• Year founded: 1916
• Students: 48,200
  
• Staff: 2760
• Alumni worldwide: 90,000
  
• Number of campuses: 9
• Number of offshore sites: 17
• Number of VU High Achievement scholarships in 2011: 32
  
• Value of VU-funded Equity scholarships in 2011: $428,000
• Value of postgraduate research scholarships in 2011: $4,059,68
• Number of Good University Guide stars given by Victoria University students for its cultural diversity: 5 stars
• Victorian of the Year winners: 1
• City to Surf winners: 1
• Professional golfers: 2
• Number of Olympians: 18
• Basketball champions: 3
• Australian Football Rules coaches: 2
• Victorian Treasurers: 1

Did you know?

• The University has more than 100 university exchange agreements in some 30 countries where students can learn and live like a local while adding an overseas mark of distinction to their studies.
• The APS College of Sport and Exercise Psychologists Student Award is named after one of our lecturers Professor Tony Morris, who is a pioneer researcher and writer in sport psychology.
• Our flagship $68 million world-class Sport and Learning precinct at Footscray Park Campus was recognised by the Australian Institute of Architects as one of the five best public buildings completed in Australia during 2011.
• Victoria University is one of the largest Australian providers of offshore education. Our University has an extensive network of partner organisations across Asia, Europe and Australia where its major offshore cohorts in 2011 were in China and Malaysia.
• The first classes in the Master of Business (Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (BMER) course commenced in July 2011 at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. This is VU’s first offshore program in India, delivered in partnership with Ganpat University.