Canada's university for changemakers

Royal Roads University is a public, applied research university in Victoria BC.

Welcome to your change-your-life (and the world) education.

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What we offer

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Programs

We offer undergraduate and advanced programs in Arts, Science and Business.

For-credit courses

University credit courses with the possibility of transferring credit to a certificate, diploma or degree.

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Non-credit programs and courses

Non-credit programs and courses through Professional and Continuing Studies, and the Global Learning and Language Centre.

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About Royal Roads University

This is a place of life-changing transformation.

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Career impact

Graduates say RRU made a professional difference — and most report landing new jobs, earning higher salaries, or receiving promotions.

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Alumni pride

Students leave with more than a credential. They join a global alumni community that carries their life-changing RRU education with pride.

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Changemaker campus

RRU is one of only five Canadian universities recognized by Ashoka U for social innovation in higher education.

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Retention rate

Most students who start a program at RRU stay and finish. Our learning model, support systems and community make a real difference.

Land Acknowledgement

Hay’sxw’qa si’em nakwilia

[Hy-sh-kwa sea-em na-kwil-ia]
Thank you my honourable people

We acknowledge the campus is located on the traditional Lands of the Lekwungen-speaking Peoples, the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. With gratitude, we live, work and learn here where the past, present and future of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, faculty and staff come together.

Indigenous engagement
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News

Latest news

Stories about our people, programs and campus.

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WATCH: RRU President Steenkamp on Leading with Pride

“I think it’s critically important that people stand up. You can’t be auditioning for approval in every new room you stand in."

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Holocaust lessons resonate 80 years later, Royal Roads prof learns

Tourism professor Ann-Kathrin McLean travelled to Germany to research how Holocaust remembrance transcends generational divides.

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Woman of the Ocean: Christine Webster, from Ahousaht to academia

Assistant Prof. Christine Webster talks about completing her PhD on Nuu-chah-nulth leadership practices.

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WATCH: RRU President Steenkamp on Leading with Pride

“I think it’s critically important that people stand up. You can’t be auditioning for approval in every new room you stand in."

Holocaust lessons resonate 80 years later, Royal Roads prof learns

Tourism professor Ann-Kathrin McLean travelled to Germany to research how Holocaust remembrance transcends generational divides.

Woman of the Ocean: Christine Webster, from Ahousaht to academia

Assistant Prof. Christine Webster talks about completing her PhD on Nuu-chah-nulth leadership practices.