Seneca College

More people choose Seneca than any other college in Canada. With 11 campuses across the Greater Toronto Area, Seneca provides internationally and nationally recognized education, training, and academic pathways key to graduate career success in the global economy. Every Seneca diploma, certificate and degree program is developed to a high academic standard, in consultation with industry, integrated with information technology, combined with technical and transferable skills, and reinforced by opportunities for ongoing education and re-training.

Seneca is a community of innovators and leaders who view education as an experience that transforms the lives of its participants. Renowned for offering the highest quality career-related and professional education possible, Seneca offers 84 diploma programs, 26 graduate programs, 11 Bachelor’s degrees, 17 certificate programs. In addition, there are more than 150 joint programs in Canada and around the world. For example, Seneca’s Liberal Arts program offers students the opportunity to begin their studies at Seneca College and complete them at the University of Toronto earning both a Liberal Arts diploma and a university BA degree in four years.

With a focus on student success, Seneca has partnerships with not only to other educational institutions, but industry leading organizations such as Mozilla, Apotex, and IBM. These connections benefit students by offering increased access to educational pathways, memberships to associations and insight from industry experts. They also offer students opportunities for applied learning and research. Seneca has recently been awarded two grants each worth $2.3 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for groundbreaking aviation and open source research. 

Campus locations:

• Buttonville Airport (Toronto)
• Jane Campus (Toronto)
• King Campus (Toronto)
• Markham Campus (Toronto)
• Newnham Campus (Toronto)
• Seneca@York (Toronto)
• Yorkgate Campus (Toronto)
• Scarborough Campus (Scarborough)
• Vaughan Campus (Vaughan)

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Applied Research and Innovation Services

Seneca collaborates with small- and medium-sized enterprises to resolve commercial problems and get new innovations from the campus into the marketplace. This enhances productivity and accelerates knowledge transfer by putting research into practice in a range of commercial sectors.

Seneca recently received two Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grants through the College and Community Innovation Program, for aviation and open source development.

• Seneca’s Innovation through simulation: Enhancing Canada's next generation of pilots will contribute to revitalizing anada’s flight training industry by finding new, innovative uses of technology for flight training; advancing Canada’s knowledge and applied research expertise in the field of pilot technical and non-technical skill transfer; and fostering sustainable applied research partnerships.
• With this grant, Seneca intends to scale and grow the research capacity of Seneca's Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT) to meet the ever-increasing needs of current and prospective partners. Seneca has become a world leader in academic involvement in the teaching and researching of open source software development. Working with such partners as Mozilla, IBM, and Red Hat, Seneca has pioneered a new method of student involvement in real-world open source software products.

  The research focus includes expanding internet browser capabilities; creating better management tools to enhance enterprise use of open source; exploring open source processes that will help open source developers to be more productive; and helping partner SMEs with open source product development.

The College has committed considerable resources to enhancing its long-term research capacity. In 2007/2008, the estimated value of student and faculty participation in applied research was more than $8.5 million. Applied research activity has grown steadily since 1999. Read about some examples of Seneca’s applied research successes or visit the College’s Office of Research and Innovation.

Newcomer Integration

More than half of the immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) have skilled work experience and/or a post-secondary education, yet they experience barriers to employment. Seneca is committed to meeting the needs of internationally-trained persons by providing education, training and support in order to create job-ready graduates who are prepared to make valuable contributions to Canada’s workforce.

The services and resources the College offers for internationally-trained professionals include: re-employment services for Internationally trained professionals; job search understanding; strategies and training; job connect; internationally-trained immigrant advisement; English as a second language; the mentoring partnership; prior learning assessment; the English Language Institute; the Centre for Entrepreneurship; and workplace language training. 

International Activities and International Educational Partnerships

Seneca prepares students from 75 countries for success in the global economy, by offering excellence in education, by creating a dynamic, state-of-the-art learning and working environment, by building strong relationships with our learners, our partners, our communities, and by preparing today's learners for tomorrow's careers.

With opportunities for life-long learning, Seneca students of all ages have access to more than 518 career options and 200 degree transfer options with 68 universities in Canada, Australia, England, South Africa and the U.S.

At a time when college graduates are needed more than ever, Seneca offers 87 diploma programs, 11 Bachelor’s degrees, 20 certificate programs and joint programs with York University, University of Toronto and Trent University. 

Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology is renowned for their expertise in:

• Aviation
• Business
• Sciences and Engineering Technology
• Environment and Sustainability
• Financial Services

Seneca offers Bachelor's Degrees in:

• Child Development
• Control Systems Technology
• Environmental Site Remediation
• Financial Services Management
• Flight Program
• Human Resources Strategy and Technology
• Informatics and Security
• International Accounting and Finance
• Municipal and Corporate Administration
• Software Development
• Theraputic Recreation

Seneca's Close Industry partners

• Mozilla
• Air Canada
• Apotex
• Blackboard Inc.
• CGA Ontario
• IBM
• Sanyo Canada Ltd.
• SUN Microsystems

 Top 5 countries of origin of International Students:

1. China
2. South Korea
3. India
4. Hong Kong
5. Saudi Arabia

Contact Information

Senior Executive:

David Agnew
President
(416) 491-5050 x7001
david.agnew@senecac.on.ca

Cindy Dundon Hazell
Senior Vice-President
(416) 491-5050 x2000
cindy.hazell@senecac.on.ca
     
Daniel Atlin
Vice-President, Strategy and College Affairs
(416) 491-5050 x2376.
daniel.atlin@senecac.on.ca