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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

Learn about a future with more

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Explore 100+ programs

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

Browse VIU programs

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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.

Learn about student life

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. 

Take a campus tour

VIU News

VIU in the news: October 1 to 10, 2025

Researching a relatively unknown eating disorder, recognition for work against gender-based violence, investigating tumour behaviour and more. Here’s how VIU…

VIU Fest, health experts and more

VIU Fest, a free, all-ages community event, is coming up on October 18. Check out live music, explore the pumpkin patch, take part in hands-on science demos…

Alumni Spotlight on Jane Stoller

Jane Stoller, also known as Organized Jane, has helped transform hundreds of businesses with her six-step system. She used her Master of Business…

VIU Events

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…
Oct
15

Breathe Between Classes

Take a moment to reset with Breathe Between Classes — a series of yoga-style events offered throughout the semester at various beautiful spots around the VIU…
Oct
15

VIU Research Chair Speaker Series

Research curious? Come and learn more about the inspiring research going on at VIU. Over the fall term, some of VIU's research chairs will share what…
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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