University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne (informally Melbourne University or simply Melbourne) is an Australian public research university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Times Higher Education ranks Melbourne as 33rd in the world, while the QS World University Rankings places Melbourne 31st in the world. According to QS World University Subject Rankings 2015, the University of Melbourne is ranked 5th in the world for Education, 8th in Law, 13th in Computer Science & IT, 13th in Arts and Humanities, 14th in Dentistry and 18th in Medicine.

Melbourne's main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb north of the Melbourne central business district, with several other campuses located across Victoria. Melbourne is a sandstone university and a member of the Group of Eight, Universitas 21 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities. Since 1872 various residential colleges have become affiliated with the university. There are 12 colleges located on the main campus and in nearby suburbs offering academic, sporting and cultural programs alongside accommodation for Melbourne students and faculty.

Melbourne comprises 11 separate academic units and is

associated with numerous institutes and research centres, including the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research and the Grattan Institute. Amongst Melbourne's 15 graduate schools the Melbourne Business School, the Melbourne Law School and the Melbourne Medical School are particularly well regarded.

Four Australian prime ministers and five governors-general have graduated from Melbourne. Seven Nobel laureates have been students or faculty, the most of any Australian university.
LIBRARIES:

The Melbourne University Library has three million guests performing 42 million credit exchanges each year. The general accumulation involves more than 3.5 million things including books, DVDs, photographic slides, music scores and periodicals and in addition uncommon maps, prints and other distributed materials. The library additionally holds more than 32,000 ebooks, several databases and 63,000 general and master diaries in advanced structure. 

The libraries include: 

-Baillieu Library (expressions and humanities) 

-Brownless Biomedical Library 

-Eastern Resource Center (ERC) 

-Giblin Eunson Library (business, financial matters and training) 

-Law Library 

-Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library (in the past VCA Library) 

-Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library 

-Melbourne School of Land and Environment Library (Burnley, Creswick, Dookie) 


-Veterinary Science Library

As of May 2009 the college "suspended" the Bachelor of Music Theater and Puppetry courses at the school and there were reasons for alarm they may not return under the new educational modules. 

A 2005 heads of understanding over the merger of the VCA and the college expressed that the administration of scholarly projects at the VCA would guarantee that "the VCA keeps on practicing abnormal amounts of self-rule over the behavior and future advancement of its scholastic projects in order to guarantee their trustworthiness and quality" furthermore that the school's personality will be saved. New senior member Sharman Pretty laid out uncommon changes under the college's arrangement for the school in ahead of schedule April 2009.As an outcome, it is currently being raised doubt about whether the college have maintained that understanding. 

Staff at the school reacted to the progressions, guaranteeing the college did not esteem professional expressions preparing, and voicing reasons for alarm over the eventual fate of value preparing at the VCA. Previous Victorian expressions clergyman Race Mathews has likewise said something regarding the civil argument communicating his trust that, "Melbourne University won't continue with its proposed changes to the Victorian College of the Arts", and for 'good sense' to win. 


In 2011, the Victorian State Government assigned $24 million to bolster expressions instruction at the VCA[64][65] and the workforce was renamed the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.