University of Victoria (UVic)

• Student population: more than 21,000,
• Undergraduate offerings: more than 100 degrees, certificates, and diplomas.

• Graduate students: over 3,500,
• Graduate programs: over 160.

The Division of Continuing Studies welcomes adult, part-time, international, and distance students.

Registration dates and times are assigned by year level and GPA. Courses may include lecture, lab, and tutorial sections, and students register for each required section. For a full-year course, students choose the same lecture section for the fall and spring terms, while lab and tutorial sections may differ.

Most courses are taught in person, although blended, online, and multi-format options are also available. Undergraduate and law students may take up to 9 units, usually six courses, in a fall term, spring term, or summer session. An additional 1.5 units may be used for waitlisted courses, but the registered course load must stay at or below 9 units. Graduate students have no registration load limit.

Continuing Studies collaborates with UVic faculties, combining professional development with current faculty research and innovation.

• The Division of Continuing Studies offers diploma, certificate, and degree programs, as well as stand-alone courses for personal interest,
• the Faculty of Education and the Division of Continuing Studies offer courses, workshops, and certificate programs for K–12 teachers,
• Continuing Studies offers professional programs in business, technology, public relations, culture, museum studies, Indigenous studies, education, health, safety, languages, science, and ecological restoration.

Funded UVic climate research projects focused on economic transitions, the effects of wildfire on groundwater, regenerative housing, Indigenous climate leadership, climate misinformation, and clean technology adoption.

• More than 1,400 Indigenous students, including over 200 graduate students, choose UVic each year,
• the University of Victoria Students' Society was founded in 1964 and is a student-run nonprofit separate from the university,
• UVic Homestay matches over 1,600 students with local families each year,
• the program has operated for over 35 years and has worked with over 3,000 hosts to provide accommodation for more than 25,000 international students from nearly 100 countries.

For Continuing Studies students, UVic Homestay is available from September through June to those in the university's English language center or customized international programs, subject to availability. UVic dormitory accommodation is available to students in those programs from May through August, also subject to availability. Each homestay student has a private furnished bedroom, and no more than four students may live in one home.

Host families provide all meals and snacks, as well as basic wireless internet. They pick students up when they arrive in Victoria and take them to their departure location when they leave. Host homes are close to regular bus routes, with a bus stop about a ten-minute walk away.

• More than 150 environmental, cultural, political, religious, and recreational clubs operate on campus, are open to all students, and receive funding from student fees,
• more than 40 course unions represent UVic’s academic departments and organize academic and social activities related to their fields,
• the Graduate Students’ Society organizes graduate events and provides extended health and dental plans, room bookings, and travel grants.

This educational institution has become famous for scientific developments in various directions. It is difficult to find another such universal university on the planet. Consider the most recent advances made at the University of Victoria.

• In academic circles, the university has gained fame through research and discoveries in the medical field, in the biotechnological direction and engineering.
• The results of biological studies have allowed Australian scientists to conclude that the extraordinary usefulness of germinated cereals, which should be used for breakfast. It was also found here that if you add lupine flour to make bread, then such a product will help reduce the possibility of heart disease.
• A student of the university was able to invent a kind of wireless sensor that uses for its actions the energy released during earthquakes. The scope of the sensor is the assessment of damage after a geological disaster occurred.
• University scientists made a preliminary conclusion about the planetary temperature regime in 2100. Due to global warming, the average indicators on the planet will rise by 2 degrees Celsius, which will lead to irreversible climate effects.
• There have been studies related to gamers. Proved that they are 25 percent more prone to depression than ordinary people. At the same time, the mastering of educational material remains at the level of an ordinary student.

Unique facts

• Self-cleaning clothes have been created on the basis of university research centers.
• The data center from IBM is under construction here using Victoria University resources. In the future, the center will serve as an example of successful operation only on environmentally friendly and energy-saving technologies.

The university has an average status. This is due to an impressive number of students - 18 000 people. The presentation of the material in the class is in English. Foreign citizens can apply for admission to UV. They account for 13% of the total number of students. The teaching staff is 821 people, including many invited from abroad. The university participates in the student exchange program.

On campus there is a comfortable hostel, where students can optionally live. A serious basis for teaching is represented by a library, which every student can use during the period.

• The graduate application fee is CAD 145.25 if all documents originate in Canada and CAD 187 if any document originates outside Canada,
• the undergraduate application fee is CAD 89.50 if all transcripts come from institutions in Canada and CAD 184 if any transcript comes from an institution outside Canada,
• graduate students generally pay ancillary fees for the U-Pass, extended health insurance, and athletics and recreation access,
• some university service fees are charged each term, while others are charged when a student requests the service.

Undergraduate applicants apply to UVic through EducationPlannerBC.

• Admission to UVic Graduate Studies is competitive,
• in most cases, graduate applicants need to find a supervisor before applying,
• a graduate application requires the email addresses of two academic or professional references who are familiar with the applicant’s work,
• undergraduate applicants should submit their current or most recent grades as soon as possible,
• International Baccalaureate (IB) students upload their predicted IB scores through the UVic application portal,
• applicants following other international curricula upload in-progress transcripts through the UVic application portal,
• transfer applicants who are currently registered at another post-secondary institution upload an interim transcript through the UVic application portal,
• applicants who have already graduated from high school, college, or university arrange for an official transcript to be sent directly to UVic,
• admission is not confirmed until UVic receives official transcripts with final grades and any other required documents,
• students must have appropriate health insurance for the duration of their studies at UVic.

• Undergraduate applicants may receive automatic scholarships based on their admission average without submitting a separate application,
• other scholarships are based on admission average and additional criteria and require an application.

• Guardianship services during the studies
• Student supervision