Academic Partners

As a Microsoft Imagine Academy Program Member, we employ a global learning solution and high-caliber training programs for Microsoft technologies, to help students reach their potential, academically and in their careers. The program provides access to Microsoft software licenses, E-Learning opportunities, official Microsoft course materials, and recognized certifications. The program connects education with real-world applications, giving students the necessary IT skills success in post-secondary courses and in today’s technology-based job market.

Microsoft Imagine provides professional developer tools, software, and services to our faculty and students with low-cost subscription options from Microsoft, so they have access to the latest technologies and cloud services.

Microsoft Imagine software allows for students taking at least one credit course offered by a WCC member department to install the software on their personal devices for use in their coursework as well as their personal development projects. Special member licensing rights also allow a WCC department to install Microsoft Imagine software and services on our departmental lab machines for instruction and research.

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.

As an Indigenous centre for excellence, NVIT inspires learners to strengthen community.

The following four strategic directions are fundamental for NVIT to achieve its vision and mission. NVIT strives to achieve excellence in each of the identified directions. These foundational strategic directions will remain relevant for the foreseeable future, while providing the framework for annual planning across the institution. NVIT’s strategic directions are:

• Learner-Centred
• Academic Excellence
• Community Relevance
• Organizational Effectiveness

Students completing the Business Management Diploma program at Western Community College who achieve the required academic standing may enroll into the Administrative Studies Diploma at NVIT (Nicola Valley Institute Of Technology).

Glion Institute of Higher Education is a hotel management school situated in Glion sur Montreux, Switzerland offering an international learning experience in a top hospitality management school. We have partnered with Glion, so on completion of either: the Diploma in Hospitality Management program, Diploma in Business Management, or Diploma in Advanced Accounting at Western Community College students have the opportunity to continue their studies in the BBA in International Hospitality Business at Glion.

Fairleigh Dickinson University is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. The University strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical understandings necessary to participate, lead, and prosper in the global marketplace of ideas, commerce, and culture.

The University offers over 100 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including doctoral programs in pharmacy, nursing practice, clinical psychology and school psychology; and an AACSB-accredited business school. Degree programs are offered on two New Jersey campuses and at two FDU locations outside the U.S.: Wroxton College, in Oxfordshire in England, and the Vancouver Campus, in British Columbia, Canada.