A new “green field” campus in Labasa was scheduled to have opened in 2020, but has been delayed by the termination of construction company's contract, compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic.

[4] A new gymnasium complex, four-storey business school at the Nasinu Campus and a new three-storey teaching building at Fiji Maritime Academy have been completed.

The second Vice Chancellor was Professor Nigel Healey, a British-New Zealand economist who served a four-year term between 2016 and 2020.

[5] He left FNU at the end of his term to become Provost and Deputy President of the University of Limerick in Ireland.

Professor Wilkinson served for 15 months until March 2022, before returning to the University of Cambridge for family reasons.

The College's programmes are all vetted by the relevant Industry Advisory Committees before being approved by the University's Senate.

With the aim to take education closer to the community, FNU programmes particularly in Accounting, Economics, Computing Science and others, are all offered via 5 campuses around Fiji including Nadi, Lautoka, Ba and Labasa.

The College of Engineering, Science & Technology offers a variety of academic programmes of study, with the Samabula Campus hosting most of the programs.

It was originally established in 1963 to train students in technical and vocational disciplines, to meet the engineering human resource needs of Fiji.

The Humanities Department of this College, including its widely known music section, is based on the Raiwai Campus (UniStudio) in Suva.

In the 1990s, an Australian aid programme helped establish training for secondary teachers and in 1992 the Fiji College of Advanced Education opened at the Nasinu site.

The College of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry is connected to a number of other public and private national institutions with whom it collaborates in training, research and community service.