Completed Projects
The College Foundation aims to raise important funds that will support and enhance a range of exciting learning experiences and opportunities for each and every student.
Our projects extend into the provision of student scholarships and capital works projects including academic and residential improvements.
Student Accommodation Building Program
As a residential college, the opportunity to live and learn together is what makes Marcus Oldham unique. Study companions, life-long friendships and future business connections are often formed in residence.
The College continues to experience incredibly strong demand for places in its programs. As student numbers have increased, the College was forced to source accommodation alternatives off site due to the limited number of bedrooms available on campus.
Students come from every state and territory of Australia and internationally to live and learn at Marcus. With more than 70% of students originating from outside Victoria, it is a truly national college, contributing to the agriculture industries right across Australia.
The ratio of 40% female students is in line with the agriculture and agribusiness industries, where women are increasingly choosing to build successful careers.
These students choose our College to experience the complete ‘Marcus Experience’ – to live and learn on campus.
To meet the strong demand for a place at Marcus Oldham, a new accommodation building housing 30 additional bedrooms was opened in 2022. The Baillieu Wing increased our capacity to accommodate up to 150 students on campus.
In 2024, the College commenced building a further 45-bed student accommodation wing. The building was designed and costed at $10 million. It is 3-stories high and was built in the heart of the college. The location aligns with the Marcus philosophy of keeping everything within easy, undercover, walking distance to encourage student interaction and learning.
Marcus Oldham College does not receive State or Commonwealth Government funding and is proud that its impressive capital developments have been funded through the generosity of its community and supporters.
Marcus Oldham College is a registered charity. Tax deductible gifts can be made to the Marcus Oldham Foundation. You can make a one-off donation or a pledge with annual payments.
“Marcus Oldham produces the best Agriculture and Agribusiness graduates in Australia. Industry tells us they are the best graduates in the country, and the graduates themselves say they have the best learning experience from Marcus Oldham.”
Andrew Baker
Principal
Hear from our students about how much they value their “Marcus Experience”, and the investment in their learning and living facilities.
Industry is reliant on great minds; people with real practical skills, knowledge and innovative ideas, entrepreneurial talents and a strong business acumen.
In 2015, Marcus Oldham announced its plans to build a state-of-the-art Learning Centre. A unique teaching facility that would provide a range of dynamic learning spaces, access to phenomenal technological capabilities and the ability to connect educators, students, graduates and business leaders from around the world.
The goal was to provide industry with a new kind of leader. A dynamic graduate equipped with 21st-century skills, experience and a global mindset.
In February 2020, The Douglas Boyd Centre was officially opened. A celebration of fundraising achievements and a new chapter in educational excellence, shared with current students, graduates, friends and supporters of the College, staff, College executives and our project Patron, Philip Myer and the extended Myer-Boyd families.
Who could have envisaged that only weeks later, the exciting year envisaged, would look starkly different as the College, along with the rest of the world, were forced to navigate their way through COVID-19.
Please take a look at how this important facility supported our student’s learning program during this unprecedented time.
