Federation University Australia (Fed Uni) is a public, multi-sector
university based in Ballarat in Victoria,
Australia. The university also has campuses in Ararat, Horsham, Stawell, Churchill, Berwick, and Brisbane,
as well as online technical and
further education (TAFE) courses and Horsham's higher education
nursing program.
Federation University is the fourth oldest tertiary education
institution in Australia, having begun under predecessor institutions in 1870,
during the Victorian
gold rush. With the merger between the University of Ballarat and Monash University's Gippsland campus in
2013, the university changed its name to Federation University from 2014.
