The Peninsula campus of Monash University is Monash's fifth-largest campus, with over 3,000 students and almost 300 staff. The campus is located at the "Gateway to the Mornington Peninsula", in the Bayside suburb of Frankston. It continues to specialise in its historical strengths of health and early childhood education. Monash teaching in primary education, nursing and physiotherapy are all based at Peninsula Campus. The campus offers programs from undergraduate through to PhD level. It has research strengths in health and well-being, education and business. At any one time, there are around... 100 higher degree by research students at Peninsula Campus. The Peninsula Campus of Monash University was originally a teacher's college, which opened in 1959. It was based in the historic Struan House, an early 20th century building which is now the Monash Peninsula Postgraduate Studies Centre. The College gained independence and state funding in the early 1970s, and from 1974 was known as the State College at Frankston. During this time, it educated many teachers who went on to become quite well known in children's education, such as author Paul Jennings.
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| Location: | Frankston, Victoria
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| Founded: | 1959 |
| School type: | Public university |
| Total enrollment: | 3,230 |