Your life is unique. Your education should be, too.
Get your degree or leave with a certificate or diploma. Study full or part time, during the day or in the evenings. Use existing credentials to shorten your study time. Start in September or January. Take courses in Spring and Summer terms. Find remote or hybrid courses.
Make your education fit your needs, no matter what they are.
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PROGRAMS
*including majors, 2024/25
Average program length: 4 YEARS
Earn a Bachelor’s degree in arts, commerce, nursing, science and more. Choose a major and minor—even across faculties—or specialize with an honours degree. Programs may include practicums or field placements.
Average program length: 2 to 3 YEARS
Launch your career sooner with a more focused approach to your program of choice. Diploma programs provide classroom and practical knowledge in your field of study without a secondary specialty or minor.
Average program length: 1 YEAR
Prepare for a specialized career in a certificate program without broader learning requirements. After graduating, you may have the option to use your certificate credits to earn a diploma in the same or a similar field.
SCHOOL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION
MacEwan’s School of Continuing Education helps you advance at any point in your career. English as an Additional Language courses strengthen your communication skills and prepare you for program, career or personal requirements. You can also build expertise through professional development and micro‐credentials. Whatever your path, we have options to support you.
Connect theory to practice
A majority of MacEwan programs have a work-integrated learning component.
100%
of Degree programs
87%
of Diploma programs
73%
of Certificate programs
Getting career‑ready requires more than lecture‑based learning. You can expect a well‑rounded education with opportunities for hands‑on learning directly in your field of study.
Being an international student with less experience in the Canadian market, co-ops were crucial in shaping and fast-tracking my career. I currently work in an oil and gas distribution company as a pricing and content lead.
– Manpreet Kaur
Bachelor of Commerce ’18
Work-integrated learning (WIL)
Combine your academic studies with real‑world applicatios and gain valuable experience in a workplace or practice setting. WIL opportunities may take place in classrooms, offices, labs, hospitals and more.
Internships
Gain workplace experience and academic credits in a supervised, structured environment.
Practicums
Learn under an experienced licensed professional to gain hands‑on skills for your certification.
Field placements
Gain skills in a short‑term placement in a real work environment relevant to your program.
Community-engaged learning
Build relationships, conduct research and solve real problems while working with community organizations here in Edmonton.
Co-operative education
Spend a term (or more) working in a paid placement in your field.
Earn While You Learn
Education abroad
With 40 university partners in 22 countries, Education Abroad can help you expand your academic, personal and professional experience through exchanges, internships and short‐term programs. Go for a summer, a term or a year—find a timeline and destination that work for you!
See the World
For some types of experiential learning, a co‑op work permit is required. Be sure to check your program requirements for experiential learning components.
Real research, real impact
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presentations on Student Research Day (2025)
Expand your understanding of key societal issues and find solutions to real problems.
MacEwan offers unique undergraduate research opportunities. You’ll work alongside your professors on research projects, and even pursue your own independently–an experience not offered at most undergrad universities.
The Office of Research Services can help you get started with your own research and apply for external awards and studentships, both provincial and federal. MacEwan’s Undergraduate Student Research Initiative (USRI) can also provide grants to support your research project.
Several of our faculty are featured each year in the Report on Scholarship, showcasing their latest projects or major findings. And our students are just as accomplished, winning awards for researching everything from the dark side of online communities to developing antibiotics for drug‑resistant bacteria species.
My biggest takeaway is how complex and important antimicrobial research is and how much more there is to discover. This project showed me how even small experiments can contribute to bigger conversations in science.
Sahiba Pahwa
Biology student and 2025 Student Research Day presenter
Sahiba Pahwa is researching ways to combat antibiotic resistance. She continued her work in a paid summer studentship through funding from Alberta Innovates.
Student research day
Students are invited to present at Student Research Day each year, where you’ll give an oral or poster presentation detailing your work. Whether you’re conducting scientific experiments, creating art or engaging in community‐based scholarship, you’ll be a trendsetter and trend breaker, pursuing new hypotheses and asking important questions. You can also publish your findings in the MacEwan University Student eJournal (MUSe)