George Brown College
George Brown College
George Brown is a college in the city of Toronto, the business and cultural centre of Canada. It’s no wonder that Toronto is inhabited by a large number of immigrants, as Canada on the whole is the country which encourages highly skilled workers to move to their country. Getting an excellent education in George Brown College can be your first step towards immigrating to Canada.
International students
International students need to meet certain requirements to be eligible to study in George Brown College. One of them is that a student should be eighteen years old or older. Another one is that they should have already obtained the high school diploma before applying for George Brown College undergraduate programs and the postgraduate international applicants need to complete the graduate level studies. Before coming to Canada, international students need to get a study permit, which allows to study in Canada officially.
International students who wish to study in George Brown College can first take the course of the English language which can be both full-time and part-time. The full-time program of English for Academic purposes costs a little bit more than $3200 and lasts for around three semesters, because the duration depends on the initial language level. International students who want to study Academic English in George Brown College pay around $3000 for the tuition, and approximately $100 for health insurance.
International students may study a number of programs in George Brown College on the post-secondary level including diploma, certificate, degree and advanced diploma programs.
For example, an international student can go for an Honours Bachelor of Brand Design, which lasts for four years with an additional term of co-op. Studying in this program of George Brown College you will learn how to establish strong relationships between brands, communicate and collaborate effectively, write influential texts and know various business strategies and techniques of brand promotion and advertisement.
Another Honours Bachelor is offered in the field of Digital Experience Design, which also lasts for eight semesters. In general, students there learn how to create such designs that will be convenient for users, but at the same time to fulfill all the goals of the clients. By learning human behavior, culture, business and a number of soft skills, correlation between human psychology and their behavior with their technical devices, students graduate to become digital experience designers, interaction designers, mobile, visual, web designers, user experience researchers and entrepreneurs. All the degree programs will cost an international student of George Brown College $18190 for an academic year, with additional payments for health insurance, public transport, books and some incidental fees.
If you are a postgraduate international student, who wants to study design in George Brown College, there is a program of game design which lasts for just a year. After graduation, students are awarded with the graduate certificate and can start to work as game designers, creative directors, project managers and producers. During the program of George Brown College, a student learns such courses as design documentation, theory of game design, and game design psychology among many others. By the end of this graduate program you will learn how to design educational, marketing, health and entertaining games and increase their commercial potential. During the program students have an opportunity to study one semester in Milan, where they will take such courses as narrative design, game management and game production, and then finish the studies back in Toronto. The graduates of this George Brown College program are expected to find a job in the game industry, as upon the completion of their studies they will have a portfolio on their hands, which will serve as a confirmation of their hard work and dedication. International students are to pay around $24000 for this program which can be paid in three parts.
Besides from the program enlisted above, George Brown College offers international students to earn certificates in Blockchain Development, Art and Design Foundation, Gemmology, Commercial Dance, Media Foundation, American Sign Language and Deaf Studies and Dental Assisting. The program in American Sign Language and Deaf Studies lasts for one academic year during which a student acquires the knowledge of sign language, learns how to help the deaf, through understanding their culture and problems. This program can serve as a preparation stage for the Honours Bachelors of the Sign language and English Interpreting, which can be studied in George Brown College or obtain a diploma in Douglas College within two years.
International students of George Brown can also earn the Advanced Diploma in Dental Technology, which lasts for three years. The program is devised for the ones who are interested in the Dental studies and don’t wish to interact with patients directly, but by constructing and manufacturing the necessary equipment for dental treatment. The state of the art technology and laborites allow students to acquire the skills of making dentures, crowns, implants and other dental appliances and become valuable assets to any dental company. The program is practice oriented, so the sixth semester will be dedicated mostly for gaining work experience. Before starting the program, you may first study pre-health sciences in George Brown College, which will prepare you for the advanced diploma program. During the one year preparatory course, you will gain more profound knowledge of biology, chemistry, math and other subjects to be fully prepared for more detailed and profound knowledge on the next stage of education. After completing the pre-health science, an international student can choose to continue their studies not only in the program of Dental Technology, but also Dental Hygiene, Denturism and Bachelor of Health Sciences.
The diploma and certificate programs of George Brown College will cost an international student around $22800 for three semesters and $15200 for two semesters, incidental fees of $2000 and public transportation fee of $1500 are to be paid in addition to the tuition fee.
Experiential learning
Students of George Brown College have a chance to find their perfect job place while studying as the administration of the George Brown College cares about the successful employment of its students, collaborating with a number of companies. There is also a special program of experiential learning, which means that students can gain experience in real and simulated workplaces, participate in research projects and apprenticeships, which is supposed to help them to understand what they lack and what they need in order to work in the desired field, and gain experience through practice.
As for simulated work spaces, George Brown College offers all the students of Health Sciences to hone their theoretical knowledge in the centres, which imitate hospital facilities such as operating room, high-fidelity suites, practice labs and even high and low fidelity mannequins. In the centre the students of George Brown College are offered to check their knowledge and perfect their skills, before giving medical help to real people.
George Brown College students also work in the chefs’ house, which encompasses a number of restaurants and spaces which are run entirely by students from culinary and hospitality faculties. This allows every student not only to apply their theoretical knowledge in hospitality and culinary arts in practice, but also develop important interpersonal and managerial skills.
George Brown College with the collaboration of Soulpepper Theatre created the Young Theatre, where students can freely stage performances, hold debates and discussions and other cultural and arts events. This allows students to manifest their views and creativity, which contributes to their development as true professionals in the sphere of arts.
If some programs include internships and work experience, they are to be paid additionally to the tuition fee. The cost for a work term may start from $450 to the cost of the full semester.
Accommodation
George Brown offers students to live in the hall of residence, which is called the George with five hundred students already residing there. The residence has a perfect location for the lovers of city centres: shops, cafes, restaurants and other places for entertainment are located within walking distance. The residence comprises suites, each of which is equipped with two private rooms with double size beds, wifi, a TV, a bathroom and a kitchen with a microwave and a big fridge. The cost for living in the residence is $10500 for an academic year, which sum can be split to two or three payments.
An international student can also choose to live with a host family, as a part of the Canadian homestay program. The family members can pick you up from the airport upon your arrival which needs extra-payment, about $120. If a student wishes to be served three meals a day, they will need to pay around $965 per month, a hundred less for two meals a day and the option of not having a meal, living with a host family, is not available at all.
An international student of George Brown College can also rent a flat, a private or semi-private room, a house in the city of Toronto, if they want, and this will cost them from $500 to $1200 for a month, which depends on various factors such as location, neighborhood, furnishing and type of the accommodation.
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