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Vancouver Island University

Discover a future with more

At VIU, you connect with tomorrow's leaders, creators, keepers and makers. You harness the power of community to fuel your future with more:

  • more job opportunities
  • more impact on the world
  • more earning potential

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Explore 100+ programs

Whether you’re looking for the arts, sciences, trades or humanities, VIU has a program for you. 

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Jacob Tortorelli

Bachelor of Kinesiology

"The professors make you work for everything you get. But there was never a point in time where I felt my teachers didn't care."

How to become a VIU student

Discover your place at VIU

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Learning at VIU

Follow your interests to find a program that’s right for you.

Learning at VIU

 

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Admissions

Find out what it takes to be a VIU student. Spoiler alert: we make it easy! 

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Student life

Explore your opportunities to get involved at VIU.

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Leaders, creators, keepers and makers connect at VIU, nurturing a good life for generations to come. 

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Visit VIU’s Nanaimo campus

Experience VIU with all your senses during a campus tour. Take in the stunning ocean view and the surrounding forest. Explore all the campus has to offer with a student ambassador as your guide. 

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VIU News

Celebrated Poet Marilyn Dumont to give the 2025 VIU Gustafson Lecture

Dumont’s lecture is Thursday, October 23 from 7 to 8:30 pm on the Nanaimo campus. Renowned poet Marilyn Dumont is Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) …

VIU offers innovative ways to combine trades and business training

The institution is the first in Canada to offer direct pathways from Culinary Arts and Baking training into a Hospitality Management degree.  Turning a…

VIU hosts free all-ages community event

Spend an afternoon at Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Nanaimo campus for VIU Fest, a free, annual community event showcasing the best the university has…

VIU Events

Oct
10

Learn hul'q'umi'num'

Join us for a welcoming hour of introductory hul'q'umi'num' language and story at VIU Library. Anyone interested in listening, learning and speaking hul'q'umi…
Oct
11

Watermelon Seeds Festival of Literature

Second annual Watermelon Seeds Festival of Literature. Internationally acclaimed and award-winning novelists, poets, playwrights, and journalists read in…
Oct
14

VIU Student Spa Clinic

The VIU Student Spa Clinic located on Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus. Our clinic is a teaching facility, where students enrolled in the…
Oct
15

WIL Coffee and Learn

FUSIONDear VIU Faculty and Staff, That time of year has come again, and CEWIL (our national organization for WIL) has put together some amazing webinars…
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Brooks Gill

Information Technology and Applied Systems

"The experience you get at VIU is extremely valuable. The skills you walk out of here with prepare you for a successful career."

How to become a VIU student