University of Ballarat

University of Ballarat

Former names	Ballarat School of Mines Ballarat Junior Technical School Ballarat Teachers' College State College of Victoria Ballarat Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education Ballarat College of Advanced Education Ballarat University College[1][2]
Type	Public
Active	1870 (1870)–2013 (2013)
Address	Main campus, Lydiard Street South , Ballarat , Victoria , Australia 37°37′34″S 143°53′28″E / 37.626°S 143.891°E / -37.626; 143.891
Language	English

The University of Ballarat, Australia was a dual-sector university with multiple campuses in Victoria, Australia, including its main Ballarat campus, Melbourne, Sydney, and Adelaide that were authorized by the university to provide diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate programs.^[3] The university offered traditional programs, including business, information technology, building and construction, engineering, mining, education, social sciences, nursing, hospitality, and art.

The University of Ballarat's history goes back to the gold rush era of the 1850s. It began as a tertiary school in 1870.^[1] In 1970, Founders Theatre was built at the Mt Helen campus after an appeal was made to commemorate the opening of the school 100 years earlier. The theatre opened in 1981.^[4]

The University of Ballarat was formed from a number of varying types of schools. The earliest was the School of Mines in 1870, which subsequently merged with other related organizations. Another was through Ballarat Base Hospital School of Nursing (1888). Ballarat College of Advanced Education was formed in 1976 with what began as a teacher's college in 1926, and Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education, which began in 1967 when it split from the School of Mines.^[1]

The university merged with Monash University's Gippsland (Churchill) campus in 2013, under the new name Federation University Australia.