La Trobe University opened in 1967 as Victoria’s third university. Founded on the belief that a university should be useful to the communities it serves, La Trobe has developed a distinctive ethos joining social engagement to the pursuit of academic excellence. La Trobe has a student population of more than 38,000 students, including more than 9,000 international students from over 100 countries. La Trobe offers more than 300 undergraduate and postgraduate courses in areas including arts and communications, business and commerce, teaching, health, IT and engineering, law and science. To enhance student employability, many courses include work placements that allow students to apply their skills to real, industry-based projects. The University’s eight campuses are located in Melbourne, Sydney and regional Victoria. In the 2018 Excellence in Research for Australia National Report, La Trobe was one of only four Victorian universities to achieve ‘well above world standard’ for research in 23 different research fields. La Trobe’s Research and Development Park is Australia’s largest wholly university-owned and managed network of technology parks. The Melbourne Campus is home to the La Trobe Institute of Molecular Science (LIMS) and the cutting edge Centre for Agribiosciences (AgriBio). Other leading La Trobe research centres include the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre; the Judith Lumley Centre for mother, infant and family health research; the Centre for Sport and Social Impact (CSSI); and the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS).