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University Canada West was founded as a for-profit university by David Strong, the former president of the University of Victoria, and a group of investors.It was intended to cater to British Columbian students who had been turned away from the province's public universities as well as the Asian Pacific market and had projected an eventual enrolment of 3000 students. [6]
The following is a list of private universities that are authorized to issue degrees by a provincial authority. The following list does not include satellite campuses (Northeastern University - Toronto) and (Niagara University) and branches in Canada for universities based in the United States. All of them are English language institutions.
Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences [6] Port Alberni: English 2007 — Quest University: Squamish: English 2007 — Trinity Western University: Langley: English 1962 Evangelical Free Church of America: University Canada West: Vancouver: English 2005 — Yorkville University: Vancouver [note 3] English 2017 [note 4] —
This is a list of colleges in Canada. Colleges are distinct from universities in Canada as they are typically not degree-granting institutions, though some may be enabled by provincial legislation to grant degrees using joint programs with universities or by permission of the provincial Minister of Education.
College in Canada most commonly refers to a career-oriented post-secondary institutions that provides vocational training or education in applied arts, applied technology and applied science. There are 14 public funded colleges and institutes in British Columbia.
In 2006, Canada and British Columbia's first private sector, for-profit, university, University Canada West, opens in Victoria. Former University of Victoria president, David Strong is the first president of UCW. A year later in 2007, Canada and British Columbia's first private, non-profit secular liberal arts and sciences university, Quest ...
Canada West (formally the Canada West Universities Athletic Association or CWUAA) is a regional membership association for universities in Western Canada which assists in co-ordinating competition between their university level athletic programs and providing contact information, schedules, results, and releases about those programs and events to the public and the media.
Formed in 1911, as the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), it represents 97 public and private not-for-profit Canadian universities and university colleges in Canada. It provides member services in public policy and advocacy, communications, research and information-sharing, and scholarships and international programs. [ 1 ]