Schools Offering Courses

The BC Council of Garden Clubs is proud to support scholarships and bursaries at the following academic institutions.
All scholarships are awarded through the financial aid offices of the institutions listed below.
Please contact the institutions directly for further details.

Camosun College

Camosun College offers a horticulture technician certificate with instruction held on the campus of Royal Roads University in Victoria
Camosun College Horticulture Technician

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

The School of Horticulture is located on the Langley campus and offers both a diploma in horticultural technology and a bachelor of horticulture science.
KPU School of Horticulture

The KPU Farm School is located near the KPU Richmond campus and offers an eight-month farmer training program.
KPU Farm School

Okanagan College

The Hall School of Business and Entrepreneurship offers a certificate in viticulture at the Penticton campus. The viticulture program provides individuals with the skills and knowledge to manage a vineyard or seek employment in viticulture.
Okanagan College Viticulture Certificate

Pacific Horticulture College

The Pacific Horticulture College offers landscape certificate in horticulture and is located at the Gardens at the Horticultural Centre of the Pacific in Victoria.
PHC Landscape Horticulture

Simon Fraser University

Admissions to the master of pest management program at SFU in Burnaby have been temporarily paused.
For details, please see: SFU Master of Pest Management

Thompson Rivers University

The School of Trades and Technology offers a horticulture apprenticeship program and a horticulture management program at TRU in Kamloops.
TRU Horticulture

UBC Botanical Garden

The horticultural training program is an eight-month full-time course at the UBC campus in Vancouver. Students graduate with a horticultural technician certificate.
UBC Horticultural Training

UBC Horticultural Bursary

The School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture in Vancouver offers a master of landscape architecture degree.
School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture

UBC Rose Bancroft Horticulture Scholarship

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems in Vancouver offers an undergraduate degree specializing in horticulture. UBC
Faculty of Land and Food Systems

University of Northern BC

The University of Northern BC offers a bachelor of science in forest ecology and management in the School of Forestry Ecology and Management at the Prince George campus.
UNBC Forest Ecology and Management

University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley offers bachelor of agricultural science with a horticulture major at the Abbotsford and Chilliwack campuses.
UFV Agricultural Science