North Island College (NIC) is a community college located primarily on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Starting as a distance educational institution in the 1970’s, NIC has grown to a comprehensive post-secondary institution with a range of academic and career-training programs from one-year certificates to four-year degrees and post-graduate studies. Within its 80,000 km² service area, NIC operates four campuses in the Comox Valley, Campbell River, Port Alberni, the Mix̱alakwila campus in Port Hardy and a regional learning centre in Ucluelet. NIC offers 120 credit programs and pathways and just under 900 individual courses. The majority of NIC’s offerings are one- and two-year certificate and diploma programs that provide learners with pathways to further education and employment in areas such as foundation trades and apprenticeships, resource trades, technology, engineering, culinary arts, health and human services, early childhood care and education, business, office administration, tourism, adventure guiding, digital design and development and fine arts. NIC also offers four-year applied degrees in business administration as well as a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in partnership with Vancouver Island University.
