Education Alternatives in St. Catharines, ON

St. Catharines is home to Brock University, a modern comprehensive university located on the Niagara Escarpment, where you can study everything from Music to Business, learning how to get and use that Canadian SR ED tax credit. A partnership between the university and the Ontario Grape and Wine Industry established the city as a centre for cool-climate grape and wine research. "Brock" is the only university in Canada to offer an Honours Bachelor of Science in Oenology and Viticulture. It hosted the St. Catharines Wine Tasting of 2005, in which Canadian wines outscored the best French wines.

McMaster University's Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine is set to open a satellite campus in St. Catharines in 2007. The Hamilton, Ontario-based University will educate 15 first-year medical students in the city's first-ever med school.

Ridley College, located near the city's downtown core in the Western Hill neighbourhood, is a distinguished co-educational boarding and day school. It was established as a boys' school in 1889, and became co-educational in 1973.

A campus of the Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology is located near the city's east end. The school's Horticultural Campus was once located on 360 Niagara Street in the 1970s-1990s but has since been relocated to Niagara-on-the-Lake. One of its greatest teachers, R. Roy Forster, was recognized with the Order of Canada on April 14, 1999, for his work in creating the VanDusen Botanical Garden in British Columbia.

The District School Board of Niagara, responsible for managing a school system of nearly 119 faculties, contains 8 Secondary Schools in the city of St. Catharines.

The Niagara Catholic District School Board operates 3 Catholic Secondary Schools within the city.

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Sunday, February 05, 2012