Douglas College

Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia was founded in 1970 and is best known as a university transfer route within the Vancouver metropolitan area. British Columbia operates a provincial transfer system allowing credits earned at a college to count toward a university degree. A student can begin at Douglas at college tuition rates and transfer to a British Columbia university to complete the degree. That route now carries an advantage beyond cost. A student who transfers and graduates with a university bachelor's degree faces no work permit field-of-study restriction. A student who stops at the college diploma does. So the transfer route is not only cheaper at the outset; it changes what the qualification eventually becomes. Which credits transfer, and how many, should be confirmed with the receiving university rather than assumed from the college's description.