Parkville - University of Melbourne (Ormond College)

Education in

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may be divided into four groups: pre-school, primary education, secondary education and tertiary education. Melbourne is home to some of Australia's largest university and prominent independent schools. Entry to tertiary education for most students is through the Victorian secondary school system where students are ranked by the

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(ATAR) upon completion of Year 12.

Tertiary education

Melbourne's two largest universities are the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb ...

and

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has ...

, the largest university in Australia. Both are members of the

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. The largest university campus in Melbourne by size is La Trobe University's Melbourne Campus, located in Bundoora. In 2016, the

was ranked first among Australian universities and the 33rd among universities in the world by the

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(THES) international rankings. Furthermore,

was ranked the 74th best university in the world. Due to these high rankings Melbourne was ranked as the world's fourth top university city in 2012 after

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and

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. Other notable universities in Melbourne include the

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering cla ...

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and

Swinburne University of Technology Swinburne University of Technology (often simply called Swinburne) is a public research university based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1908 as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne to serve those without acce ...

which have all placed in the THES rankings. The Geelong-based

Deakin University Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia. Its main campuses are in Melbourne's Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn Ponds, ...

has a significant campus in the suburb of Burwood in Melbourne.

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, has a total of nine campuses across Melbourne's western region, including three in the heart of Melbourne's Central Business District (CBD) and another four within ten kilometres of the CBD. Some of the nation's oldest educational institutions and facilities are located in Melbourne, including the oldest Engineering (1860), Medical (1862), Dental (1897) and Music (1891) schools and the oldest law course in Australia (1857), all at the University of Melbourne. The University of Melbourne is the oldest university in Victoria and the second-oldest university in Australia. In recent years, the number of international students at Melbourne's universities has risen rapidly, a result of an increasing number of places being made available to full fee paying students.

Primary and secondary education

Education in the city is overseen by the Victorian

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(DEECD), whose role is to 'provide policy and planning advice for the delivery of education'. It acts as advisor to two state ministers, for Education and for Children and Early Childhood Development. Private international schools include The Japanese School of Melbourne, the

Japanese school ''Zaigai kyōiku shisetsu'' ( 在外教育施設 "Overseas educational institution"), or in English, Japanese international school or overseas Japanese school, may refer to one of three types of institutions officially classified by the Ministry ...

Miscellaneous

* The Melbourne International School of Japanese is a weekend Japanese supplementary programme held for

Japanese Australian are Australian citizens and residents who claim Japanese ancestry. Japanese people first arrived in the 1870s (despite a ban on emigration in place until 1886). During the late 19th and early 20th centuries Japanese migrants played a prominent ...

and Japanese national students. *

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, a private school with higher education diploma programsDiploma of Business
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Tertiary education

Primary and secondary education

Miscellaneous

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