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A Different Kind of University
Nowhere in Canada has the evolution of
post-secondary education been more dramatic than in Kamloops, BC. The last two
decades have seen a transition from community college to an innovative
university-college, and now to a full provincial university with a unique
mandate. Thompson Rivers University really is a different kind of university.
TRU is a unique combination of traditional degree programs, many allowing
diploma and certificate program graduates access through laddering, along with
flexible degree completion through distance education as the BC Centre for Open
Learning.
TRU History
What began in 1970 as a community college to
deliver career-technical and two-year academic university transfer programs
during the provinces' initial expansion of post-secondary education, Thompson
Rivers University is now British Columbia's newest university. |
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