Selkirk College

Selkirk College
MottoBest of all, inquire
TypePublic
Established1966
AffiliationsCICan
Endowment$34,891,007
PresidentMaggie Matear
Students1,318 FTE (2024-25 FTE)
Location
West Kootenay and Boundary regions in British Columbia: Castlegar, Nelson (3 campuses), Trail, Grand Forks
Colours   Blue Spruce & Tree Green
Websitewww.selkirk.ca
Castlegar Campus courtyard

Selkirk College is a public college founded in 1966 with its main campus in Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada. The college has student housing at its Castlegar and Nelson campuses. Selkirk College's strengths include hands-on education, learning with the land, building connections, transfer pathways, and cultivating sustainability. The college has close to 60 certificate, diploma, and degree programs. Notable programs include Rural Pre-Medicine, Ski Resort Operations & Management, Contemporary Music & Technology, Digital Fabrication & Design, Nursing, Pharmacy Technician, and the School of Environment & Geomatics.

Campuses

Selkirk College has six campuses and learning centres across the West Kootenay and Kootenay Boundary regions:

Programs

Selkirk currently has 1,239 students in eight locations and offers a variety of academic, career, vocational and technical programs. Programs are offered part-time, full-time and online through the following schools of study:

Student life

Local arts, culture and heritage

Students of Selkirk College have access to a variety of local arts, culture and heritage facilities within the municipalities of Castlegar, Grand Forks, Kaslo, Nelson, Rossland and Trail. Museums and galleries include the Doukhobor Discovery Centre, Kootenay Gallery, Langham Cultural Centre, Oxygen Art Centre, Quoynary Canada Rossland Art Gallery, Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre, Touchstones Museum, and VISAC Gallery.

On campus recreation

Student housing

Selkirk College currently has two student housing buildings that can collectively house 209 students. Student housing at the Castlegar Campus offers 100 beds and Nelson's Tenth Street Campus offers 109 beds. A new student housing development has been confirmed to commence in 2022. A new building at the Castlegar Campus will provide 112 new beds, and 36 beds will be offered in a new building on the Silver King Campus in Nelson.

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. ↑ "SELKIRK COLLEGE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS" (PDF). Government of British Columbia. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
  2. ↑ "2024_25_Student_Full_Time_Equivalent_Enrolments_at BC_Public_Post_Secondary_Institutions". BC Government. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  3. ↑ Training, Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills. "Find an Institution - Province of British Columbia". www2.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved August 20, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Full-Time Equivalent Enrolments at B.C. Public Post-Secondary Institutions". Government of British Columbia. 2023. Retrieved September 9, 2023.
  5. ↑ Selkirk College list of programs
  6. ↑ "Province Announces $24 Million for Selkirk College Student Housing". October 13, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Self-styled and self-titled". Calgary Herald. Postmedia. December 30, 2008. Archived from the original on August 18, 2014. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  8. ↑ Kiesza. "Kiesza". selkirk.ca. Selkir College. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  9. ↑ Mitch Merrett. "Mitch Merrett". selkirk.ca. Selkirk College. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
  10. ↑ Will Johnson (October 26, 2015). "Roz Nay sells psychological thriller: Nelson writer will publish Our Little Secret with Simon and Schuster". Nelson Star. Retrieved July 8, 2020. Three years ago Nelson writer Roz Nay signed up for a Selkirk College writing class—she felt like she needed a hobby to sustain her through the winter—and ended up writing a 2,000-word story called "Your Wife is a Psycho". Last month she sold the novel-length version of that story, Our Little Secret, to Simon & Schuster.