Higher education in British Columbia

See also: List of colleges in British Columbia and List of universities in Canada § British Columbia
Province of British Columbia

Higher education in British Columbia is delivered by 25 publicly funded institutions that are composed of eleven universities, eleven colleges, and three institutes. This is in addition to three private universities, five private colleges, and six theological colleges. There are also an extensive number of private career institutes and colleges.[1] Over 297,000 students were enrolled in post-secondary institutions in British Columbia in the 2019-2020 academic year.[2]

Each of the province's post-secondary institutions sets its own admission requirements. Generally, successful graduation from high school, with the required academic prerequisites, is needed for admission to programs. Special consideration may be given to mature applicants, Aboriginal peoples, and people with disabilities. Information about admissions and prerequisites is available from the registrar's office of each institution. ApplyBC.ca (formerly PASBC) was a system-wide application portal (developed by BCcampus, a publicly funded organization whose role is to support higher education by providing leadership in the use of Information and Communications Technology,[3] that allows people to apply for admission.

In 2015, the Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills and Training (AEST) initiated a dialogue with the public post-secondary sector to explore a common online application platform for students applying to public post-secondary education in B.C., similar to those used in other jurisdictions. EducationPlannerBC has replaced ApplyBC.ca as the new common online application portal for Universities in British Columbia [4]

  1. ^ Listings available via the Private Career Training Institutions Agency Archived 2007-06-28 at archive.today (PCTIA) or the BC Career Colleges Association Archived 2008-05-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (2021-11-24). "Postsecondary enrolments, by registration status, institution type, status of student in Canada and gender". www150.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  3. ^ "Student Services and Data Exchange » BCcampus". Archived from the original on 2012-02-28. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
  4. ^ "About Epbc Background". Archived from the original on 2019-03-25. Retrieved 2019-03-25.