UOIT applauds province’s new guide on university-college credit transfers

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is pleased to be one of the founding participants of a new guide that will govern course credit transfers between Ontario universities and colleges.

As part of Ontario’s spotlight week on post-secondary education, the Honourable Brad Duguid, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, has unveiled the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT) Course-to-Course Transfer Guide (C2C Guide).

The C2C Guide is a new student-facing database that will let students look up credit equivalencies for courses for which they are seeking transfer credit between specific universities and colleges. UOIT is one of 34 Ontario post-secondary institutions that are part of ONCAT when it launches on Monday, January 20. A further 10 institutions will join ONCAT in March.

“The University of Ontario Institute of Technology has always been firmly committed to facilitating pathways between colleges and universities,” said UOIT President Tim McTiernan. “We currently have 19 undergraduate programs with pathways that allow college graduates to transition to a university degree. UOIT is working towards having articulation agreements with every Ontario college to promote our college-university pathways.”

As an example, the university provides 23 diploma-to-degree Pathways for graduates of Durham College, UOIT’s campus partner in Oshawa, to obtain an undergraduate degree in 15 programs. At the same time, Durham College offers 16 college graduate certificates and six fast-track program Pathways for UOIT graduates to obtain an Ontario College Graduate Certificate or Advanced Diploma.

Ontario universities are committed to increasing student mobility and have been working with colleges to increase pathways across the post-secondary education sector. There are now more than 600 distinct Pathways involving multiple institutions, creating more than 35,000 student-transfer opportunities across the province.

UOIT is holding a Pathways Information Night on Wednesday, February 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Energy Systems and Nuclear Science Research Centre (see uoit.ca/pathways for details and registration information).

Quick facts about UOIT Pathways programs:

• UOIT already has Pathways articulation agreements with half of Ontario’s colleges.
• 30 per cent of UOIT students have transferred in from another college or university through a formal diploma-to-degree program.

Link to Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities news release (January 16, 2014)