VU

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The two-letter abbreviation VU has several different meanings:

[edit] Country codes

• VU is the country code of Vanuatu; .vu is its ccTLD.

[edit] Companies

• Air Ivoire, IATA airline designator
• Vivendi Universal, now Vivendi SA, a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet.

[edit] Music

• Volume Unit as measured by a VU meter.
• The Velvet Underground an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s, VU was an album released by this band.

[edit] Video games

• Visual Utopia, a web browser-based MMORTS.

[edit] Universities

[edit] Worldwide

• Vilniaus Universitetas in Vilnius, Lithuania.
• Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Vedanta University in Orissa, India.
• VU can refer to various universities named Victoria University (disambiguation page).

[edit] In the United States

• Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.
• Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania.
• Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana.

[edit] Unaccredited

• Virtual University.
• Video University.

[edit] Radio communications

Radio communication callsign series of India: 8TA-8YZ, ATA-AWZ & VTA-VWZ. VU prefixes indicate ham radio (amateur radio) stations from India.

[edit] Politics

• Venstres Ungdom, the youth wing of the Danish Liberal party Venstre
• Volksunie, a Flemish political party.

[edit] Other

• A Vietnamese family name
• Vu, a French pictorial magazine akin to Britain's Picture Post or the US's Life