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Type | for-profit career college |
Established | 2009 |
Address | 626 Pender Street , , , Canada |
Owner | Eminata Group |
Website | vcad |
Visual College of Art and Design, or simply VCAD, is a for-profit career college in Vancouver, Canada owned by the Eminata Group. The college offers diploma programs in various aspects of fashion, graphic design, architecture design and technology, interior design, game design, and animation. It has no relation to the fine arts college Victoria College of Art, although the latter was also owned for 10 months by Eminata between November 2008 and September 2009 during which time it was branded as "Victoria College of Art and Design". [1]
VCAD is owned by the Eminata Group via Vancouver Career College (Burnaby) Inc. which does business as three different career colleges: Vancouver Career College, CDI College, and Visual College of Art and Design. [2] [3] Eminata established VCAD and began recruiting students in February 2009. It officially opened in April of that year in an office building on 1111 Melville Street in Vancouver. The college shared the building with University Canada West which at the time was also owned by Eminata. In September 2010 the VCAD campus relocated to its present site, the London Building on 626 Pender Street where it occupies several floors. [4] [5]
VCAD is certified by the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education, Skills & Training. It is also on the Ministry's registry of Education Quality Assurance (EQA) designated institutions. As of 2018, it offers 13 full-time PTIB-approved diploma programs in various aspects of fashion, graphic design, architecture design and technology, interior design, game design, web and app design, and animation. Three of the programs also offer work experience as part of the course: Architecture Design and Technology, Interior Design with Co-op, and Marketing and Merchandising for Fashion. [6]
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, formerly Sheridan College of Applied Arts and Technology, is a public polytechnic institute partnered with private Canadian College of Technology and Trades operating campuses across the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.
University Canada West (UCW) is a private, for-profit university in British Columbia, Canada. It was founded in 2005 by David F. Strong, the former president of the University of Victoria. UCW was purchased in 2008 by the Eminata Group and in 2014 sold to Global University Systems, its present owners. Based in downtown Vancouver, the university offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management. As of 2023, with nearly 14,000 international study permits, it is second only to Conestoga College for number of permits for post-secondary institutions in Canada.
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CDI College is a private, for-profit career college in Canada. It offers programs in the business, technology and health care fields. The college has 23 campus locations in five Canadian provinces: six in British Columbia, eight in Alberta, one in Manitoba, four in Ontario and five in Quebec. The school has been owned by the Eminata Group since 2007. A 2022 investigation by CBC reported that some recruiters for CDI College lied to applicants about program accreditation and the post-graduation hiring rates of its students.
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