University Courses in Ontario

Algoma University, Ontario:
Surrounded by the rich, natural beauty of Northern Ontario, in Sault Ste. Maria, Algoma University is a diverse community of over 1200 students, offering more than 30 academic degree programs taught by internationally known experts in fields such as Business, Community Development, Economics, Biology, History, Psychology & Computer Science. Algoma University has more than 40 years experience in offering undergraduate liberal arts and science programs.

Algoma U offers more than 30 academic degree programs in fields such as Business, Community Development, Economics, Biology, History, Psychology, and Computer Science. 

At Algoma University, you'll find an academically challenging curriculum designed to bring out the best in you. Our programs, like our faculty and students, reflect Algoma U's core values of diversity and inclusion. You'll discover an academic setting where classroom instruction, field-based learning, mentorship and collaborative learning are integrated to create the kind of intensely interactive environment where you'll always be engaged with professors and other students.

Algoma University is the smallest university in the province dedicated to providing a cross-cultural learning experience and fostering student success. Our classes are capped at 65 students, but even then, most only have 22 students. Students have plenty of opportunity to learn and work alongside our dedicated faculty, and take part in a variety of undergraduate opportunities, including research positions. Our students benefit from an affordable educational experience, since they can earn one of Ontario's best entrance scholarships. If you have an 80 percent average or higher, you can win a $6,000, $10,000, or $12,000 scholarship over the duration of four years! Plus, tuition at Algoma U is one of the lowest.

Algoma University is proud to have professors who take an active interest in the growth and development of their students – professors who want to know who their students are and what will help them succeed. Algoma U's faculty is committed to disciplinary and cross-disciplinary expertise and to the creation of an intensely interactive academic environment where every student gains maximum benefit from their engagement with professors and with fellow-students. It’s an environment that encourages creativity, imagination, critical thinking and risk-taking. Algoma University’s professors are academically accomplished, deeply committed to excellence in teaching, and fully focused on student success.

Algoma University's housing options are affordable and located on campus. The New Dorm, Spirit Village International Dormitory, and our townhouses are centrally located on the Algoma University campus, less than a minute walk to classes, computer labs, a fitness facility, and major transit routes.

You have two choices for on-campus housing: dormitory units and townhouse style units. First-year students or students who have been out of high school 15 months or less are typically housed in the dormitory. Townhouse residence is available to returning, mature, and transfer students.

All rooms in residence are private, single rooms, and all rooms and common areas have open internet access via active network connections as well as a residence-wide wireless system.

Fresh air, blue waters and wide open skies - Algoma University is in Sault Ste. Marie, and Sault Ste. Marie is located in a spectacularly beautiful part of Ontario. Here you'll enjoy all the comforts of the big city and still be able to make it to one of the most beautiful beaches or highest ski hill in the province within 45 minutes.

The cost of living is very manageable, even for students who chose to live off campus.

•Part-time jobs are available to students on or off campus.

•Sault Ste. Marie has been designated an International Safe Community by the World Health Organization; it is a safe and comfortable place to live too.

•Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan lies on the other side of the St. Mary’s River, just a short trip over the International Bridge.

•Sault Ste. Marie (also known as ‘The Sault’) is also one of the sunniest places in Canada, and is becoming an alternative energy hub with solar and wind energy developments.