Seeking Suggestions for Education Pathway for Canada's Permanent Residence

[StudiousTraveller]

Another online university here is Thompson Rivers (TRU) I've done one course at Athabasca (AU,) and doing my first course TRU now and they are formatted similarly.

Pros with TRU:
- they have cheaper courses than AU
- you can start anytime at TRU whereas at AU you can only start on 1st of a month provided you have registered by 10th of previous month
- they transferred 90 credits from my prior degree towards the new degree I'm working on (may not be helpful to you to have that many transfer if you need 50% in Canada but possibly you could cover some credits with prior education to save costs)
- they have a high international student population so they may have resources to help with immigration questions


Pros of AU
- many more courses to choose from
...however you can take AU courses with permission from TRU towards a TRU degree as long as you meet TRU residency requirement (which for my program is 15 credits). I am planning to take 3-4 courses with AU as part of my TRU degree because the AU courses are a prerequisite to an AU Grad certificate I want to do and they will also fulfill upper level requirements for TRU program.

All the best with your studies and hope your move to Canada is successful. We can't wait to welcome you! ??