One of Canada’s largest public colleges, offering a wide array of programs in applied arts, business, financial services, and technology, with multiple campuses in the Greater Toronto Area.
Address: 1750 Finch Avenue East, M2J 2X5 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Applied Arts, Business, Technology
Domains taught:
- AI and Machine Learning, Automation, Data Analytics, Engineering, Industrial Design, Life Sciences, Software Engineering
Diplomas*:
- Bachelor, Certificate, Diploma, Graduate Certificate
Status:
- Public
Partnerships:
Strong partnerships with industry leaders for co-op placements, program development, and applied research. Known for its focus on career preparation.
Research:
Applied research in areas such as data analytics, cybersecurity, sustainable design, and applied innovation in business and community services.
Famous Alumnis:
Beverly Thomson, Dan Harris, Vivienne Poy
International recognition**:
Number of staff***:
2500
Current students***:
90000
Foreign students***:
30%
Cumulative former students***:
240000
Pros
Broad range of programs, strong focus on career skills and work-integrated learning, multiple GTA campuses, leader in specific tech and business areas.
Cons
Large institution, focus is primarily on diplomas and applied degrees, competitive for popular programs.
Best For
Students in the GTA seeking comprehensive polytechnic education with a strong emphasis on career readiness, applied skills, and industry connections.
Most Similar Schools Locally
- Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning shares the core fields of this institution, namely industrial design, life sciences and data analytics; it has almost the same size, at about 86,000 students, and is also a public institution.
- Durham College takes a similar route through automation, life sciences and data analytics, and it is smaller, enrolling about 30,000 students against roughly 90,000 here, and is also a public institution.
- Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is the closest domestic counterpart for industrial design, automation and life sciences; it is also a public institution, and teaches at the same levels, namely bachelor's, certificate, diploma and graduate certificate.
- Both schools build their programmes around industrial design, automation and life sciences, and Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology is the one to compare first within the country, since it is smaller, enrolling about 43,000 students against roughly 90,000 here, and is also a public institution.
- George Brown College of Applied Arts and Technology works in much the same fields, chiefly industrial design, automation and life sciences, and it teaches at the same levels, namely bachelor's, certificate, diploma and graduate certificate, and covers food science and manufacturing as well.
Most Similar Schools Abroad
- Looking internationally, Swinburne University of Technology in Australia is where industrial design, life sciences and data analytics get a comparable treatment; it also offers master's, doctoral, graduate diploma and mba programmes, and covers astroscience and robotics as well.
- Monash University (Australia) works on the same fields as this school, chiefly industrial design, life sciences and data analytics; it covers chemistry and physics as well, and has almost the same size, at about 86,600 students.
- The closest overseas parallel on industrial design, life sciences and data analytics is University of California, Los Angeles, located in the United States; it also offers master's, doctoral and mba programmes, and covers materials as well.
- Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University in Saudi Arabia shares the industrial design, life sciences and data analytics orientation of this institution, and it also offers master's and doctoral programmes and covers finance as well.
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the United States is the nearest foreign match on life sciences, data analytics and AI and machine learning; it is smaller, enrolling about 51,200 students against roughly 90,000 here, and is also a public institution.
*our own picks (our criteria: a mix between domains, diploma delivered, reputation and size), but obviously too many criteria for an apple-to-apple ranking.
- Cybersecurity, Innovation, Project Management, Quality Assurance, User-Centered Design
*: without any judgment of the quality, readers are strongly encouraged to check the official status of the exact diploma envisioned as many universities have a mix of recognized diplomas, not recognized, “co-delivered,” “equivalent to”, “some pathways” (…), can change over time, and can be named differently from one country to another.
**: international reputation: is based on some criteria that do not mean much in some domains or specialties (number of researchers, of scientific publications, on budget ….). Our approximate 1-4 scale:
- known locally
- known locally and internationally
- is listed in some of the world university’s classifications
- is listed among the 20 firsts in some of world university’s classifications
***: estimated numbers, based on online sources and/or feedbacks. The numbers can vary greatly depending on school organisation (ex.: school is part of a group, it employs internal staff or external consultants or has public staff without employing them …). Refer to all the links provided to have accurate and updated numbers.
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