Vancouver Island University has been the home base to my education for the last four years, and I am so grateful for it. There are consistently community events and I always feel a part of something when I am on campus. The faculty are always lovely and supportive.
Just get ready to stretch your legs! There are a lot of stairs and the campus is built on a hill. My calves are real strong after four years of this! Wheelchair access to buildings can be lacking and navigating campus purely by ramp is confusing.

In my last year of my program the entire faculty of my program accused me of plagiarizing. When I proved to them with months worth of evidence that my work was my work and no one else’s, they turned a blind eye to it. Never apologized and told me it was the best for me to sweep it under the rug and forget about it. Once I have received my degree I will be going to the dean and whoever is the top person at VIU to inform them about this. The professors in this program are the most unprofessional people I have ever come across in my whole life. They pick favourites and grade on a curve depending on how much they think you deserve based on their teachers pet’s work. The building smell like mold and have deteriorating since I’ve started going to school here.

They act like they care about the students mental health but then refuse to help when asked. One of my closest friends was extremely suicidal and all the professors were aware but still pretended like nothing was going on. They talk poorly about her to one another while her fellow classmates are around, and they don’t even lower their voice, it’s like they WANT us to hear what horrible people they are.

Absolutely WORST university! Never in a million years would I recommend people to become a student at VIU. They are millions of dollars in debt and are making tuition cost more every semester thinking everyone just shits money out of their ass.

They scam, they lie and they racially profile.

I hope they soon file for bankruptcy because this university is a joke!!