University of Melbourne, Dookie campus

Melbourne University, Dookie campus (formerly known as Dookie Agricultural College) is an agricultural campus of Melbourne University near the town of Dookie, Victoria.

[2] The campus has a broadacre farm, dairy farm, orchard and winery, alongside teaching facilities, supporting both research and the university's Bachelor of Agriculture and other courses delivered there.

[1] The establishment followed a decade of discussion about the possibility of establishing an agricultural college, with the pre-existing Dookie Experimental Farm site reserved in 1875.

[3] It was the first of a planned series of agricultural colleges in Victoria and at its opening, had forty students undertaking a three-year course.

[5] It was amalgamated into the multi-campus Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture in 1983.