Future Students

Five good reasons to study at La Trobe

1. You’ll be fully prepared for professional life.
   La Trobe graduates enter the workforce with strong academic, professional and life skills. Studying here gives you a balanced mix of academic work, industry experience and overseas study opportunities, integrated with great opportunities for student leadership and community involvement. This means you’re not only academically proficient when you graduate, but professionally skilled and worldly – able to make a real contribution to your workplace and society.
2. Your learning experience will be of the highest quality.
   La Trobe provides a highly supportive learning environment, dedicated to student-centred learning. When you study at La Trobe you’ll be working with highly qualified lecturers and tutors, many of whom have extensive professional profiles and industry experience as well as outstanding track records in research. And your academic work is likely to include significant work experience within your chosen industry, giving you invaluable professional knowledge, skills and contacts.
3. You’ll develop strong networks in industry and community.
   La Trobe has many highly productive links with industry and government, evident in our research initiatives, the professional networks and associations of our teaching staff, and the industry experience we offer our students. As a La Trobe student, you’ll be strongly connected to the profession in which you intend to work, and well aware of new developments in your professional field.
4. You’ll be supported along the way.
   Each La Trobe campus offers a range of services to give you the best possible support while you’re studying; we provide integrated programs specifically designed to enrich personal and academic skills development. You’ll have access to a wide range of activities, staff and resources designed to help you polish your academic skills and life skills, along with up-to-date computing facilities, careers and employment advice and information, counselling, health services, financial aid, Indigenous Education support, an Equity and Access Unit, financial help and legal advice. You’ll also have access to advocacy/representation and other support through the Student Representative Council and the Student Services Guild.
5. You’ll be in a great environment for study and for social, sporting and creative activities.
   Studying at La Trobe makes you part of a real community – it’s a university that offers an exciting social and recreational life as well as perfect places for study and relaxation. Some of the feedback we hear most frequently is that students enjoy their time here not only because of the quality of their course but also La Trobe’s lively, friendly community spirit and wonderful campus environments.
   
   
   Content approved by: Director, Future Students Centre
   Page maintained by: Future Students Centre
   Last updated: 29 February, 2008