Educational Facilities

Kingston is home to two world-class universities, one of the top colleges in Ontario and some of the best public and private shools in the country.

Post-Secondary

Queen´s University with over 15,000 full-time students is in the ivy-league of Canadian universities.  It is home to over 30 laboratories conducting R&D in the areas of fuel cells, alternative energies, robotics, cancer research, and biotechnology.  And its business school is one of the top-ranked in Canada.

The Royal Military College has been educating and training officer cadets and commissioned officers for careers in the Canadian armed forces for over 100 years.  This prestigious military university is rated 2nd amoung all smaller Canadian universities for reasearch.  With access to state-of-the-art technology, faculty and students are conduting research in fields such as space surveillance, environmental science and advanced engineering materials.

St. Lawrence College with 5,000 full-time and 6,500 part-time students offers more than 70 academic programs in applied arts, business, engineering technology, health sciences and skilled trades to feed local and regional business with well-trained talent.  The college enjoys a graduate employment rate of 91 percent.  For six consecutive years, it has ranked among the top four community colleges provincially.

The Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics provides basic, intermediate and advanced training to military personnel employed in the field of Communications and Electronics.  The School has been part of the Kingston community for 65 years, and employs approximately 220 military and civilian personnel.