A new billion-dollar engineering campus will be built at Melbourne's former Holden site, but there are concerns about how students and will get there without any public transport links.
The University of Melbourne campus at the Fishermens Bend industrial precinct is expected to open in the early 2020s, Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas and vice-chancellor Glyn Davis announced on Thursday.
"At some point in time the state will deliver light rail access to the site," Mr Pallas told reporters.
However, he would not commit to a timeline for public transport to the campus, saying population in the area needed to meet the requirements before it would be delivered.
"We accept there is a responsibility on the state to participate in the delivery of appropriate transport," he said.
The university and government have had "intensive conversations" about public transport in the area.
"We are ourselves looking at running a bus service between the two campuses ... to help the first of the students at the campus get here," Prof Davis said.
The state-of-the-art facility will host 1000 post-graduate students and academics, he said.
Graduate engineering student Hannah Hubbard said it was a fantastic opportunity for the school to establish more links with industry.
"The students really get so much benefit from those industry links both from experience and from being in this location surrounded by this kind of infrastructure," Ms Hubbard said.
The university bought seven hectares of the ex-Holden site for the campus and spent $49.8 million.
Set-up costs are expected to be almost $1 billion and includes the purchase of the site, design and construction.
