Students from all over the world are converging in university campuses all over Canada. Each student has a unique story to tell yet similar experiences to share. They came as strangers to a new land to earn higher education and found a new sense of self, a more determined, more accomplished and more confident self. Read their stories and gain insights into what it’s like to study in Canada!
In the short two years that Akshey Kalra, an international student from India, joined Saint Mary’s University, he has made his presence felt from the catering department to the office of the Vice-President. Read More »
Andrew Fortune, a third year Geography and Environmental Studies student at the University of Victoria, had never heard about UVic’s co-op education program. Since seeing an advertisement on campus in his third year, he has spent two terms working as a co-op student in British Columbia and one working in New Delhi, India. Read More »
Chaitanya Manchanda has been hard of hearing since childhood, but he hasn’t been one to let his condition get in the way of learning. Now in the fourth and final year of an undergraduate degree in computer sciences at University of Windsor, Mr. Manchanda is appreciative for the opportunity at an education without barriers. Read More »
What do you call a student who helps raise over $40,000 for research, maintains above average marks in an intensive premedical program, serves as University of Windsor on-campus floor representative and wins a bursary award? Outstanding, but she goes by Chiamaka Odunukwe. Read More »
It was a simple solution but it took two second year engineering students (University of Windsor) to come up with it. One month into their work placement with a leading Canadian manufacturing company, twin brothers Luv and Kush Aggarwal discovered a solution that would save their company lots of time, resources and expenses. Read More »
After two years of job hunting, Madan Roy, a Mechanical Engineer from Bangladesh couldn’t grasp why the career he spent 18 years building wasn’t translating as bonafide professional experience to Canadian employers. One day, Madan’s friend and fellow engineer told him about the Master of Engineering program at the University of Windsor. Read More »
Meghna Kararia did her homework carefully when researching which MBA school to apply to. For the longest time she compared MBA schools from Australia, the U.K. and Canada before deciding on SOBEY MBA program at Saint Mary’s University. “What stood out to me about Saint Mary’s was the fact that the program is AACSB accredited and the location – the vibrant city of Halifax.” said Meghna. Read More »
Omar Patwari, an international student from Bangladesh, arrived at the University of Windsor campus carrying 60 KGs of luggage. His on-campus residence was only a short walk from where the taxi had dropped him off but even the smallest of distance can be impossible with four suitcases. Luckily, a man noticed Omar’s heavy load and offered to help him carry the luggage. “It turned out he was an engineering professor at the University,” said Omar. “He ended up being one of my professors.”Read More »
A good, well-rounded student in China, Shiny Zhang says she could predict the kinds of jobs she’d get in the future. Wanting to break out of that pattern, she chose instead to study abroad, knowing that by moving to a new country she would get to start from scratch. Read More »
Many prospective students presume that once they choose a university major it is difficult to change – not true in Canada. Case in point, Tirth Vaishnav from Mumbai, India, who was admitted to the Bachelor of Science in Animal Biology program at the University of Guelph. One semester (4 months) into the program, Tirth had a change of heart; he decided he wanted to study Wild Life Biology instead.Read More »