Ocean Island Victoria Guide

This is where people go to train for careers like dental assistant, office manager, and legal secretary. Maybe you’ve heard their theme song? It’s really catchy. Like, catchy to the point where I want to bang my head against the wall.

First thing about Royal Roads: the campus is super-beatiful. They’ve filmed a bunch of the X-Men movies there, it serves as Prof. Xavier’s mansion. The curriculum veers more towards business than art: a lot of people go to Royal Roads to get their MBA. Their focus is business management, communications, leadership, tourism and hospitality, things [...]

Just a 10-minute bike ride from UVic, Camosun is many people’s half-way house between high school and university. Pros: It’s cheaper than UVIC, you can’t beat the great student-to-teacher ratio, and it’s got a nice juvenile atmosphere, so it’s perfect for slackers and focushounds alike, looking for education without the politics and high price tag [...]

People keep saying it’s one of the best universities in Canada, and it’s not too expensive either. With a decent campus, a nice students society, an obsession with feminism, organic food and sustainable everything, the vague counterculturalism of coffee-shop philosophers and mystic appeal of homeless vagabond professors, this place has defined Victoria youth forever. Some [...]