Monash University

Monash University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, and the largest university in Australia by student numbers.蒙纳士大学（Monash University）是一所位于澳大利亚维多利亚州墨尔本的公立研究型大学，按学生人数计是澳大利亚规模最大的大学。

Founded in 1958 and named after the engineer and soldier Sir John Monash, it has campuses in Australia and overseas and ranks 31st in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校创办于 1958 年，以工程师兼军人约翰·蒙纳士爵士命名，在澳大利亚境内外设有多个校区，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第 31。

In 2023 it had 86,558 students, of whom 56,996 were undergraduates and 29,096 postgraduate by coursework or research, taught by 9,737 academic staff, with an annual budget of 3.25 billion Australian dollars.2023 年学校有学生 86558 人，其中本科生 56996 人、修课式与研究式研究生合计 29096 人，学术人员 9737 人，年度预算 32.5 亿澳元。

History

• Monash was established on 30 May 1958 as the second university in Victoria, ending the monopoly that the University of Melbourne had held since 1853.蒙纳士大学于 1958 年 5 月 30 日成立，是维多利亚州的第二所大学，结束了墨尔本大学自 1853 年以来独占高等教育的局面。

• It was named after Sir John Monash, an Australian civil engineer who commanded the Australian Corps in the First World War and later led the State Electricity Commission of Victoria.学校以约翰·蒙纳士爵士命名，他是澳大利亚土木工程师，第一次世界大战期间指挥澳大利亚军团，战后主持维多利亚州电力委员会。

• Its first campus was at Clayton in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and teaching began there in the early 1960s.学校的第一个校区位于墨尔本东南郊的克莱顿，教学于二十世纪六十年代初在此开始。

• The original faculty structure concentrated on engineering, science, arts and medicine, reflecting the industrial and professional needs of post-war Victoria.最初的学院结构集中在工程、理学、文学与医学，反映了战后维多利亚州的工业与专业需求。

• From the 1960s and 1970s the university expanded its subject range to include law, education, economics and the social sciences.自二十世纪六七十年代起，学校把学科范围扩展到法律、教育、经济学与社会科学。

• In 1990 it merged with the Chisholm Institute of Technology, adding campuses at Caulfield, Peninsula and elsewhere.1990 年，学校与奇泽姆理工学院合并，由此增设考菲尔德、半岛等校区。

• The Parkville campus, which specialises in pharmacy and pharmaceutical science, came from the absorption of the Victorian College of Pharmacy.以药剂学与制药科学见长的帕克维尔校区，是通过并入维多利亚药学院而来的。

• A campus in Kuala Lumpur, opened in the 1990s, made Monash the first foreign university invited to establish a branch campus in Malaysia.学校于二十世纪九十年代在吉隆坡开设校区，成为首家受邀在马来西亚设立分校的外国大学。

• Further sites followed in Italy at Prato, in South Africa, in India with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in China at Suzhou and in Indonesia.此后学校又在意大利普拉托、南非、印度与孟买印度理工学院合作、中国苏州以及印度尼西亚设立了办学点。

• In 2001 it established the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, now one of the largest pharmaceutical research groups in the southern hemisphere.2001 年学校设立蒙纳士药物科学研究所，如今是南半球规模最大的药物研究机构之一。

• In 2020 it opened the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, bringing together researchers in cancer, development, infection and metabolism.2020 年学校启用蒙纳士生物医学发现研究所，汇聚肿瘤、发育、感染与代谢领域的研究人员。

• The university also expanded its clinical teaching, working with hospitals including Monash Medical Centre and Alfred Health.学校还扩展了临床教学，与蒙纳士医学中心及阿尔弗雷德医疗等医院合作。

• Monash was the first Australian university to establish a campus in Indonesia, opening a graduate school at BSD City near Jakarta.蒙纳士是首家在印度尼西亚设立校区的澳大利亚大学，在雅加达附近的 BSD 城开办了研究生院。

• The Suzhou campus, run jointly with Southeast University, offers graduate programmes to students in China.与东南大学合办的苏州校区为中国学生提供研究生课程。

• The university's four Victorian campuses are supplemented by teaching hospitals, research institutes and clinical schools across Melbourne and regional Victoria.学校的四个维多利亚州校区之外，另有遍布墨尔本与维州地区的教学医院、研究所与临床学院。

• Its Sunway campus in Malaysia now teaches a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes to students from across South-East Asia.其马来西亚双威校区如今为来自东南亚各地的学生开设完整的本科与研究生课程。

• Monash is governed by a council chaired by the chancellor, with the vice-chancellor as chief executive, and the governor of Victoria is its visitor.学校由校监主持的校务委员会治理，校长为行政首长，维多利亚州总督担任其校督。

• The university has grown to become the largest in Australia by enrolment, with more students than any other institution in the country.学校已发展为澳大利亚注册学生人数最多的大学，超过该国其他任何院校。

• Monash's first intake of students began at Clayton in 1961, and the university grew quickly through the 1960s as Melbourne's population expanded.蒙纳士的首批学生于 1961 年在克莱顿开始上课，随着墨尔本人口增长，学校在二十世纪六十年代迅速壮大。

• In 1964 the university established a faculty of law, among the first in Australia to teach law as an undergraduate degree rather than only as a graduate course.1964 年学校设立法学院，是澳大利亚最早把法律作为本科学位而非仅作研究生课程教授的院校之一。

• In 1966 it opened a faculty of medicine, which grew into one of the largest medical schools in the country.1966 年学校开设医学院，此后发展为全国规模最大的医学院之一。

• In 1992 the Victorian College of Pharmacy became part of the university, forming the basis of its Parkville campus.1992 年维多利亚药学院并入学校，成为其帕克维尔校区的基础。

• In 1998 the university opened a campus at Sunway near Kuala Lumpur, the first foreign university invited to establish one in Malaysia.1998 年学校在吉隆坡附近的双威开设校区，是首家受邀在马来西亚设立分校的外国大学。

• In 1999 Monash became a founding member of the Group of Eight, the coalition of Australia's leading research universities.1999 年蒙纳士成为八校联盟的创始成员，该联盟由澳大利亚主要研究型大学组成。

• In 2000 it opened a study centre at Prato in Tuscany, giving its students and researchers a base in Europe.2000 年学校在托斯卡纳的普拉托开设学习中心，为学生与研究人员提供了欧洲基地。

• In 2008 it founded a joint research academy with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and in 2013 it opened a joint graduate school at Suzhou with Southeast University.2008 年学校与孟买印度理工学院共同创办联合研究院；2013 年又与东南大学在苏州开办联合研究生院。

Academics

• Monash has ten faculties, covering art, design and architecture, arts, business, education, engineering, information technology, law, medicine and health sciences, pharmacy and science.学校设有十个学院，涵盖艺术设计与建筑、人文、商学、教育、工程、信息技术、法律、医学护理与健康科学、药剂学以及理学。

• Its faculties of medicine, nursing and health sciences and of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences are among the strongest in Australia.其医学护理与健康科学学院以及药剂学与制药科学学院在澳大利亚实力最强之列。

• As of 2023 it had 56,996 undergraduates and 29,096 postgraduate students, of whom 5,634 were research students.截至 2023 年，学校有本科生 56996 人、研究生 29096 人，其中研究型学生 5634 人。

• It employs 9,737 academic staff and 9,232 administrative staff in full-time equivalents, a total of 20,227 staff members.学校拥有 9737 名全职当量学术人员与 9232 名行政人员，教职工总数 20227 人。

• Its budget was 3.25 billion Australian dollars in 2023, one of the largest of any Australian university.学校 2023 年预算为 32.5 亿澳元，在澳大利亚各大学中名列前茅。

• The university's pharmacy and pharmacology programmes are ranked among the best in the world, and its nursing, medicine and engineering subjects also rank highly.其药学与药理学项目位居世界前列，护理、医学与工程学科排名也很高。

• Its clinical schools teach in major Melbourne hospitals, and the university has one of the largest medical student intakes in the country.其临床学院在墨尔本的主要医院开展教学，学校的医学生招生规模在全国位居前列。

• The Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences give the university substantial research capacity in the life sciences.蒙纳士生物医学发现研究所与蒙纳士药物科学研究所，使学校在生命科学领域具备雄厚的研究能力。

• The faculty of information technology was among the first standalone IT faculties in Australia and works closely with the technology industry, while the business school and the law faculty are among the largest in the country and offer programmes from bachelor degrees to the juris doctor.其信息技术学院是澳大利亚最早独立设置的信息技术学院之一，与科技产业合作紧密；商学院与法学院规模在澳大利亚位居前列，开设从学士到法律博士的各类课程。

• The university's overseas campuses allow students to begin a degree in Australia and complete it abroad, or to study entirely at the Malaysian campus.其海外校区使学生可以先在澳大利亚开始学位课程、再在海外完成，也可全程在马来西亚校区就读。

• Monash is a member of the Group of Eight and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities and is accredited by the Australian tertiary quality agency.学校是八校联盟与环太平洋大学联盟的成员，并通过澳大利亚高等教育质量机构认证。

• Its engineering faculty offers civil, chemical, electrical, mechanical, materials and software engineering, with strong links to Victorian industry.其工学院开设土木、化学、电气、机械、材料与软件工程等方向，与维多利亚州产业联系紧密。

• The university's education faculty trains teachers for Victoria and runs research on literacy, curriculum and educational policy, and its graduates staff schools across the state and beyond.其教育学院为维多利亚州培养教师，并开展识字、课程与教育政策方面的研究，其毕业生供职于全州乃至更远地区的学校。

• It offers pathway programmes through Monash College, which prepares international students for undergraduate study.学校通过蒙纳士学院开设衔接课程，为国际学生升读本科做准备。

• Research at the university spans medicine, engineering, information technology, pharmacy, business and the social sciences, funded by government and industry.学校的研究涵盖医学、工程、信息技术、药学、商学与社会科学，经费来自政府与产业界。

• It also operates the Monash Sustainable Development Institute, which works on climate, energy, water and urban transitions.学校还设有蒙纳士可持续发展研究所，从事气候、能源、水与城市转型方面的研究。

• The university's Sunway campus in Malaysia enrols several thousand students and offers programmes in business, engineering, medicine and information technology.其马来西亚双威校区招收数千名学生，开设商学、工程、医学与信息技术等课程。

• Beyond medicine and pharmacy, the university conducts research in chemistry, materials science, environmental science and the social sciences, and it works with Australian industry on energy, advanced manufacturing and water management.除医学与药学之外，学校还在化学、材料科学、环境科学与社会科学领域开展研究，并与澳大利亚产业界在能源、先进制造与水管理方面合作。

Campus

• The Clayton campus in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne is the largest and principal campus, with its own postcode and administrative identity.位于墨尔本东南郊的克莱顿校区是最大且最主要的主校区，拥有自己的邮政编码与行政身份。

• Caulfield campus, closer to the city, specialises in business and the arts, while the Peninsula campus in Frankston focuses on health, education and business.较靠近市中心的考菲尔德校区以商学与艺术为主，位于弗兰克斯顿的半岛校区则侧重健康、教育与商学。

• The Parkville campus is dedicated to pharmacy and pharmaceutical science and stands in the biomedical precinct beside the Royal Melbourne Hospital.帕克维尔校区专攻药剂学与制药科学，位于毗邻皇家墨尔本医院的生物医学区。

• The main campus covers about 110 hectares and includes teaching buildings, laboratories, libraries, sports facilities and student residences.主校区占地约 110 公顷，内有教学楼、实验室、图书馆、体育设施与学生宿舍。

• Its colours are blue and black, and the mascot is a robot named Dayton.学校的代表色为蓝色与黑色，吉祥物是一个名为戴顿的机器人。

• The Malaysian campus at Sunway near Kuala Lumpur has its own library, laboratories, residences and student life, and the Indonesian campus at BSD City offers graduate programmes intended to serve the wider South-East Asian region.位于吉隆坡附近双威的马来西亚校区拥有自己的图书馆、实验室、宿舍与学生生活；位于 BSD 城的印度尼西亚校区则开设研究生课程，服务范围涵盖更广的东南亚地区。

• The main Victorian campuses are served by trains, trams and buses, and the university runs shuttle buses between them.维州各主要校区由火车、电车与巴士连接，学校并在各校区之间开设穿梭巴士。

• Student residences are concentrated on the Clayton campus, with residential villages and halls providing several thousand places.学生宿舍集中在克莱顿校区，住区村与学生公寓提供数千个床位。

• The Caulfield campus, about ten kilometres from the city centre, is served by Caulfield railway station and is the centre of the university's business and design teaching.考菲尔德校区距市中心约十公里，由考菲尔德火车站连接，是学校商学与设计教学的中心。

• The Clayton campus also contains a science and technology precinct where the university's laboratories stand beside facilities run by research partners and technology companies, linking teaching to industry.克莱顿校区还设有科学与技术园区，学校的实验室与研究伙伴及科技企业运营的设施比邻而立，把教学与产业联系起来。

Reputation

• Monash ranks 31st in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, 61st in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 38th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.蒙纳士大学在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列全球第 31，2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名第 61，2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名第 38。^[1]

• It is one of the highest ranked universities in Australia and a member of the Group of Eight, and it has risen steadily in the global tables over the past decade.学校是澳大利亚排名最高的大学之一与八校联盟成员，过去十年间在全球榜单中的位次稳步上升。

• Its pharmacy and pharmacology programmes are among the best in the world, and it is highly regarded for medicine, nursing and engineering.其药学与药理学项目位居世界前列，在医学、护理与工程方面也广受认可。

• The university's medical and pharmaceutical researchers have contributed to drug discovery, clinical medicine and public health in Australia.学校的医学与药物研究人员为澳大利亚的药物发现、临床医学与公共卫生做出了贡献。

• Monash is named after Sir John Monash, whose name stands for engineering achievement and public service in Australia.学校以约翰·蒙纳士爵士命名，其名字在澳大利亚象征着工程成就与公共服务。

• Its graduates are prominent in Australian medicine, engineering, business and public life, and its alumni networks are active across Asia, with chapters in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and China.其毕业生在澳大利亚的医学、工程、商界与公共生活中颇具影响，其校友网络在亚洲各地十分活跃，并在马来西亚、新加坡、印度尼西亚与中国设有分会。

• The university's overseas campuses make it one of the most internationally distributed universities in the world by teaching locations.其海外校区使其成为全球教学点分布最广的大学之一。

• It is known for the scale of its clinical teaching and works with a large network of teaching hospitals in Victoria, and subject tables have placed it among the world's top fifty universities in pharmacy, education, nursing and engineering.学校以临床教学的规模著称，与维多利亚州庞大的教学医院网络合作；在学科榜单中，其药学、教育学、护理学与工程学曾位列世界前五十。

• In national assessments of research quality, Monash has recorded results at or above world standard across the great majority of its fields of research.在全国研究质量评估中，蒙纳士在绝大多数研究领域取得达到或高于世界水平的结果。

Student life

• The university motto, Ancora imparo, is Italian for I am still learning and is attributed to Michelangelo.学校校训「求知不倦」出自意大利语，相传为米开朗基罗所言。

• Students live in halls of residence and residential villages on the main campuses, and the university has a large and diverse student community.学生住在各主校区的宿舍与住区村中，学校拥有规模庞大且多元的学生社群。

• Monash has a very large number of clubs and societies, and its student association organises events across the Victorian campuses, including cultural festivals, careers fairs and sporting competitions.学校有非常多的俱乐部与社团，学生会组织跨维州各校区的各类活动，包括文化节、招聘会与体育比赛。

• Sport is organised through Monash Sport, which runs facilities, clubs and fitness programmes and competes in Australian university competitions.体育事务由蒙纳士体育组织，运营体育设施、俱乐部与健身项目，并参加澳大利亚的大学赛事。

• The Clayton campus has a strong residential and campus culture, with libraries, food outlets, a cinema and sports facilities within walking distance.克莱顿校区的住宿与校园文化氛围浓厚，图书馆、餐饮、影院与体育设施步行可达。

• Students at the overseas campuses study alongside local and other international students, giving the university a globally distributed student body.海外校区的学生与当地及其他国际学生共同学习，使学校拥有全球分布的学生群体。

• The university's courses are designed with professional accreditation in mind, and many programmes include placements, clinical hours or industry projects.学校的课程设计兼顾专业认证，许多项目包含实习、临床时数或行业项目。

• Student support services include careers advice, health services and academic skills programmes across the campuses, and Monash's location in Melbourne gives students access to the city's cultural, sporting and employment opportunities.学生支持服务包括职业咨询、健康服务与学术技能项目，覆盖各校区；学校地处墨尔本，学生还可以接触这座城市的文化、体育与就业机会。

• The students' association runs a legal service, an advocacy service and a network of clubs and societies across the Victorian campuses.学生会设有法律服务、权益服务，并在维州各校区运营俱乐部与社团网络。

Notable people

• Sir John Monash, after whom the university is named, was a civil engineer and one of Australia's most senior military commanders, and the university honours his combination of technical and public service.学校以其命名的约翰·蒙纳士爵士是一位土木工程师，也是澳大利亚最高级别的军事指挥官之一，学校以其技术才能与公共服务精神为荣。

• The university's medical and pharmaceutical researchers have worked on drug discovery, reproductive medicine, stem cell science and infectious disease.学校的医学与药物研究人员在药物发现、生殖医学、干细胞科学与传染病方面开展了工作。

• Its graduates include leaders in Australian business, engineering, law and government, as well as clinicians and scientists.其毕业生中包括澳大利亚商界、工程界、法律界与政府的领导者，以及临床医生与科学家。

• Monash researchers have contributed to public health policy and to clinical practice in Victoria and nationally.学校研究人员为维多利亚州及全国的公共卫生政策与临床实践做出了贡献。

• Alumni of the university are prominent in the professions in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries where it operates campuses.学校校友在澳大利亚、马来西亚、印度尼西亚以及其他设有校区的国家的专业界颇具影响。

• The university has produced writers, artists and musicians alongside scientists and engineers, and its performing arts programmes are active.学校不仅培养出科学家与工程师，也培养出作家、艺术家与音乐家，其表演艺术项目十分活跃。

• Its education graduates staff schools across Victoria, and its nursing graduates work in hospitals throughout Australia.其教育类毕业生供职于维多利亚州各地学校，护理类毕业生则在澳大利亚各地医院工作。

• Monash alumni have founded technology and pharmaceutical companies and hold senior positions in Australian and international firms.其校友创办了科技与制药企业，并在澳大利亚及国际企业中担任高级职务。

• The university's Malaysian and Indonesian campuses have trained graduates who now work across South-East Asia.其马来西亚与印度尼西亚校区培养的毕业生，如今在东南亚各地工作。

• Its information technology graduates are prominent in the Australian technology sector and in firms in the Asia-Pacific region.其信息技术类毕业生在澳大利亚科技行业以及亚太地区的企业中表现突出。