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There's a real synergy in education here – connecting institutions, research, government and industry in exciting, unparalleled ways. We invite you to explore more.
- Algonquin College / Carleton University: Bachelor in Information Technology (B.I.T)
The B.I.T. program offers two streams: a specialization in Network Technology and a specialization in Interactive Multimedia and Design. Both streams are unique in Canada and provide an innovative mix of courses drawing on a variety of disciplines. The program is designed to offer both a broad-based education in technology and a general multidisciplinary education. In addition to core courses in computers, programming, network technologies, and related project work, students study math, physics, communications, business, and take courses in arts and social sciences.
Unique Selling Features:
- Inter-school collaboration
- Well linked to local private sector
- Only program in Canada to deliver this level of multidisciplinary academic preparation and practical experience
- Many of the technology courses in this program are taught by experts working in the Ottawa industry
- Graduates receive both a bachelor's degree from Carleton University and a diploma from Algonquin College
- La Cité collégiale: Bachelor of Applied Technology – Biotechnology
This is the only program of its kind for biotechnology in Canada. It provides intensive academic preparation and practical experiences for students in the areas of biopharmacy, agro-food, environmental science, product development and regulation. This 4-year program boasts a co–op placement program, delivered in conjunction with federal research labs and biotechnology companies in the Ottawa, Toronto and and Montreal regions.
Unique Selling Features:
- Unique in Canada
- Combines a full university science program in a small and focused college setting
- Combines academic with practical laboratory work, co–op placement, ethics and business training
- Delivered in collaboration with public and private sector partners in region
- Benefits of a partnership with l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) that gives students of the program access to graduate studies in chemistry, with an option in biochemistry
- The program comes with bursaries of excellence valued at $5,000, where in the the first year, students receive a bursary of $2,000 and receive $1,000 for subsequent years based on certain criteria
- University of Ottawa: Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation
The Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation (CCRI) is the only academic centre in Canada whose mission is to achieve excellence in catalysis on a global scale. The CCRI is a multidisciplinary centre created in 2000, first as a means to consolidate the traditional strength of the University of Ottawa in the field of Catalysis, and then to build on this strength to create a world-class institution in this area.
Members of the CCRI are from the Department of Chemistry (Faculty of Science), the Department of Chemical Engineering (Faculty of Engineering), the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology (Faculty of Medicine), the Ottawa Health Research Institute and the National Research Council of Canada. Other industrial and public partners include Agriculture Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Rohm and Haas, Shipley Co., GlaxoSmithKline, Sasol ( South Africa ), Merck, BP, ConocoPhillips.
Unique Selling Features:
- Unique in Canada
- Multidisciplinary
- Multiple industrial and public partners
- Carleton University: Electrical Engineering / Photonics
Ottawa is recognized as one of the world's outstanding centres for photonics research, teaching and commercialization. Carleton University is the primary incubator school. As part of the Electrical Engineering and Science programs, Carleton University jointly developed Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre with the National Research Council (NRC). This is one of the top three photonics research centres in the world. Through its labs Carleton is building an industry cluster that builds links from the classroom through to research, government and business locally and internationally.
Unique Selling Features:
- The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC) is one of the top photonics facilities in the whole world
- Strong collaboration between Carleton and public and private sector partners to pool their resources, develop photonics technology
- University is seamlessly connected to the local industry
- Carleton University: Foundry Program
The Foundry Program is a university tech transfer office of a very different and intelligent colour, unlike any other in Canada. It provides grants to technology research projects that fit well into the Ottawa region's unique economic mix of high tech, science and government. Unlike other tech transfer offices, it doesn't waste time assessing a myriad of novel technologies for viability. It only looks at those pertinent to this region. Thus, it moves quicker and more effectively and is spawning a whole regional economic strength, rather than isolated novel technologies.
To each funded project, it assigns interfaculty teams of student interns and professors drawn from science, engineering and business programs. These teams work to build market viability of the project through competitive analysis, patent search and technology due diligence. The technology is targeted. The business cases are fully developed. The students get a deeper and real-world experience in the challenges of technology commercialization.
Unique Selling Features:
- Approach to developing technology and businesses is tightly connected to the university mandate and local economy, very different from other university tech transfer offices
- It spins off companies and technologies that are well-developed and with a higher potential for success
- It develops only targeted technologies that fit into existing business, science and government frameworks locally
- La Cité collégiale / University of Ottawa: Journalism
This collaborative program gives students access to a wealth of resources and experiences. Students can choose the diploma program, or add two years to their studies and complete the Bachelor degree. In many cases, students start with the Bachelor degree and then come to La Cité collégiale for the diploma second, benefiting from the highly practical laboratory work in its full television and radio studios, as well from the co–op placements. The result is a crop of students that is who are academically well-rounded, technically skilled, and always highly sought after, especially by the national broadcast television and radio networks of Radio-Canada and CBC, and francophone print publications as well as major newspapers.
Unique Selling Features:
- Collaborative program provides access to resources at both institutions of the College
- Academic resources at the university, and the technical resources of the college
- Well-established relationships with francophone media outlets
- University of Ottawa / Carleton University: Music – The Piano Pedagogy Research Laboratory
The Laboratory provides the infrastructure and support needed to carry out scientific research on learning to play the piano. Graduate students interested in piano pedagogy are trained in research and participate in innovative projects in this field. Among the areas to be researched are the use of new technologies, video-conferencing for distance education, analysis of learning factors, the effects of different teaching methods, and the importance of good posture and appropriate movements at the piano.
Unique Selling Features:
- Unique in Canada
- Collaborative program brings together researchers from both institutions
- Multidisciplinary approach involving specialized researchers and technologies
- Trans-Atlantic collaboration involving young piano students in Finland
- Algonquin College / University of Ottawa – Nursing
This program offers one of the richest nursing training experiences in Canada and multiple learning opportunities for its students. Students can obtain a Practical Nursing diploma, or a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The technology employed in the program is unparalleled. The Simulation Centre for Health Studies Lab is key in giving the students practical experience and training using high-tech mannequins, drastically shortening the adaptation period when they enter into their practicum or when they start working professionally. Local high-tech company, March Networks, is a partner in their tele-health training, providing cutting-edge technology. Additionally, the Foreign-trained Nurses program helps test, train and place nurses from other countries quickly into the Ontario health care sector.
Unique Selling Features:
- Collaborative program with advanced high-tech resources
- Officially recognized by Ontario Ministry of Health as a Hub of Excellence
- School approach is one of health sector leadership, not a follower.
- Unique simulation laboratory
- Important partnerships with local high-tech companies (tele-health and simulation lab)
- Important partnerships with local and provincial health care sector (hospitals, clinics, government, etc . )
- Algonquin College: Police and Public Safety Institute
The result of a partnership between Algonquin College and the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Police Service that began in 1996, the state-of-the-art Police Institute permanently houses regional police training facilities at Algonquin. In addition to enhancing the education, training and professional development opportunities in the areas of Police, Public Safety and Justice, the institute also enables the police service to be an integral part of the academic community. The institute has allowed the College's Justice & Security Sector to expand beyond Security and Alarm Systems, Security Management and Information System Security into programs including Emergency Communications, Security Investigation and Aboriginal Policing, as well as specialized workshops tailored to meet the needs of corporate clients.
Unique Selling Features:
- Collaborative program to develop essential skills within the community
- Provides the foundation for the continued growth and development of leading-edge Justice and Security programs
- Positions the College as an educational leader in the public safety field in Canada
- University of Ottawa: School of Political Studies
Created by the University of Ottawa in December 2003, the School is a mecca for the study of politics. Through both disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, the School of Political Studies fosters an in-depth knowledge of the phenomena of power and authority, opposition and resistance, in their various forms, at the local, national and international level.
The School of Political Studies is unique in Canada, bringing together under one roof the programs in Political Science, Public Administration, International Studies and Modern Languages, the certificates in Public Management and Governance and the Centre on Governance. This drawing together of disciplines promotes the development of synergies between the School's programs, stimulates closer collaboration among its researchers, and facilitates the deployment of pioneering research at the junction of public administration, political science and international studies.
Additionally, the School of Political Studies draws on its particular situation as part of a bilingual university, at the centre of Canada's national capital, at the border between Ontario and Quebec . The School's teaching staff and programs reflect the two principal cultural and linguistic traditions of Canadian society, while being open to the international dimensions.
Unique Selling Features:
- At the political hub of a G8 capital
- Important academic and public sector partnerships
- House of Commons Pages Program and Senate Pages Program
- Students also benefit from the opportunities to work, volunteer, or hold co-op placements in a variety of public service, government and non- governmental organizations in Ottawa, a G8 capita l l
- Students can study in English, French, or both
- Important partnerships with several social research institutes and Ipsos-Reid
- Algonquin College / La Cité collégiale: Skills Training
In order to address shortages in skilled trades and to meet the needs of business and industry, Algonquin College and La Cité collégiale collaborate in the delivery of skilled trades training. Recently, the two institutions collaborated effectively to meet the training needs of the Royal Military College in both official languages.
Preliminary work has begun on the creation of a Centre for Construction Trades and Building Sciences, which will create a dynamic learning environment that enables cross-discipline interaction to enhance development of ideas, concepts and solutions to ensure that graduates are project-ready. It will also provide access to integrated teams of students and professors, helping to foster creative, innovative thinking.
Unique Selling Features:
- Inter-school collaboration
- Delivered in collaboration with public and private sector partners in region
- Addresses key shortage in skilled trades
- Many of the courses in this program are taught by experts working in the Ottawa industry
- National Arts Centre / Algonquin College: Theatre Arts and Scriptwriting Programs
Algonquin College makes excellent use of the facilities of the renowned National Arts Centre 4th Stage Theatre to showcase the talents of students of the Theatre Arts and Scriptwriting programs. The 4th Stage Theatre has been the setting for a number of years for the Scriptwriting program's “Hot House Series” productions, for which the Scriptwriting students employ their creative writing talents. The Theatre Arts program has staged full plays, as well as student monologue showcases at the 4th Stage Theatre.
Unique Selling Features:
- Partnership between a renowned cultural institution and local academic institution
- Academic resources of the college, and the technical resources of the arts centre
- Students are given the rare opportunity to learn in an esteemed arts environment
- University of Ottawa / Carleton University: Joint Masters and PhD Programs
The joint graduate programs between Carleton University and the University of Ottawa offer students the unique advantage of benefiting from an enriched education offered through both institutions. The joint programs are offered at the master's and doctoral levels by almost all of the departments in the Faculties of Engineering and Science, and distinctively in the economics doctoral program and the joint master of international affairs and bachelor of law program. In addition to an increased network of faculty to learn from, students are also able to work, research and study within the two institutions' ongoing partnerships with each other and with other academic, industrial and governmental institutions. All of these elements combine to give the students within these joint programs an engaging and enhanced learning experience.
Unique Selling Features:
- Collaborative program brings together graduate students from both institutions
- Students can study in English, French, or both
- Involvement of several different faculties
- Engaging and enhanced learning experience is offered
- La Cité collégiale: Skilled Trades Institute
The Skilled Trades Institute of La Cité collégiale is the largest Francophone skilled trades training centre in Ontario. It offers 27 training and learning programs in such areas as construction, manufacturing, transportation and the service sector. The Skilled Trades Institute also plays an important role in continuing education for area tradespeople.
The Skilled Trades Institute promotes careers in the skilled trades, trains hundreds of apprentices every year, and successfully meets the training needs of numerous businesses. In fact, in 2005 and 2006, the Skilled Trades Institute of La Cité collégiale was awarded the Consumers' Choice Award by area businesses for the quality of its professional and skilled trades training programs for both adults and businesses.
Unique Selling Features:
- Area greater than 77,000 sq feet dedicated to workshops and laboratories equipped with the best and latest tools to recreate conditions on the job
- Teaching distinguished by its use of both French and English terminology
- Select partnerships with other educational institutions, government agencies, and industry leaders
- Financial assistance for students and tax credits for employers, thanks to support from the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
- Permanent bursary program instituted by the Foundation of La Cité collégiale to support students registered in programs related to the construction industry
- Accreditation agreements with school boards allowing high school and college credits to be granted to future graduates
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