Centennial College is fast becoming one of the most attractive global education institutions for Asian students wanting to study in Canada, long known for its pluralistic society and multicultural population.
President and CEO Ann Buller said: “For the future, I’d like to see more partnerships as more of our students do interning and practical programs and get international experience.”
Based in Toronto, Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology is Ontario’s first public-funded college, hosts more than 6,000 foreign students, and has 80 languages represented on campus.
Centennial College, in recent years, has won the Association of Canadian Community Colleges Gold Medal for Internationalization and the distinguished Canadian Bureau for International Education Excellence Award.
Its largest markets are China, India, and just recently South Korea with majority enrollees seeking business and engineering studies as their first choice.
Centennial College has had a Center of Entrepreneurship on its campus for over a decade and has incubated more than 3,600 companies, with an impressive retention rate of above 90 percent.
The school has invested around 300 hundred million dollars in the last 10 years on both facilities and capital to provide a state-of-the-art learning environment for its students.
The college has built a strong relationship with China over the last 20 years and now has four offices in China. In line with its growing ties with India, it also opened one office in the country.
Buller said: “We’ve had success there (China) up to the most recent one in Chongqing. In each of the cases, there’s a phenomenal market. Our brand is very strong and out there we have the programs that are needed in demand.”
