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Manitoba Advanced Education and Literacy

Post-Secondary Institutions

Distance Education

Assiniboine Community College serves southwestern Manitoba with a wide range of one-year certificate and two-year diploma programs in trades, business, nursing, media, health and human services, and office administration programs. In addition, the Province is proud to receive all of its agriculture training through ACC.

Campus Manitoba is a consortium of Brandon University, the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg and Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, Red River College, Assiniboine Community College and Keewatin Community College. CMB's function is to facilitate access to post-secondary education throughout the province of Manitoba through distance learning. Courses are delivered through the use of communication technology, the Internet and multimedia.

Canadian Virtual University is a consortium of universities across Canada, committed to delivering approximately 250 programs at the certificate, diploma, bachelor, and masters levels that can be completed from anywhere in the country or beyond. Both Brandon University and the University of Manitoba participate in CVU.

Red River College of Applied Arts, Science and Technology, located in the City of Winnipeg, offers a full range of more than 90 preparatory, certificate, diploma, joint university degree and advanced diploma programs in applied arts, business health, family and applied sciences, technology, trades and language training. RRC also boasts the recent merge with the nationally acclaimed Stevenson Aviation & Aerospace Training Centre.

The University College of the North is Manitoba's newest post-secondary institute and has campuses in both The Pas and Thompson. UCN is devoted to community and northern development, reflects the Aboriginal reality and cultural diversity of northern Manitoba, and provides a high quality post-secondary education especially relevant to Manitoba's northern residents.

University of Manitoba is Western Canada's oldest university and one of the largest and most prestigious universities in Canada. It has 17 faculties and four schools offering undergraduate and graduate programs in arts and sciences and professional studies, including agriculture, architecture, dentistry, engineering, management, medicine, medical rehabilitation, nursing, pharmacy and social work. The University of Manitoba also offers a wide array of courses in their Continuing Education and Distance Education divisions.

The University of Winnipeg is a medium-sized university, which has been nationally and internationally recognized for its quality education. It offers undergraduate degree programs in the arts, sciences and education, with more than 400 courses in 34 major areas. In addition, the university offers pre-professional programs (from one to three years) which prepare students for admission to professional schools ranging from law to medicine. Its Continuing Education and Distributed/Distance Learning Centers offer courses in Communications, Management, and Language.

NOTE: In addition to the university and college program, Distance Education courses are offered at some private vocational institutions. Please refer to the list of the private vocational institutions registered in Manitoba for more information.