THE DIFFERENCE IS DEAKIN UNIVERSITY
Deakin offers a total university experience. You will receive a quality education that offers flexibility and prepares you for the real world. Our strong industry partnerships, state-of-the-art facilities and vibrant campuses provide a meaningful learning experience and guide you to achieve your career aspirations.
> Choice of study environments. With campuses located in Melbourne at Burwood, Warrnambool on Victoria's south-west coast and Geelong, Deakin allows you to choose between metro, regional or rural study environments.
> Study how and when you want - at Deakin it's your choice. Multiple course entry and exit points, deferment, and full-time and part-time study all allow you the flexibility to structure your study to suit your lifestyle, as well as your work and personal commitments. Deakin also uses innovative technology to deliver its courses including online resources like podcasts and MP3s.
> Graduate sooner and get a head start on your career. At Deakin you don't have to study a general degree before studying professional awards such as law, accounting or engineering.
> Deakin prepares you for the real world by providing opportunities to gain valuable experience and develop real workplace skills in courses that are taught by industry professionals and through industry placements, internships and overseas study programs.
> With hundreds of courses to choose from, Deakin offers you a broad range of options. Deakin continues to adapt and create new courses to meet ongoing trends in the Australian and international labour market, in addition to providing high quality traditional courses of study.
> Employers have indicated that they want graduates who are broadly educated, lateral thinkers. Deakin's Graduate Certificate of Arts and Sciences gives you the opportunity to take on studies beyond the field of your degree, at the same time as studying an undergraduate degree. From ecology or marketing, to IT and forensic science you can shape your study to suit your interests - or your career. We also offer a wide range of combined degrees that make you a highly sought-after employee.
> Deakin understands that self-paced online learning will play a major role in your ongoing career development; as a result all undergraduate students are required to complete at least one unit of their course fully online.
> Deakin's courses are developed with industry and professional input from specialised Course Advisory Boards. Through these professional links we ensure that our courses are relevant, practical and deliver the skills in demand in the workplace, so you can hit the ground running.
> Deakin's recent achievements have been recognised through many awards, including an Award for Teaching Excellence and nine Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in the 2007 Carrick Awards (now the Australian Learning and Teaching Council awards).
> Access to higher education is very important to Deakin. That's why we offer a range of scholarships to help with the costs of tuition and accommodation.
> Students tell us that Deakin's supportive staff and friendly environment make it a great place to meet different people with new ideas. Our welcoming atmosphere also ensures that we continue to treat our students as individuals with freedom of thought and action.
> Deakin is introducing a trimester system in late 2008, with trimester 3 to be offered as an optional additional trimester between November and February each year. This system will create even more choices for Deakin students who can commence a degree sooner, fast track study or even take a trimester off to work or travel, then catch up later. Find out more.