Ballarat University set to take over Monash Gippsland

Monash University has started the process of offloading its Gippsland campus to Ballarat University.

The Vice-Chancellor of Monash, Professor Ed Byrne, informed Gippsland staff at a campus meeting today.

He says students currently enrolled in Monash courses will be able to complete their degrees.

But he says future degrees will not carry the Monash brand.

"The name of the new regional university which will, in all likelihood, not be the University of Ballarat," he said.

"[It] will be a new name reflecting a Victorian regional university [which] will be announced in due course."