About
You came to Swinburne for a degree, but our mission is to offer you much more. At Swinburne, student success is our priority. We guide students to unlock their academic potential and create lasting memories and relationships.
Our Story
Swinburne Student Union is run by a group of students elected by you the Swinburne students, and supported by an amazing staff team. The student representatives work to ensure the voice of the students is heard by the university. They actively collect feedback from students, attend university meetings, plan campaigns, run events and so much more.
Member Benefits
As an organisation run by students, we understand better than anyone the difficulties of being a student. We provide numerous support services for financial members and non-financial members including:
SSU Totebag +
Membership Pack
Diary and
Semester Planner
Free Coffee Fridays
Discounted Locker Hire
Daily Printing Credit
Weekly FoodBank Access
Say hello to your student council members
Student Council meets regularly to discuss issues of importance to the Swinburne community. As the governing body of the association, the Council has direct responsibility for ‘ensuring the proper management of the Union and its services’.All officebearers undertake governance and leadership training each year as part of assisting them in understanding their duties as elected student representatives.
We care about all students
We're here to help all students at Swinburne. We provide non-financial members a range of support services, including:
Free Daily Breakfast
Free Weekly BBQ
Exam Help Desk
Welfare on Wheels
Free Events and
Festivals
Free Swine Magazine
Did you know?
The Swinburne Student Union has a long and proud history of providing services and standing up for students at Swinburne University. In 1983, the Union became an Incorporated Association. In the late 1970s the Union facilitated the setup of the Swinburne Bookshop Co-Op including providing the bookshop with a space to operate out of until the construction of the UN Building in the 1990s. In the mid-1990s the current UN building at Hawthorn was built in a partnership between the Union, the Bookshop and the University.
Today, we’re still Swinburne’s only student representative body ran by a group of students elected by you, the Swinburne student community, supported by an amazing staff team. The student representatives work to ensure the voice of the students is heard by the university. They actively collect feedback from students, attend university meetings, plan campaigns, run events and so much more.