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Western Community College provides access to higher education opportunities that enable students to develop knowledge and skills necessary to achieve their professional goals, improve the productivity of their organizations and provide leadership for the ultimate benefit of the community.

Academic Goals

• To offer a wide range of competency-based, outcome focused, and market driven programs that meet the needs of its students, faculty, graduates, and community

• To focus on providing graduates with a comprehensive knowledge base, the practical training required to successfully apply theory to practice, and a desire to offer a higher standard of community driven post-secondary education

• To produce self-reliant highly skilled and knowledgeable life-long learners, ready to meet career challenges and to bridge the gap between the evolving needs of employers, the community, and the province

• To provide a teaching experience committed to applying learning methodologies that promote constructive inquiry, critical thinking, analysis, application, problem solving, collaboration, and reflective practice enabling graduates to generate opportunities and solutions that address evolving 21st century challenges

• To provide a learning experience committed to offering a problem-based learning environment that supports and enhances students’ personal, intellectual, academic, and social development while being designed to ensure students are literate across a broad range of topics

• To broaden a students’ understanding of the impact a post-secondary education will have on them, society, culture, and their environment, and conversely, how society, culture, and environment are driving the changing nature of and the demands on post-secondary education and the teaching-learning experience

• We believe that all who wish and are committed to seeking a quality post-secondary education should be able to, and at a reasonable cost

Why Choose WCC?

• History: Western Community College has been serving the Vancouver community since 2012.

• Many Program Options: Western Community College has proven to be a catalyst in bringing success and satisfaction into the lives of many students, who are pursuing and furthering their careers in the fields of Health Care, Medication Management, Accounting & Bookkeeping, Information Technology, and Business Management. At Western Community College, we are dedicated to a unique policy of providing individualized attention to each student, by consistently managing an appropriate instructor to student ratio, and helping each student to develop a career plan that meets their objectives for their career development.  

• Career and Growth Opportunities: Our programs are thorough and intensive, and successful completion gives students the skills and credibility to compete for better positions, with more responsibility, opportunities for advancement, and greater earnings.  We offer both part-time and full-time program options for some programs.

• Pathway/Partner Transfers: Western Community College is among very few private colleges that's registered with . WCC has three partnerships that enable students at WCC to apply for academic credit transfer to the following schools - Yorkville Univeristy, Vancouver Community College, and Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT). More information is available .

• Partnership with Vancouver Community College: Students completing the Diploma in Hospitality Management program at Western Community College who achieve the required academic standing and meet The required criteria will be eligible for admission to Vancouver community college with full block Transfer in the bachelor of hospitality degree.

• Partnership with Yorkville University: Western Community College offers unique diploma and certificate programs in various professional fields, including Health Care, Business, Accounting, Pharmacy and IT. Their career-based programs prepare the graduates for the job market as well as for further education. We have partnered with Yorkville University to paves a pathway for the students who wish to pursue their career in Accounting field. The graduates of the Advanced Accounting Diploma program at Western Community College get transfer credits towards the BBA program at Yorkville University, BC Campus. Students completing the diploma program at WCC who achieve the required academic standing may enroll into the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) with one of the four specializations (Accounting, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Energy Management) program and receive advanced standing.