The Campus features a wide range of native Australian flora and fauna, including over 2000 different kinds of plant life.
It is also accessible via the route 601 shuttle bus service which operates to commute solely between the campus and the nearby Huntingdale station.
The university also operates inter-campus shuttle buses to its Caulfield and Peninsula campuses.
[5] In 2018, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews announced that a new tram line would be constructed between Caulfield station and Rowville via Dandenong Road and Wellington Road, which would connect the Caulfield campus to the Clayton campus.
Monash University contributed $5M towards the $206M cost of the synchrotron as a member of the funding partnership for the initial suite of beamlines.
Facilities at the campus include: five football and cricket ovals (including a pavilion), 12 tennis courts, eight squash courts, a hockey field and pavilion, an American football field, a baseball field and pavilion, 21 badminton and table tennis courts, a martial arts hall, a fencing cage, a boxing studio and ring, a 1500m sq.
[17] Now something of an institution, the Nott was founded in 1891 as a half way house for travellers, but boomed from the early 1960s after the establishment of Monash, expanding to cover an area of 0.8 hectares.
[18] It was owned and run by Australia's longest-serving publican, Kath Byer (known as the Reverend Mother by students) from 1936 until her death in 2010.
[17] Monash Clayton also runs Host Scheme, the largest student-based orientation program in the Southern hemisphere.