Studying at Fanshawe College: acquiring knowledge with high satisfaction

Fanshawe College is one of the largest comprehensive colleges in the Ontario area. This article offers a brief overview of the employment prospect of Fanshawe students and a detailed introduction of academic programs offered by Fanshawe College.

Fanshawe College is one of the largest comprehensive colleges in the Ontario area with more than 21,000 full-time students (including over 6,000 international students).

According to recently released Key Performance Indicators (KPI) survey results, Fanshawe students surpass provincial averages of all Ontario colleges in satisfaction rate and employment rate. As for employment rate, Fanshawe College graduates rank first in the Ontario area. 90.3% of Fanshawe alumni find jobs within 6 months of graduating, exceeding the provincial average by more than 4%. The high satisfaction rates are revealed from three aspects, students’ satisfaction rate (77.8%), graduates’ satisfaction rate (81.2%), and employers’ satisfaction rate (85.8%). 77.8% of Fanshawe’s current students are satisfied with their study and live in Fanshawe, exceeding the provincial average of 75.7%. As for Fanshawe alumni, 81.2% of them report being pleased with their college education. Additionally, employers who hire Fanshawe graduates are satisfied with the skills and contributions of Fanshawe graduates who work for them, reporting a satisfaction rate of 85.8%.

The primary objective of Fanshawe College is to help students achieve their career goals by offering over 200 various academic programs to 43,000 students each year, ranging from diploma to graduate programs, which meets both labour market demands and students’ unique needs. Fanshawe College also specifically designed a free online quiz, Fanshawe Pathfinder Quiz, to help determine which programs are most suited to students and their interests. Besides, Fanshawe’s close relationships with other colleges and universities provide students with the opportunities to explore diploma, degree, and master’s degree, with over 500 academic pathways from the time-honored Queen's University in Canada to other well-known universities located worldwide, for example, Griffith University in Australia, and the University of the West of England in the UK.

For the co-op program, an important component of Fanshawe College student’s career, Fanshawe has more co-op programs than any colleges in Canada, with about 60 co-op programs from Fashion Design to Civil Engineering Technology. Fanshawe’s co-op programs help students apply the theory learned in college to work situations and gain valuable work experience before graduate. Students and graduates have access to the Fanshawe job posting board, where over 17,000 employers post employment opportunities directly to Fanshawe students and graduates. Approximately 65,000 jobs are posted on the job posting board annually.

For potential students, it is good to know that Fanshawe has these programs below as their competitive programs in 2020:

  • Dental Hygiene (admission rate: 17%, total seats: 30)
  • Medical Radiation Technology (admission rate: 22%, total seats: 55)
  • Paramedic (admission rate: 25%, total seats: 55)
  • Practical Nursing-London Campus (admission rate: 33%, total seats: 94)
  • Social Service Worker (admission rate: 39%, total seats: 75)

In addition to these oversubscribed programs mentioned above, Fanshawe also offers a unique program, Aviation Technology - Aircraft Maintenance and Avionics, which is the only aviation school in Canada where students train on the simulation-based Virtual Maintenance Trainer (VMT) to navigate equipment bays, remove components and see results in real time.

To ensure students can successfully adopt online courses under this pandemic situation, universities and colleges are all working on providing sufficient support and services to students. In addition to providing full support to registered students, a new and unique attempt made by Fanshawe College is providing an early taste of the online courses to students who have not registered for the programs! By accessing FanshaweOpen, interested student can explore Fanshawe's online learning environment even before they choose certain program.

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