Okanagan College

Okanagan College
Former name
B.C. Vocational Institute, Okanagan University College
TypePublic
Established1963
Academic affiliation
CICan
Endowment$68,294,167 [1]
ChairpersonDale Safinuk
PresidentNeil Fassina
ProvostSamantha Lenci
Students5,100 FTE 2022-2023 [2]
Location
Kelowna, British Columbia, Vernon, British Columbia, Penticton, British Columbia, and Salmon Arm, British Columbia
CampusSuburban, Multicampus
Sports teamsCoyotes
ColoursWhite  ; black  ; red  
NicknameCoyotes
AffiliationsCCAA, CCBC, CBIE
Websiteokanagan.bc.ca

Okanagan College is a public post-secondary institution with multiple campuses spread across the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. The College was established in 1963 and grown to become one of the largest colleges in British Columbia outside the Lower Mainland and Victoria. It has roughly 5,000 full-time students per semester[3] across four regional campuses. 1,885 international students[4] from over 40 countries studied at Okanagan College in 2022-23, comprising 11% of its total student headcount. The College once had one of the fastest growing populations of Indigenous students of any college in the province; in the 2015-16 academic year Okanagan College delivered educational programming to 1,680 Indigenous students (more than three times the number that attended in 2005-06).[5] However, the growth did not continue, in 2021-22 the Indigenous student headcount remained at 1,690.[6]

  1. ^ "Okanagan College Financial Statements March 31, 2023" (PDF). Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Full-Time Equivalent Enrolments at B.C. Public Post-Secondary Institutions". Government of British Columbia. 2023.
  3. ^ "Data Catalogue". catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
  4. ^ "Post-Secondary Central Data Warehouse Standard Reports May 2023 Data Submission Headcount Totals" (PDF). Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 9 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Okanagan College Aboriginal Services". Okanagan College. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  6. ^ "Post-Secondary Central Data Warehouse Standard Reports May 2023 Data Submission Headcount Totals" (PDF). Government of British Columbia. Retrieved 9 September 2023.