Colleges & Universities
St. Clair College of Applied Arts & Technology-Thames Campus
The Chatham community is home to Thames Campus, the major delivery site for St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. From its Grand Avenue West campus and other satellite locations throughout the Municipality, St. Clair College seeks to meet the educational needs of students and the training needs of business and industry. A range of post-secondary, post-diploma, continuous learning and contract training programs and services are available in the areas of technology and trades, health, community services, adult education, applied arts, and business.
Customized training for business and industry and consulting in human resource development is also available. The Campus offers assistance with educational and career planning and is engaged in a number of college preparation activities, Campus for Kids and Thames Institute of the Arts initiatives.
St. Clair College also operates the James A. Burgess Skills Centre in Wallaceburg. The College is offering apprenticeship training in Industrial Millwright and dual credits for high school students under the School/College/Work initiative. E-learning is also operational in the centre, providing support for individuals to continue their education in university, college and high school courses.
In 2009, the enrolment at the Thames Campus of St. Clair College included 1,300 full-time students and 3,500 Continuing Education/Adult Training students.
In the fall of 2009, St. Clair College established a student residence in Chatham.
Corporate and Professional Development
St. Clair College's Corporate & Professional Training division provides customized, quality training relevant to a businesses' needs. They work to meet business objectives and encompass unique corporate cultures.
St. Clair's staff works hand in hand with each company that engages their services in order to develop programs that meet predetermined requirements ... regardless of company size.
The firm's input at the outset is a key component in ensuring that the training content and delivery are what you want and need for your organization.
The College's experienced program leaders provide a learning environment that meets your employees' needs, resulting in training that is effective and applicable.
St. Clair College of Applied Arts & Technology, Thames Campus
1001 Grand Avenue West, Chatham, Ontario N7M 5W4
Telephone: 519.354.9100
Email: info@stclaircollege.ca
James A. Burgess Skills Centre, Wallaceburg Campus
920 Elgin Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario N8A 3E1
Telephone: 519.627.8336
University of Guelph, Ridgetown Campus
University of Guelph, Ridgetown Campus is located in Ridgetown, ON. The campus delivers education, research and extension focused on agriculture and environmental management. The campus has 600 full-time students enrolled in degree, diploma or certificate programs and over 6,000 alumni.
University of Guelph, Ridgetown Campus
120 Main Street West, Ridgetown, Ontario N0P 2C0
Telephone: 519.674.1500/1.877.674.1610
Website: www.ridgetownc.uoguelph.ca
University of Windsor
The University of Windsor offers a very broad range of programs – its 16,000 full and part-time students are enrolled in some 150 bachelor, masters and doctoral degree programs.
There are nine co-operative education programs for 1,100 students in Business Administration, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Biology, Kinesiology, Operational Research, and Physics and High Technology.
Community and business partnerships have helped to establish research institutions at the University of Windsor that are unmatched in Canada. The university’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research is the world’s leading institution in large lakes research, attracting top students from around the world. And the University of Windsor Daimler/Chrysler Canada Research and Development Centre, with more than half a billion dollars invested by the company, is the largest teaching and research partnership in Canada.
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4
Telephone: 1.519.253.3000
Website: www.uwindsor.ca
Chatham-Kent is also located within commuting distances of the following post-secondary educational facilities:
• University of Western Ontario (London)
• Fanshawe College (London)
• University of Windsor (Windsor)
• St. Clair College (Windsor)
• Lambton College (Sarnia)
• University of Detroit (Detroit, Michigan)
• Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan)