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Where to Now? 2025

Where to Now? 2025 Your guide to senior secondary school pathways in Victoria has details about the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), including the VCE Vocational Major (VCE VM), and where it can take you after you finish school.

This guide also details the Victorian Pathways Certificate (VPC), a flexible certificate designed for students in Years 11 and 12 who would benefit from an individualised program at a more accessible level than the VCE.

Every student has different interests and strengths. This guide explains the many choices you can make.

Make sure your path is right for you. Before you choose your pathway and subject preferences, talk to your teacher or careers practitioner.

Special Provision

If you want to do the VCE, VCE VM or VPC and you are affected by an illness, have an impairment or disability, or are impacted by factors relating to a personal circumstance, you may be eligible for special provision. Ask your school about what’s available to help you successfully finish your VCE, VCE VM or VPC.


Congratulations on reaching this important milestone – your final years of schooling.


The Hon. Ben Carroll MP
Deputy Premier of Victoria
Minister for Education
Minister for Medical Research

Read more of the Minister's Welcome

Sample programs

Ali likes the idea of working in a laboratory and would like to keep open the option of a biomedical science career. They have loved visual communication and design since Year 7 and would like to learn more about the business world. They are studying a scored VCE VET, and will finish secondary school with 6 VCE subjects.

Year 10 subjects

VCE Units 1 and 2 Legal Studies

Year 11 subjects

VCE Units 1 and 2 English,
Mathematical Methods,
Chemistry, Art,
VCE VET Laboratory Skills
VCE Units 3 and 4 Legal Studies

Year 12 subjects

VCE Units 3 and 4 English,
Mathematical Methods,
Chemistry, Art,
VCE VET Laboratory Skills

Jude really enjoys creating content for games and websites and wants to spend more time on the practical elements. They attended a workshop at a local TAFE during the school holidays and can see themselves studying there after they finish their VCE VM. Their career counsellor has suggested that this could lead to university studies in the future. They studied Year 10 mathematics that leads to General Mathematics, and their school has suggested that they enrol in this for their VCE VM.

Year 11 subjects

VCE VM Units 1 and 2 Literacy,
Personal Development Skills,
Work Related Skills
VCE Units 1 and 2 General Mathematics
VET Certificate lll in Screen and Media

Year 12 subjects

VCE VM Units 3 and 4 Literacy,
Personal Development Skills,
Work Related Skills
VCE Units 3 and 4 General Mathematics
VET Certificate lll in Screen and Media

Kai needs flexibility because they have family responsibilities. They want to use their time in Year 11 and 12 to improve their literacy and numeracy skills. They are thinking about working in a friend’s business or looking for an apprenticeship. They enjoy designing and making furniture.

Year 11 subjects

VPC Units 1 and 2 Literacy,
Numeracy, Work Related Skills,
Unit 1 Personal Development Skills
VCE Units 1 and 2 Product Design

Year 12 subjects

VPC Units 3 and 4 Literacy,
Numeracy, Work Related Skills,
Unit 2 Personal Development Skills
VET Certificate ll in Small Business

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