Victoria University, whose starting points backpedal to 1916 when Footscray Technical School started, was built in 1990 and expects to be a University of chance for understudies from differing nations, societies, financial and educational foundations.
Our vision is to be Excellent, Engaged and Accessible and universally perceived for our authority in:
empowering a various group of understudies to develop their abilities, change their lives and discover genuine progress through fantastic showing and learning
engaging with industry and group to improve the world a spot through the creation, imparting and utilization of new learning.
We try to be globally eminent for our particular educational program underscoring work-incorporated learning, group coordinated learning, learning-incorporated work, critical thinking and multifaceted abilities.
We are centered around driving connected and translational research in three interdisciplinary subjects:
Sport, wellbeing and dynamic living
Education, long lasting learning and workforce advancement
Sustainable businesses and liveable urban areas.
Inside our namesake, the State of Victoria, and especially our heartland the West of Melbourne, we intend to be a pioneer in instruction, workforce improvement and learning trade with business, government and the group, in ten key industry bunches:
Sport and Recreation
Educational Services
Built Environment
Tourism and Major Events
Financial Services
Health Services
Community Services
Legal Services
Supply Chain Logistics
Creative Industries.
We likewise expect to be an Australian pioneer universally, particularly in learning trade with a few noteworthy nations in the Asia Pacific area, for example, China, India, Malaysia and Timor Leste, where we have built connections and dynamic organizations.
OUR History
Victoria University (VU) was established in 1916 as Footscray scientific School. After progressive mergers with TAFE schools over Melbourne's western rural areas, Victoria University of Technology was secured in 1990, and renamed Victoria University in 2005.
Today, VU is one of the biggest and most socially different training foundations in Australia, and one of just five multi- location colleges offering professional instruction (TAFE) and advanced education courses.
VU now has more than 48,000 enlisted understudies, which incorporates above 13,400 worldwide understudies considering our courses coastal or with our accomplice foundations seaward. More than 2,400 scholastics, showing and general staff join with the University's understudies to make VU a college that is magnificent, drawn in and available.
VU keeps up solid connections with nearby groups, government and industry, and is unmistakable on account of its transformational part in enhancing the lives of individuals and groups, particularly in the western metropolitan district of Melbourne.
In 2016, we will be commending a Centenary of chance. This critical point of reference denote 100 years of conveying high caliber.