would instead open a second campus at rapidly growing Campbelltown, was accepted by the federal government. As a result, it was renamed the Macarthur Institute of Higher Education from 1 July 1983, and operations in Campbelltown commenced that year. A temporary campus (initially a "Business Studies Centre") opened in the "Maryfields" monastery, which was leased from the Franciscan friars. Construction on a permanent campus, designed by Philip Cox and Associates, commenced in 1984. The new campus was expected to cost at least $16 million; the $9 million first stage, to be completed by 1986, involved a library, lecture rooms, a 300-seat lecture theatre, specialist science, computing and nursing facilities, lecturer offices and a student area with a cafeteria. The second stage, to be completed by 1987, included extra lecture rooms, further specialist and computing facilities, and performing arts facilities. By 1984, its academic structure contained five schools: Arts and General Studies, Community and Welfare Studies, Education and Language Studies, Nursing and Health Studies, and Business and Technology. In 1985, it began offering a Bachelor of Arts degree, the first of its kind in south-western Sydney. In the same year, it introduced the Associate Diploma in Community Studies (Youth Work) - one of the earlier youth work qualifications in Australia. A School of Nursing opened in February 1985 with 200 students at the Milperra campus, with another 100 students added at Campbelltown in 1986 once additional facilities there were completed. It was the only nursing school in south-western Sydney, and reports noted that it was expected to be one of the biggest in New South Wales once the Campbelltown intake began. In 1985, the college introduced an alternative entry scheme for undergraduate students from the Fairfield, Liverpool, Bankstown and Campelltown-Camden to assist more people from traditionally underprivileged south-western Sydney into higher education. This allowed students who had not attained the requisite marks in the Higher School Certificate to sit a Regional Entry Test. The college recorded a 35 percent increase in preferences among college and university applicants in 1985, largely for nursing, engineering, science and education courses. The first students began at the Campbelltown campus in 1986, with about 550 students in the initial intake. Student administration relocated from Milperra in the same year. The new campus offered courses in nursing, business and technology, arts and general studies. It formally opened on 27 November 1987. A Bachelor of Business (Economics and