About the University City of the Future
A city born from a university where people, place and culture converge, and lives are transformed.
La Trobe University's Melbourne Campus at Bundoora is a special place that already provides a unique setting for learning, research and employment. With its substantial landholdings and location at the gateway to Melbourne's growing north, La Trobe provides unparalleled opportunities for the University and the wider community.
With Melbourne’s population expected to grow to almost 9 million people by 2056, La Trobe has been identified as the anchor in the Victorian Government’s La Trobe National Employment and Innovation Cluster, one of seven clusters to be developed, to support the projected significant employment and residential growth in Melbourne’s North.
As our population grows, over the next decade, La Trobe University will evolve into a world-class University City of the Future at our 235 hectare Melbourne Campus in Bundoora. The new infrastructure will turn our campus 'inside out' and welcome the local community onto the campus as a place to live, learn, work, socialise and stay healthy.
Our University City of the Future will create:
- 20,000+ new jobs over ten years
- Education facilities for 40,000+ students
- Additional housing for 12,000 students, staff and private residents
- $3.5 billion in Gross Regional Product (GRP) over the next ten years.
Investment in reliable transport infrastructure is crucial to unlocking jobs and residential growth in the north, and to connecting the north with broader Melbourne. We will work closely with the Victorian Government to create an accessible city with better transport links to further boost economic activity on campus and in the north.
Our University City of the Future will transform our campus into exciting new precincts.
See our progress
- Melbourne Campus Vision launched in 2012
- Melbourne Campus Masterplan released in 2014
- University City of the Future plan announced in 2018
2018
- La Trobe receives a six star Green Star Communities accreditation
- Health and Wellbeing Hub announced
- Sports Park AFL oval, soccer pitches, pavilion open
2019
- Nangak Tamboree officially named and works commence to enhance and protect the bio-diverse waterway
- Commitment to be Net Zero by 2029 is announced
- La Trobe-led Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Transformation Research Hub for Medicinal Agriculture (ARC MedAg Hub) launched
2020
- Stage 2 of the Sports Park completed with the opening of the La Trobe Sports Stadium
- 624 bed student accommodation project is completed
2021
2022
- Healthscope announced to redevelop La Trobe Private Hospital
- La Trobe announces Plenary as our preferred Master Development Partner
2023
- The Home of the Matildas officially opens
- La Trobe re-certified with 6 Star Green Star Communities rating
- Announcement of Victoria's largest urban solar farm
- Opening of the Digital Innovation Hub
- BioNTech announced to establish mRNA facility at La Trobe
- Healthscope to partner as hospital operator
- Medibank health partnership established to deliver comprehensive and coordinated physical and digital health and wellbeing services
- Northern Football Netball League (NFNL) calls La Trobe Sports Park home in a 20 year partnership
- Healthscope announced to redevelop La Trobe Private Hospital
- La Trobe announces Plenary as our preferred Master Development Partner to realise its ambitious plan to transform Melbourne’s north
- Digital Innovation Hub opens in partnership with global technology leaders Cisco and Optus
- BioNTech announced to establish mRNA facility at La Trobe
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Our University City of the Future journey is taking its next step with a refresh of the campus master plan, which will set out how the campus might grow and develop in the future.
From June to September 2022, we reached out to our local community, staff and students, to find out what they like about our campus, the different spaces and facilities they use, and how we can improve the campus to benefit the wider community.
You can read a summary of this feedback, which is helping us develop an updated master plan that will set out how the campus can grow to achieve our vision.
We are on our way to becoming a University City of the Future.