Centennial College

Centennial College (also known as Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology) is one of the popular universities located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that awards diplomas and degrees. It is Ontario's first publicly sponsored college. With an aerospace center at Downsview Park in North York, its campuses are located on the east side of the city, particularly in Scarborough. Nearly 100 different ethnic and cultural groups are represented at the university, and there are 80 different languages spoken there. It has been regarded as a culturally diverse post-secondary institution. Centennial College’s acceptance rate stands at 67% with around 14,000+ overseas and exchange students. There are around 250+ degrees, diplomas and certificates offered to students with 100+ full-time courses and co-op programs. The five campuses that makeup Centennial are Progress, Ashtonbee, Morningside, Story Arts Center, and Eglinton. The college's primary campus is in Progress. The Progress Campus is the largest campus of the university and is home to the schools of business and hospitality, tourism, and culture, as well as a number of child studies and community service programs. 

When Ontario's public college system was first established in the 1960s, Centennial was the first institution to open its doors. On May 21, 1965, Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology was founded by the Hon. William Davis, Minister of Education. Twenty-four public colleges now make up the system, which now serves 200 localities across the province. In order to accommodate new programs and students, the university saw fast growth, prompting the construction of additional campuses in Toronto's east end. The Warden Woods Campus was abandoned and destroyed in the fall of 2004 to make way for a housing development. The majority of programs were transferred to the Centennial Science and Technology Centre, which opened its doors the same year and is currently Morningside Campus. 

Its primary research facilities are its aerospace innovation hub, and its Wearable, Interactive, and Mobile Technologies Access Centre in Healthcare (WIMTACH), which was founded in 2015 with the help of a $1.75 million federal grant. The Scarborough Career Planning Center, a center for adult education, was created at the university in 1992 by the Scarborough Board of Education and the college. The parties decided in 1994 to open the center there starting in the fall of that year.