In announcing the decision, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Michael Osborne, said the alignment process had been a complex exercise and he highlighted the positive contribution made by all sectors of the University.
He drew attention to two significant features of the alignment process - firstly, the creation of a new Faculty of Education, to have its headquarters at the Bendigo campus; and secondly the consolidation of the University as a single institution embracing five multi-campus Faculties.
Professor Osborne said that it was vital for students at regional campuses to have access to academic programs on a par with those at the metropolitan campus and that a series of multi-campus Faculties seemed to be the best vehicle for such an aspiration.
'In this context it is highly significant that La Trobe University is the only regional university to be ranked amongst the most prestigious universities of the world in all three recent international reviews.'
In the review of research-based universities by the Swiss Centre for Science and Technology Studies, La Trobe University was ranked seventh in Australia.
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