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Thompson Rivers University

Written by  Piyush Bhartiya, MBA

Published on Fri, February 14, 2020 6:35 AM   Updated on Mon, February 17, 2020 6:05 AM   3 mins read

Thompson rivers university is a public teaching and research university. It is located in British Columbia, Canada, which is said to be its main location because of its main campus, KAMLOOPS being there. It derives its name from the two rivers north Thompson and south Thompson which meets in Kamloops.

The Thompson rivers university has one more campus in Williams lake alongside a distance education division known as TRU-Open learning. Talking about the campus of this institution, the area is very large, which is about 250 acres, with 40 acted of the garden in its main campus Kamloops. This campus provides residence to more than 880 students.

Thompson rivers university also has some regional centers in mile house, Clearwater, Barrier, Ashcroft, and Lillooet. Some famous amenities of them are

  1. 11 wolf pack teams
  2. 140 on-campus programs
  3. 500 online courses
  4. 60 open learning programs

As claimed by themselves. Some other facts and figures about them are

  1. 20,000+ students enrolled in online and on-campus programs.
  2. Average class size of 31 for academic courses.
  3. 1 million+ square feet of learning space.
  4. 1000+ residential space for students.
  5. 9,75,000 $ tri-school funding for research by students and faculty.
  6. 2.5million $ scholarship, bursaries and awards for student

The first-ever chancellor of the THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY was Nancy Greene Raine, and the first-ever official visit done to the university was done by the respected prime minister Paul Martin.

Under the Thompson rivers university’s graduation and vocational training programs, more than 33000 Canadian and around 15000 international candidates have graduated. Lorde cardinal, who is a well known Canadian actor, is also an alumnus of the Thompson rivers university alongside the famous Canadian novelist Steven Galloway and Kamar Burke, who is a retired professional basketball player. To be listing some working and studying opportunities in Thompson rivers university are

  • Options to work on and off-campus
  • Combined study and work programs
  • Credit transfer from recognized institutions overseas
  • International exchange programs
  • Scholarship programs
  • Global 

Most viewed subjects in India provided by Thompson rivers university are

  1. Business and management.
  2. Education and training.
  3. Travel and hospitality.
  4. Health and medicine
  5. MBA
  6. Applied and pure sciences

In its country, the ranking of Thompson rivers university is 42 while in the world rankings, it has a secure 1475 position. To be eligible for any of the courses, as an Indian, you need to qualify in IELTS or TOEFL, but the eligibility marks for courses differ.

If you are an international student, you might also think that you will feel out of place, but 16% of the total students of the Thompson rivers university are international numbering around 4500. The male/female ratio in the university is 1:1.2.

The yearly cost for hostel and meals is around 2.8 lakhs, but for student’s help, there are 500 scholarships provided In the Thompson rivers university. For research purposes, the university has 6 research centers and institutes. The sports area of the university is also one in which it excels, and the name of there sports team is “wolf pack. “

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Piyush Bhartiya

Author • MBA • 20 Years

Piyush values education and has studied from the top institutes of IIT Roorkee, IIM Bangalore, KTH Sweden and Tsinghua University in China. Post completing his MBA, he has worked with the world's # 1 consulting firm, The Boston Consulting Group and focused on building sales and marketing verticals for top MNCs and Indian business houses.

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