VU also has arrangements with nearly 100 institutes around the world for student exchanges.

The VU Alumni Association has more than 80, 000 members in more than 140 countries, including in international chapters in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Thailand.

VU has research partners around the world.

Each VU has 72 vector registers, each of which has 256 vector elements, along with 8 sets of six different types of vector pipelines: addition / shifting, multiplication, division, logical operations, masking, and load / store.

The VU has about 22, 738 students, most of whom are full-time students.

Although current students and faculty members are adherents of many religions, as a consequence of its Protestant heritage, the VU has always placed a special emphasis on the social and cultural context in which it operates.

From its humble beginnings, the VU has become a modern research university.

The complete genome of Andel-Schipper has been analysed by the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, who are researching longevity genes.

VU has co-sponsored and co-supervised the awarding of ICS doctoral degrees.

The species has been assigned Vulnerable ( VU ) status because of several reasons including restricted extent of occurrence ( less than 20, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >), decline in habitat quality and number of mature individuals.

Since 1889, VU has been a two-year university, although baccalaureate degrees in seven select areas are available.

Unlike most other two-year higher-education institutions, however, VU is a residential campus and has been since its inception over two hundred years ago.

Its population in the wild has been reduced by habitat destruction and overcollecting ; it is therefore classified as Vulnerable species ( VU A2ac v2. 3 ) by the IUCN.

The U. S. News & World Report has ranked Vanguard among the best baccalaureate colleges in the west in their 2011-2012 rankings of colleges and universities and The Princeton Review named VU a 2011-2012 “ Best in the West ” College.

The ICS has had a long cooperative relationship with the VU, the University of Toronto's federation of Theological Schools, and more recently also the University's Faculty of Philosophy.

* Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin ( VU graduate, former ICS student, former Senior Member in Philosophical Aesthetics at ICS, now speaking and writing in England where her husband has taken a key post )

VU has a long history of athletics ; varsity and club athletics ( men ’ s baseball and basketball and women ’ s soccer ) and an intramural program are offered.

VU College provides a range of student support programs for local and international students across all VU faculties, including assistance with English language, literacy and numeracy.

VU conducts research with a wide range of partners including The Western Bulldogs, City West Water, Western Health, Linfox, the Victoria Employer Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Australian Institute of Sport, all levels of government, and other educational institutes in Australia and overseas.

VU owns and operates a range of accommodation for students, staff and guests of the University.

Victoria University ( VU ) is a multi-sector tertiary institution ( higher education and TAFE ) based in Melbourne, Australia. Operating out of 11 campuses in Melbourne ’ s CBD and western regions, VU offers qualifications in higher education through its Faculties of: Arts, Education and Human Development ; Business and Law ; and Health Engineering and Science ; as well as vocational education ( TAFE ), and short courses though its Faculties of: Technical and Trades Innovation, and Workforce Development.

In December 2011, VU had 51, 885 students enrolled in onshore and offshore courses.

The student cohort included 4, 354 course enrolments of international students studying onshore, and 9, 475 course enrolments of students studying VU courses at offshore partner institutions across Asia, including China, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Vietnam, as well as Germany.

VU introduced research SEED funding program to support collaborative research in applied economics, accounting, tourism, sports management, information technology and logistics at China ’ s Central University of Finance and Economics, and the Beijing Jiaotong University.

VU developed a research partnership with Brazilian researchers and conducted a sports science research symposium that attracted sports science researchers from Brazil and Australia, including senior researchers from the Brazilian Olympic Committee.

VU also developed a research partnership with the University of Malaya in sports science and biomedical disciplines.

Not wanting to support a media outlet that would cave so easily to advertiser pressure, several VU members started their own site and community, and built outward from there.

Impressions Games and the Papyrus Design Group were shut down in the spring of 2004, and about 50 people lost their jobs in those cuts ; 180 Sierra-related positions were eliminated at Vivendi ’ s Los Angeles offices ; and finally in June 2004, VU Games shut down Sierra's Bellevue location, which cost over 100 people their jobs, and dispersed Sierra ’ s work to other VU Games divisions.

Runner returned to the USA to teach, and from there sent back to the VU students to work on their doctorates under Vollenhoven in philosophy, one to do so under Dooyeweerd in jurisprudence, and others in an array of additional disciplines-such was Runner's influence!

As professor of philosophy at the VU, Vollenhoven realized that a systematic / thetical approach implied a critical framework for understanding and evaluating the philosophical work of others.

Together with fellow centre-right party the Progressive Citizens ' Party ( FBP ), the VU dominates Liechtenstein politics.

The SNP, although being a predominantly social-democratic party, joined the European Progressive Democrats, which was led by the Gaullist Rally for the Republic, the SDLP the Socialist Group, VU and FDF the heterogeneous Technical Group of Independents, which comprised both conservative and left-wing MEPs, and the SVP the European People's Party group.

Before, the regionalists had been seated divided, with the SNP with the Gaullist-dominated European Democratic Alliance, VU, the Valdotanian Union and the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) in the Rainbow Group, together with green parties, the South Tyrolean People's Party ( SVP ) with the Group of the European People's Party, and Batasuna among the Non-Inscrits.

The three remaining EFA member parties in Parliament ( SNP, VU and Canarian Coalition ) formed a common group with the French Energie Radicale list and the Italian Pannella List.

Communication sciences ( or a derivative thereof ) can be studied at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Radboud University, Tilburg University, University of Amsterdam, University of Groningen, University of Twente, Roosevelt Academy, University of Utrecht, VU University Amsterdam and Wageningen University and Research Centre.

Media studies ( or something similar ) can be studied at the University of Amsterdam, VU University Amsterdam, Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Utrecht.

VU was founded in 1916 as Footscray Technical School.

More than 90 nationalities are represented within VU ’ s student body.

This includes a Students as Staff program which provided more than 900 on-campus jobs for VU students in 2011.

Professor Peter Dawkins is VU ’ s Vice-Chancellor and President, and the Victoria University Council is led by the Chancellor, Mr George Pappas.

All graduates of Victoria University and its forerunner institutions are VU alumni.

Current students, staff, former staff and friends of the University are also considered members of the broader VU Alumni Community.

The VU Research Plan 2012-2016 supports multidisciplinary research in seven target areas: applied informatics ; diversity and wellbeing ; education, diversity and lifelong learning ; supply chain, logistics and transport ; sport, exercise and active living ; strategic economics ; and sustainable environmental technologies.