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Capilano University
Category: Education Colleges & Universities Colleges & Universities [Edit]
2055 Purcell WayNorth Vancouver, BC V7J 3H5
(604) 986-1911
- Hours:
Mon-Thu 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Fri 8:30 am - 4 pm
3 reviews for Capilano University
3 reviews in English
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Review from Murdoch B.
Ottawa, ON
4/24/2010
I took four courses at Cap. I've experienced worse, but this wasn't great. On the plus side, the courses are cheaper than anywhere else I've gone to school. On the downside, you basically get what you pay for. My profs were nice--one was really a lot of fun--but they were not good teachers, and one was perpetually late for class and lacked professionalism.
Also, parking isn't great and they nickel and dime you for everything. Sure the course is cheap, but you want a student card? That'll cost you. Photocopies or computer print outs? Well you have to buy a student card to get them or else buy a $2 copy card. And their UPass fee is $138!! Oh, and during the Olympics they pretty well just shut everything down for 2 weeks. Hello? It's one thing to cancel classes to help the Olympics out with their traffic issues, but we're not paying you to go on holidays for two weeks. Some of us still needed services! -
Review from Alex K.
Vancouver, BC
5/4/2012
I really wish I had done more preliminary research before applying to Capilano University. After reading the other comments here on Yelp, I can definitely verify that they are still suffering from the very same shortcomings years later. I had applied to the WLP program for 2012 and was subsequently interviewed and accepted. I paid my deposit then everything went downhill, quickly. Program administrators I had ongoing correspondence with abruptly stopped replying to my e-mails. I was told after I mailed them a $500 deposit they would mail me the course registration forms. I imminently mailed them the $500 and waited the month they said was required for mailing of the registration forms. I never received the forms and contacted the program administrators communicating this, they never responded. After a month of not hearing anything from course admins that I previously had communication (albeit lackluster at best) with prior to mailing them $500 I became suspicious and begun doing further research on the school. I found that they were notorious for delivering a post secondary experience that left a lot to be desired. After I came in contact with former students of my program who advised me not to take the course I decided I had had enough with the "university." Of course I hadn't heard back from the program administrator in 5 weeks at this point so I e-mailed the course instructor saying thank you for the opportunity but at this point I'd very much appreciate my deposit back and to withdraw myself from the program. Two weeks went by and I hadn't received a response from the instructor let alone the administrator from 5 weeks ago and at this point I had lost hope of ever seeing the course registration forms, so I decided to write an e-mail to the higher ups which I felt would at the very least garner a response. The very next morning I was told while my claims of poor administration didn't possess any validity but I could have my money back. So it seems like poor admin is an ongoing issue at this school and I am another one of the many to suffer because of it. I'm not sure why Capilano refuses to acknowledge their horrific administration, but I know that as long as they refuse to acknowledge their shortcomings, they are refusing to fix their shortcomings, and until they do, this school is certainly not worth your valuable money and definitely not worth your invaluable time.
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Review from Richelle O.
Vancouver, BC
2/16/2011 1 photo
There are a few great teachers, which I will gladly provide names for if asked. However, the administration and advising are just horrid. I was given wrong information (way off the Richter scale wrong) numerous times. I've been passed around through different hands, sometimes waiting weeks to get a simple answer. Sometimes in the middle of an email conversation, the advisor would just drop off Earth. I've been given advice that has wasted courses, lost me money, and valuable time. This school isn't professional and although I was always wanting to transfer to UBC, this really quickened the decision process for me.
Specialties
Areas of Study
Arts & Sciences:
Business & Professional Studies:
Fine & Applied Arts;
Health & Education;
Preparatory Studies.
History
Established in 1968
Capilano was founded by the school boards and residents of North Vancouver, West Vancouver and Howe Sound through referendum in 1968. Classes that first year were held in a small building on the grounds of West Vancouver Secondary School.
Initial enrolment that first year was 784 students. Today, Capilano has blossomed into a publicly-funded learning institution that serves 7,000 credit and 7,000 non-credit students annually. It has approximately 785 employees.
In 1973, Capilano opened its permanent 13.76 hectare (34-acre) campus in the Lynnmour area of North Vancouver. That same year, it also established a regional centre in Squamish to serve the Howe Sound communities of Squamish, Whistler, Mount Currie and Pemberton. In 1977, Capilano opened the Sunshine Coast campus in Sechelt to serve the communities of the Sunshine Coast.
In 2008, the provincial government changed Capilano College's designation to Capilano University.
