What is the best canadian university for the distance learning? THNX.

Thanx to u all..
my friend want to know the best canadian universities offer the distance learning? THNX.

 

Depends entirely on what degree is wanted, and in what subject area.

Athabasca is the best choice for many people, but there are more than a dozen others that are excellent and meet many people's needs.

 

Agreed with John.

I'm a new student to Athabasca. They've been outstanding in their student services this far. They offer the widest choices of D/L programs that I've found in Canada. There are others of course as John mentioned; Queen's for example, can't go wrong with them. They have fewer course selections and some physical residency requirements, but it's cheap and it's a great school.

If you have a Military background, and live outside of Alberta, then U of Manitoba is a no-brainer depending on your major of study.

I propably sound like an Athabasca ringer, but given my previous experiences with D/L, it feels like home to me.

http://www.athabascau.ca/

Take the tour, I'm sure you'll be impressed.


Cheers...Randy

 

As far as reputation as a university, Queen's would be considered one of the best in Canada. It is primarily a residential university.

Also primarily residential and a pioneer in distance education is The University of Waterloo. As long as 25 years ago they had many different programs and degrees by distance education.

Athabasca has always been a distance school, with just a few classroom offerings, from time to time, in special programs. It is about 30 years old and has developed the most comprehensive programs in Canada.

 

I don't disagree with the above replies, but you didn't specify whether you are interested in undergraduate distance learning or graduate. Canada has many fine players in the undergrad DL game, but almost none at the graduate level. This is a very old-fashioned country in terms of higher education, especially at the graduate level. (Remember that all universities are public here, as in Europe, and more elitist than in the USA -- even if that sounds like a contradiction.)

Beyond the bachelor's degree, Athabasca may be your only choice.

Looks like a good, rigorous school, too, although if name recognition figures in the mix, I would certainly choose Waterloo or Queen's or British Columbia. Or others. I have never heard Athabasca's name invoked in normal Canadian conversation.

Peter

 

Ths is not enterely accurate, there a lot of graduate programs offered by several universities. Please check the canadian virtual university website for a complete list of programs offered by DL.

http://www.cvu-uvc.ca/

 

The CVU options only extend to Masters degrees (most of which are MBAs) -- there are no distance PhD programs in Canada, at least none that I've been able to find. TechBC was absorbed into SFU. Anyone have any other leads? My area of interest is IS/IT and Mgmt of Technology. Thanks

 

The only PhD by distance that I know is the one offered by Téluq in Quebec, it is in "informatique cognitive" which is related to computer science. The program is from a french university but in Quebec you have the right to write your thesis in English or French.


http://www.teluq.uquebec.ca/


I once considered this program, but it is very intensive and requires about seven years part-time. It is a very serious program and not the typical american three years part time PhD.

 

Do tell us more...

 

"typical american three years part time PhD" Care to clarify this? Could we have the names of these 'typical' programs?

 

Thanks for the tip re: UQuebec, but alas the language barrier kicks in. I couldn't find an English version of the site (if one even exists).

 

Quebec has language laws and language police. Montreal used to share all the Canadian corporate head offices with Toronto.

With a requirement that day to day business be conducted in French, Toronto and Calgary share most of the corporate head offices.

The Quebec government has been nationalist and independentist, totally ignoring the economic well-being of the province, which is a basket case.

There are a couple of English universities in Quebec, McGill and the other one. English Quebecers are well served in education

 

Dennis is quite correct. In fact, some of the most interesting reading entertainment can be found in the English daily newspaper The Montréal Gazette, which has devoted major coverage to Bill 101 (the French Language Law) for many years.

Quebec is such a basket case that, when the laws were first passed, they allotted $25,000 to buy white masking tape for changing the street signs. For example, Sherbrooke Street, the main drag in Montréal, became Rue Sherbrooke. Likewise, St. Dennis Street (home to some of the best restaurants in the world) became Rue St. Denis, etc. Even the Anglo-owned stores had to change their signs - The Magic City Pool Room became, I kid you not, Billard Ville de Magie, and the famous Schwartz's Montreal Hebrew Delicatessen became Charcuterie Hebraique de Montréal.

A few months ago, I was up in Charlevoix, about 60 miles north of Quebec City. On the way back south, we stopped in at a Pizza Hut about 20 miles north of Montreal (a city in which most people can still speak English, although many of them don't like to admit it). The waiter was a high school kid, and we had to speak French to place our order - not because he wouldn't speak English (as is the case with some Quebecois), but because he couldn't speak it. The French are so political up there that they won't even teach English in many rural school districts. (Incidentally, Pizza Hut is no better when you have to order your pizza avec jabon et champignon.)

Incidentally, the "other one" Dennis mentioned is Concordia University - not quite as internationally prestigious as McGill, but also an outstanding school. In fact, if I were to enroll in a Montréal-based program, I'd probably choose Concordia.

 

Yes Concordia University. It was formed by combining Sir George Williams University with uh uh another one.

I have a friend who has a degree from there and it states Sir George Williams University of the YMCA. Useless trivia.


1996 census figures for Quebec

Laguages spoken:

English only 358,505
French only 3,691,715
Both 2,660,590
Neither 74,270
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7,045,085

Outside of the Montreal area, Quebec is largely a unilingual French speaking province.

My father spent some time in Montreal during WWII and said that he never heard anyone speaking French.

 

Most of the new PhD programs in the known DL institutions can be completed in a three year part time period. I'm talking about the PhDs at Capella, Touro, Walden and North Central. The PhD in question requires a minimum of 6 years part time.

 

It is also the cheapest english university in Canada and perhaps North America. A master's degree costs about $2000 US for a resident of Quebec.

 

Look, what makes Quebec a terrific part of Canada *is* precisely its Frenchness, and its separateness. The French-Canadians have a pride and bonhomie that is palpable. So bring a dictionary to Pizza Hut, if you need to. Or scrape off the mushrooms if you didn't realize you ordered them.

And Levicoff, what are you doing eating in this feeble franchise in a province that prides itself on dining, anyway? Sheesh.

To think you were one of my DL heroes....

Peter

 

I can smell the smoked meat even now! Dunn's or Chanois up on Sources Blvd....


R

 

When Andre Laurendeau talked about language issues in Quebec, he was at least civil. The current crop of language cops are the bastard brats of Maurice Duplessis tricked out in a little PC rhetoric about self-determination, maitres chez nous, unassimilable Jews, and other little chunks of sweetness and light.
The spirit of Vichy is alive and well. Pity.

 

The other one was Loyola College originally an English speaking Jesuit school.

Sir George Williams University had its origins with the Montreal YMCA.

Most of Canada's private universities sold their souls to the provincial governments for the almighty buck.