Academy Sofitel is a hospitality training academy that operates within a 5-star hotel in Victoria. It was founded in 1998 as a private institution. It is located in Melbourne, Victoria. The Academy offers a diploma program in hospitality and a certificate in commercial cookery. Academy Sofitel also offers advanced diploma graduates the opportunity to undertake traineeships in Sofitel hotels throughout Asia. The Academy has a strategic alliance with Victoria University in Melbourne, and full articulation for Academy graduates into the university via the Personalised Place Policy.