 | |||||
| 362 | ||||||
| QS World University Rankings - Engineering and Technology | 300 | |||||
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| QS World University Rankings - Natural Sciences (Chemistry) | 200 | |||||
| 151-200 | ||||||
| QS World University Rankings - Social Sciences (Economics) | 200 | |||||
| 151-200 | ||||||
| QS World University Rankings - Social Sciences (Sociology) | 200 | |||||
| 101-150 | ||||||
| QS World University Rankings - Social Sciences (Accounting and Finance) | 200 | |||||
| 51-100 | ||||||
| Russian Global University Ranking | 500 | |||||
| 283-284 | ||||||
| Graduate Management Association of Australia (GMAA) MBA | ||||||
| 5/5 | 5/5 | 5/5 | ||||
| Graduate Management Association of Australia (GMAA) MBA(International) | ||||||
| 4/5 | 5/5 | 5/5 |
The Australian Good Universities Guide publishes an annual rating of the status and standing of Australian universities. The university's status and standing for each criterion was:
| Criteria | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prestige | 3/5 | N/P | N/P* | |||||
| Student Demand | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | |||||
| Non-government Earnings | 3/5 | 5/5 | 5/5 | |||||
| Research Grants | 2/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | |||||
| Research Intensiveness | N/P | 2/5 | 2/5 | |||||
| Total Score | 11/20 | 13/20 | 13/20 |
Note: N/P - No publication available.
Research produced by the Melbourne Institute
The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
The Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research is an Australian economic research institute based in Melbourne, Victoria...
in 2006 ranked Australian universities across seven main discipline areas: Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, and Science.
For each discipline, Deakin was ranked:
| Discipline | R1* | No. | R2* | No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts & Humanities | 17 | 35 | 17 | 35 |
| Business & Economics | 15 | 39 | 24 | 34 |
| Education | 6 | 35 | 8 | 32 |
| Engineering | 20 | 28 | 18 | 28 |
| Law | 20 | 29 | 20 | 28 |
| Medicine** | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| Science | 24 | 38 | 27 | 31 |
.*R1 refers to Academics' rankings in tables 3.1 - 3.7 in the report. R2 refers to Articles and Research rankings in tables 5.1 - 5.7. No. refers to the number of institutions compared with Deakin.
.**As Deakin's Medical School will commence operations in 2008 there are no data available.
Deakin ranks 24 in Australia, 29 in the Oceania, and 609 in the world in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities:
Deakin has not yet been ranked in the world rankings produced by Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai Jiao Tong University or SJTU), sometimes referred to as Shanghai Jiaotong University , is a top public research university located in Shanghai, China. Shanghai Jiao Tong University is known as one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China...
DeakinPrime
DeakinPrime, the corporate education arm of Deakin University, is a pioneer and leader in the development of corporate education partnerships with organisations in Australia.Many large Australian and international organisations are associated with DeakinPrime's activities.
Approximately 50,000 students are participating in programs with DeakinPrime.
Alumni (surname order)
- Emma AlbericiEmma AlbericiEmma Alberici is currently the Europe Correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She was formerly the Finance reporter on The 7.30 Report, presenter of the now defunct "Business Breakfast", then general finance reporter for ABC TV and Radio.Previously she was a reporter and...
, journalist/presenter with the ABC - Most Rev Phillip AspinallPhillip AspinallPhillip Aspinall has been the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia since February 2002 and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia since July 2005. He succeeded Peter Hollingworth as Archbishop of Brisbane....
, PrimatePrimateA primate is a mammal of the order Primates , which contains prosimians and simians. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging three-dimensional environment...
of the Anglican Church in AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
: MBA - Julie AttwoodJulie AttwoodJulie Maree Attwood is an Australian Labor Party Member of the Queensland Parliament for the seat of Mount Ommaney. Elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1998, she was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Child Safety on 21 September 2006.Attwood obtained a...
, Member of Queensland Legislative AssemblyQueensland Legislative AssemblyThe Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...
. - Jimmy BartelJimmy BartelJames 'Jimmy' Bartel is an Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League . A midfielder at and , Bartel is a Brownlow Medallist, two-time All-Australian, and was part of the Cats' AFL premiership-winning teams in 2007, 2009 and 2011, being named the...
, 2007 Brownlow MedalBrownlow MedalThe Chas Brownlow Trophy, better known as the Brownlow Medal , is awarded to the "fairest and best" player in the Australian Football League during the regular season as determined by votes cast by the officiating field umpires after each game...
list and triple AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
Premiership Player in 2007, 2009 and 2011 with the Geelong Football ClubGeelong Football ClubThe Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...
. 2011 Norm SmithNorm SmithNorman Walter "Norm" Smith was an Australian rules football player and coach in the Victorian Football League. After 200 games as a player with Melbourne and Fitzroy, Smith began a twenty year coaching career, including a fifteen year stint at Melbourne...
medallist. - Mark Blake, 2009 AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
Premiership player with the Geelong Football ClubGeelong Football ClubThe Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also... - Campbell BrownCampbell Brown (footballer)Campbell Brown is an Australian rules footballer who has previously won a premiership with the Hawthorn Football Club and currently plays for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League .-AFL career:...
, 2008 AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
Premiership player with Hawthorn Football ClubHawthorn Football ClubThe Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League . The club, founded in 1902, is the youngest of the Victorian-based teams in the AFL. The team play in Brown & Gold vertically striped guernseys...
and inaugural Gold Coast Football Club player: BCom (Sports Management) - John BrumbyJohn BrumbyJohn Mansfield Brumby , is an Australian Labor Party politician who was Premier of Victoria from 2007 to 2010. He became Premier after the resignation of Steve Bracks. He also served as the Minister for Veterans' Affairs and the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. He contested his first election...
, former Premier and Treasurer of the State of VictoriaVictoria (Australia)Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
: Dip Ed. - Tim CallanTim CallanTim Callan is a former Australian rules football player for the Western Bulldogs, and the Geelong Football Club. He is the son of former Geelong player, Terry Callan.-Geelong:...
, AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
footballer with the Western Bulldogs Football Club: BCom - Briony ColeBriony ColeBriony Cole is an Australian diver who won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, silver and bronze medals at the 2007 World Championships and a silver medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, and a bronze medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.As a child, Cole competed in gymnastics, which led her...
, Gold medalist, 2006 Commonwealth Games2006 Commonwealth GamesThe 2006 Commonwealth Games were held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia between 15 March and 26 March 2006. It was the largest sporting event to be staged in Melbourne, eclipsing the 1956 Summer Olympics in terms of the number of teams competing, athletes competing, and events being held.The site...
, & Silver medalist, 2008 Beijing Olympics - Neil ComrieNeil ComrieMurray Neil Comrie AO, APM , known as Neil Comrie, is a former Australian police officer. He was Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police from 1993 to 2001.-Police career:...
, Former Chief Commissioner of Victoria PoliceVictoria PoliceVictoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. , the Victoria Police has over 12,190 sworn members, along with over 400 recruits, reservists and Protective Service Officers, and over 2,900 civilian staff across 393 police stations.-Early history:The Victoria Police...
: BA (Police Studies) - Rodger CorserRodger CorserRodger Corser is an Australian actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Detective Senior Sergeant Steve Owen in the Nine Network crime mini-series Underbelly, based on the Melbourne gangland killings, and Senior Seargent Lawson Blake in the Network Ten police drama series Rush.-Early...
, Australian actor: Honours B.A in Media Studies - Brett Cousins, Australian actor.
- Trish CrossinTrish CrossinPatricia Margaret "Trish" Crossin , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the Northern Territory since June 1998, representing the Australian Labor Party...
, SenatorAustralian SenateThe Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...
for Northern TerritoryNorthern TerritoryThe Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
. - Colonel Benito T. de LeonBenito T. de LeonBenito Antonio Templo de León is a military officer of the Armed Forces of the Philippines while a Roman Catholic was conferred the rare Muslim-Maranao honorary title of Sultan a Romapunut for his peace efforts...
, Military Officer, Philippines Army: MA (Strategic Studies) - Oliver FelthamOliver FelthamOliver Feltham is an Australian philosopher and translator working in Paris, France. He is known primarily for his English translations of Alain Badiou, most notably Badiou’s magnum opus Being and Event . Feltham's own writings are drawn from many of his research interests including Marxism,...
, contemporary philosopher and English translator of Alain BadiouAlain BadiouAlain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...
's Being and Event (2006) - Ben Graham, Former Geelong Football ClubGeelong Football ClubThe Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...
star, now a punterPunter (football position)A punter in American or Canadian football is a special teams player who receives the snapped ball directly from the line of scrimmage and then punts the football to the opposing team so as to limit any field position advantage. This generally happens on a fourth down in American football and a...
for the Arizona CardinalsArizona CardinalsThe Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
of the National Football LeagueNational Football LeagueThe National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
; first Australian to play in the Super BowlSuper BowlThe Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League , the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather...
: BCom - Carolyn Hardy, CEO UNICEF Australia: BA, MA
- Tom HarleyTom HarleyThomas 'Tom' Harley is a former Australian rules footballer for the Geelong Football Club in the Australian Football League...
, Dual Premiership Captain of Geelong Football ClubGeelong Football ClubThe Geelong Football Club, nicknamed The Cats, is a professional Australian rules football club, named after and based in the city of Geelong, playing in the Australian Football League . The club has been the VFL/AFL premiers nine times, with a record equalling 3 in the AFL era. Geelong has also...
in 2007 and 2009: BCom - Geoff HuntGeoff HuntGeoffrey Brian Hunt, MBE , is a retired Australian squash player who is widely considered to be one of the greatest squash players in history....
, World Champion Squash Player: Grad Dip (Nutrition) - James Kilgor, Member of the Symbionese Liberation ArmySymbionese Liberation ArmyThe Symbionese Liberation Army was an American self-styled left-wing urban militant group active between 1973 and 1975 that considered itself a revolutionary vanguard army...
: PhD History . - Jill Kokinos, NECA board member, loves chocolate and the gym: MBA, BEd
- Arthur Vivian Lucas JonesArthur Vivian Lucas JonesArthur Lucas Vivian Jones was the 9th Bishop of Gippsland from 1994 to 2001.Jones was educated at St John's College, Morpeth and Deakin University and ordained in 1967. His first post was as a curate at Holy Trinity, Orange after which he was a missionary in Panama...
, Bishop of the Anglican Church in Australia - Christopher Lynch, Former Chief Financial Officer & Former Director of BHP BillitonBHP BillitonBHP Billiton is a global mining, oil and gas company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia and with a major management office in London, United Kingdom...
, CEO of TransurbanTransurbanTransurban is an international toll road developer and manager with interests in Australia and North America. In Australia, Transurban has a stake in five out of Sydney’s nine motorways, and in Melbourne it is the full owner of CityLink, which connects three of the city’s major freeways...
Ltd: BCom, MBA - Michael MaloufMichael MaloufMichael Malouf is a former Chief Executive Officer of the Carlton Football Club. On the 23rd of March 2007, it was announced that the then-current CEO at the Collingwood Football Club, Greg Swann, would replace Malouf in this position....
, Former Chief Executive Officer, Carlton Football ClubCarlton Football ClubThe Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
: MBA - Anne Minter, Former International Tennis player on the WTAWomen's Tennis AssociationThe Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...
circuit. - Elizabeth Minter, Former International Tennis player on the WTAWomen's Tennis AssociationThe Women's Tennis Association , founded in 1973 by Billie Jean King, is the principal organizing body of Women's Professional Tennis. It governs the WTA Tour which is the worldwide professional tennis tour for women. Its counterpart organization in the men's professional game is the Association of...
circuit. - Dr Denis NapthineDenis NapthineDenis Vincent Napthine is an Australian politician for the Liberal Party in the state of Victoria. He is a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, representing the electoral district of South-West Coast.- Early life :...
, Former leader of Victorian Division of the Liberal Party of AustraliaLiberal Party of AustraliaThe Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...
: MBA - Livinia NixonLivinia NixonLivinia Nixon is an Australian television presenter and actress best known for her roles on the Nine Network as weather presenter on Nine News Melbourne and as co-host on the long running variety series Hey Hey It's Saturday....
, Nine NetworkNine NetworkThe Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
Weather reporter: BCom, BA - Henry PlayfairHenry PlayfairHenry Playfair is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Playfair grew up and around the town of Holbrook in the Riverina region of New South Wales.-Career:...
, AFLAustralian Football LeagueThe Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
footballer with the Sydney Swans Football Club: BCom - Kiara Podesta, 2006 NRE Miss India Australia. 2006 Miss India World Contestant.
- Leigh SalesLeigh SalesLeigh Sales, born 1973 is an author and award-winning journalist and presenter of 7.30 with the Australian national broadcaster, the ABC.-Biography:Sales grew up in Queensland and was a journalist with the Nine Network in Brisbane before joining the ABC...
, ABC Journalist, anchor of LatelineLatelineLateline is an Australian television news and current affairs program produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, airing weeknights at on ABC1. The program has developed a reputation for head-to-head debates on current issues and political interviews. Lateline is followed by its sister...
and bookwriter: Master of International Relations. - Jim StynesJim StynesJames "Jim" Stynes OAM is an Irish former professional Australian rules footballer who is currently a businessman, philanthropist, writer, youth worker, qualified teacher and chairman of Melbourne Football Club since 2008....
, Businessman and Chairman of Melbourne Football ClubMelbourne Football ClubThe Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Demons, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Australian Football League , based in Melbourne, Victoria....
: BEd - Mandawuy YunupinguMandawuy YunupinguMandawuy Yunupingu , born 17 September 1956, is an Aboriginal Australian musician, most notable for being the front man of the band Yothu Yindi.-Early life:...
, Indigenous musician, community leader and Australian of the Year (1992): BA.
Deakin University Student Association
The Deakin University Student Association (DUSA) is the dominant student representative organisation operating across all Campuses and courses. As well as representation, DUSA provides a range of services and benefits to members, and coordinates all other clubs and societies operating on campus. There are a wide range of groups/clubs for students to join and these groups vary from Campus to Campus. A full list of the groups can be found on DUSA's website.See also
- Deakin Business SchoolDeakin Business SchoolDeakin Graduate School of Business provides Deakin University's major postgraduate business programs covering Master of Business Administration, Master of Commerce, Master of International Business, Master of Marketing, and Doctor of Business Administration courses as well as Executive Development...
- Deakin Law SchoolDeakin Law SchoolThe Deakin University School of Law operates at Geelong, Melbourne and Warrnambool campuses. It is part of Deakin University.Deakin’s LLB degree has a strong commercial focus, with an international orientation, enabling Deakin law graduates to undertake legal work in a wide range of settings...
- Deakin Regional and Rural Medical SchoolDeakin Regional and Rural Medical SchoolDeakin University School of Medicine is a medical school of Deakin University based in at the Waurn Ponds campus in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. It offers a four year, graduate-entry, Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery degree....