Your Pathways

At Northern College, we’ve got a lot to brag about. Small class sizes, great learning facilities and fantastic faculty, warm, welcoming campus communities and that doesn’t even include the wonderful backdrop of Northern Ontario. Our programs are employment focused; you have access to direct learning opportunities. Sure, we’ll teach you the concepts behind the work you’ll be doing in your chosen field, but we’d much rather give you the tools, the project and let you put those concepts to the test as soon as we can. For us, this mantra is at the heart of everything that makes a College education a fantastic option. But what if you could take the College foundation, and turn it into a University Degree? We call it an academic pathway, but you’ll call it a fantastic opportunity! Northern College has a number of these academic pathways with dozens of Universities in Canada and overseas, specifically tailored to give you a world of options on your educational journey.

Here’s one way it could work: Let’s say you enroll in our two-year Mining Engineering Technician program and complete your two years at Northern. Once you’ve received your diploma, worn your cap and gown, you can head straight out into the working world no problem, you’ve got the training you need to succeed in the modern world of mining and mine engineering. However, let’s say you’re not ready to do the 9-5, or you’d feel a lot better with a degree backing you. You can seamlessly transition to Queen’s University’s Bachelor of Engineering Technology and end up with a degree in two years. It’s the perfect balance, you get two years of practical, hands on training and another two years of the kind of University level education that will help give you that leg up as you enter the working world. Sound like an awesome opportunity? We feel the same way, which is why Engineering Technology isn’t the only University ‘pathway’ we’ve got on offer, check out all of the ways you can upgrade your education, without losing credit for the work you’ve put in.

Algoma University Athabasca University Brock University Carleton University Cape Breton University Fredericton University University of Guelph Griffith University (Australia) Universite De Hearst Husson University (USA) IOTI (Ireland) Lakehead University McMaster University Nipissing University Ottawa University Queen’s University Ryerson University Sligo (Ireland) Trent University Thompson River University University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UIOT) Wilfred Laurier University York University