Postsecondary Institutions Moving from the US to Canada

If I had a dollar for every brick-and-mortar postsecondary institution more than a century old that’s recently announced it’s moving from the United States to Canada, I’d have two dollars. Which isn’t much, but it’s notable that it’s happened twice this year.

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (est. 1897) is moving from suburban Chicago to become part of Trinity Western University in British Columbia. Trinity International University, which had been the parent institution of TEDS, will continue as a US institution operating online programs from its California office, mainly a Calbar law school.

The Siebel Institute of Technology and World Brewing Academy (est. 1868), the United States’ first brewing school, is moving from Chicago to Montreal. “Recent regulatory changes in the U.S. have made it much more challenging for many of our international students, who have become the majority of our student body, to attend classes in person,” says its director of education.

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School will move to Canada in acquisition deal (Bob Smietana, Religion News Service, April 8, 2025)

Oldest Brewing School In The US Leaving For Canada, Citing Trump Visa Restrictions (Charles Thrush, Block Club Chicago, November 21, 2025

 

I sit on an awards panel with ATD. Once, I scored a package from a Chinese beer company. They built a new brewmaster development program. But, because China didn't have much in the way of brewmasters, they sent their candidates overseas--after giving them language training. They also provided very good follow-up development. It was all quite elegant. Although this company sent people to a school in Germany, I wonder how much the school in this thread relieed on students from China in a similar dynamic?

 

In other news, George Brown College, the public community college for downtown Toronto, has suspended key hospitality programs in Toronto but continues similar programs on its partnership campus in Dubai.

George Brown suspended hospitality programs here, but still runs them in Dubai. ‘That doesn’t make sense,’ say faculty: The international partnership was agreed to just before a provincial ban. The college said the overseas school “serves a different student market.” (Kristin Rushowy, The Toronto Star, November 24, 2025, snapshot via archive.today)