Deakin University

Studying at Deakin University provides students with an outstanding range of quality facilities allowing you to fully engage in university life and to be your best as you study.

Deakin has four welcoming campuses located in the State of Victoria, in the south-east of Australia.  Each campus offers a unique study experience. Whichever campus you choose, you will find Deakin’s local communities are friendly, safe and lively making for a perfect study environment. 

There are flexible options for on campus accommodation. Living on campus is so much more than just a comfortable bed in a safe building. Whether you choose your own studio apartment, to live dormitory style or in a shared unit, you will be connected to a supportive student community and enjoy a whole range of exclusive activities across the year. You can also choose to live off campus and receive advice from Deakin on options nearby your chosen campus.

Your wellbeing is important to Deakin and there are health facilities available on every campus. Deakin Medical Centre offers free and confidential nurse consultations and campus doctors will bill directly to your Overseas Student Health Cover.  

Melbourne Burwood Campus is Deakin’s largest. Located a short trip from Melbourne’s city centre, it offers the perfect balance between city lifestyle and suburban comfort. The campus boasts impressive buildings and world-class facilities.  

Some of our innovative facilities include:  

• The Telstra Trading Room, which operates like a real-life foreign exchange trading floor.  
• Dedicated spaces for dance and drama through to digital imaging, television and sound. An industry-standard newsroom and creative media lab where students can learn in an authentic media environment. The innovative Phoenix Gallery – perfect for exhibitions of student’s work.
• Our Motion.Lab is one of the most technologically advanced motion capture facilities in Australia. 
• Nursing Clinical Simulation Centres are available at every Deakin Campus, and provide flexible learning spaces that reproduce hospital and care environments including beds, technologically advanced and responsive human patient simulation mannequins, suction outlets and cardio monitoring systems, lifting machines and resuscitation trolleys.
• The new $33 million specialised Exercise and Sport Science Teaching Facility features four levels of state-of-the-art sport science learning facilities. 

In addition to the study experience, students love the relaxed atmosphere and huge choice of social spaces. The campus sits along parkland, which is great for cycling, walking and jogging. The Melbourne Burwood campus also has a gym and a wide range of sporting facilities.  

Deakin has two campuses in Geelong, Victoria’s second-largest city, a short train trip from Melbourne. A coastal city, Geelong is near some of Australia’s best surf beaches and is a vibrant sporting city, home to the Geelong Cats Australian Football League Team.

Geelong Waurn Ponds is known for its expansive grounds and impressive new buildings. It is home to cutting-edge engineering and medical facilities, as well as some of the world’s most advanced material science research spaces. These include:

• Deakin’s engineering precinct houses some of the most advanced and future-focused simulation and visualisation systems, purpose-built interactive laboratories and learning environments in Australia.
• Our Virtual Reality (VR) Lab is a unique facility which allows you to walk through virtual reality representations of products that are yet to be realised using virtual reality technologies. The VR Lab is the first of its kind in the world.
• Deakin's 3D GAIT Lab boasts the most advanced motion analysis available. As the only lab in Australia to partner with the developers of 3D GAIT it uses 3D motion capture and an instrumented treadmill to capture images on two sides of the body simultaneously.
• Our purpose-built and flexible crime scene training facility directly equips you with the skills you will need to succeed in the real-world of forensic science. With a kitchen, lounge room and bedroom set, it enables a wide range of scenarios to be staged.
• Deakin’s Elite Sport Precinct, which includes an Australian Rules football oval, FIFA-grade soccer pitch, athletics track, basketball courts and more.  

Geelong Waterfront Campus is located right on Corio Bay in the heart of Geelong, making for spectacular views from its many study spaces. The campus is a unique mix of old and new, full of engaging and creative spaces, and its central location means students can visit Geelong’s Central Business district between classes.  

Some of the cutting edge facilities you will find at this campus include:

• Our A+B studio and workshop, which houses the very best technology and helps architecture and built environment students work collectively. The entire space is open and flexible to accommodate your creative projects. The studio is also used as a teaching and research laboratory for measuring sustainable use of energy. 
• A large occupational therapy (OT) simulation teaching space dedicated to the comprehensive training of OT students. Complete with simulated kitchen, bathroom and bedroom spaces, this space is fully installed with SMART technology. 

Warrnambool Campus is located in the regional city of Warrnambool. Set alongside one of the country’s most scenic coastlines, this campus is close to surf beaches and popular tourist attractions.  Studying here is to be a part of a friendly community where students and lecturers have the opportunity to really get to know each other and work closely together. That sense of community extends to the whole of Warrnambool, providing support to new students in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere.  

• Warrnambool is home to a state-of-the-art nursing Clinical Simulation Centre. This centre provides flexible learning spaces that reproduce hospital and care environments including beds, technologically advanced and responsive human patient simulation mannequins.
• The Deakin aquaculture futures facility is equipped with a range of experimental systems, supporting research into a range of aquatic species and aquatic environments.

Wherever you study, you will have the opportunity to thrive at Deakin.  With world-class facilities and a vibrant and dynamic student culture you will have the chance to learn and achieve in a supportive environment.