Victoria University

VU is a dual-sector university serving Melbourne's west. The Footscray Park campus, the largest site, sits on the Maribyrnong River 6 kilometres west of the Melbourne CBD, with the City Tower (CBD postgraduate campus) at Flinders Lane, plus campuses at Footscray Nicholson, St Albans (health, paramedic, biomedical science), Werribee (sport and law for the growing west) and Sunshine (TAFE). VU pioneered the Block Model in 2018, teaching one unit at a time in four-week intensive blocks of three sessions a week. The result is a different rhythm to traditional semesters: students focus on one unit per block, complete it, and move on. Accommodation runs through VU Student Village at Footscray; most students commute from across western Melbourne by train on the Sunbury, Werribee and Williamstown lines. The VU Student Life team runs around 40 clubs. The brand is access for Melbourne's west, the Block Model intensive teaching, dual-sector pathways from TAFE to bachelor, and a strong sport science cohort through Victoria University Sport at the Werribee campus.

VU runs the Block Model with eight blocks across the year. Block 1 starts in late February, Block 2 in late March, Block 3 in late April, Block 4 in late May, Block 5 in early August, Block 6 in early September, Block 7 in mid-October, Block 8 in mid-November. Each block is four weeks of teaching with three sessions a week, and students typically take one unit per block. A summer block cycle runs December to February for catch-up and acceleration. Results release follows around two weeks after each block. Orientation sits in the week before each new term.