Education
The region is home to four universities: Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Laurentian University in Sudbury, Nipissing University in North Bay and Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie. Algoma, which was previously a federated school of Laurentian, became an independent university in 2008. Laurentian University also has a federated school with campuses in Hearst, Kapuskasing and Timmins, the francophone Université de Hearst.
The universities also have satellite campuses in some Southern Ontario cities that do not have their own universities. Lakehead has a campus in Orillia, Nipissing has one in Brantford, Laurentian offers programs on the campus of Georgian College in Barrie, and Algoma has a campus in Brampton.
The region also has six colleges: Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Sault College in Sault Ste. Marie, Northern College in Timmins, Canadore College in North Bay, and the anglophone Cambrian College and francophone Collège Boréal in Sudbury. Several of the colleges also have satellite campuses in smaller Northern Ontario communities.
A large distance education network, Contact North, also operates from Sudbury and Thunder Bay to provide educational services to small and remote Northern Ontario communities.
In the early 2000s, the provincial government announced funding for the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, which opened in 2005. This school, a joint faculty of Laurentian and Lakehead universities, has a special research focus on rural medicine. In 2011, Laurentian University was granted a charter to launch the Northern Ontario School of Architecture in Sudbury, and Lakehead University was granted approval to launch a law school in Thunder Bay. As with the Northern Ontario School Medicine, each will be the first school of its type ever established in the region, as well as the first new school of its type launched in Ontario since the 1960s.
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