Nipissing’s satellite Muskoka campus, based in Bracebridge, has been in operation since 1996. Developed with the purpose of increasing the educational options and opportunities for students living in Muskoka and the surrounding area, it currently boasts over 100 full-time and part-time students.

  The campus offers a Bachelor of Arts 3-year Liberal, and now offers two new specialized degrees – a Bachelor of Arts, Child and Family Studies and a Bachelor of Arts, Studies in Culture and the Arts. The courses offered cover a broad range of disciplines, including English, environmental sciences, history, child and family studies, cultural studies, geography and more.

  “The Muskoka campus has allowed students an opportunity to take a degree that they might otherwise not have had,” explains Jan Lucy, campus administrator. “We’ve graduated over 50 students since we opened, which is a good number considering it takes 3 to 4 years to get your degree,” continues Jan.

  Tiffany Morgan is one of these. “I probably would not have been able to attend University if it hadn’t been for Nipissing’s Muskoka campus”, she says. “The personal level is great, too,” Tiffany comments, referring to both the small class sizes, (which is also true of Nipissing University in general) and how approachable the professors are. Graduating last spring with her BA in Liberal Arts, she is now attending Nipissing’s main campus in North Bay, taking her one-year Bachelor of Education program.

  Many of the 2001 spring graduation class (Arts and Science) continued their studies in either a professional school (e.g Nipissing's own Faculty of Education -- Muskoka campus applicants are eligible for Nipissing University entrance scholarships and bursaries), or in graduate programs at other universities.

  Muskoka campus alumnus Deborah Norwood-Thomson was just recently accepted directly into a Master’s degree program, (at York U.) the first Muskoka grad to do so.

  According to a recent survey by the government of Ontario, Nipissing graduates are getting jobs. The university ranked first of 17 universities in Ontario, with a graduate employment rate of more than 98 percent within two years of graduation.

  The Muskoka campus has its own Nipissing University Student Union representative, and students have access to a number of support services, including career counseling, job search, academic skills programs, peer tutoring and individualized assistance for special needs students.

  Located in a joint facility with Georgian College, at 440 Ecclestone Drive, in Bracebridge, the muskoka campus has three classrooms, two offices, a student computer room and a student lunchroom. Contact: Jan Lucy, campus administrator, 705-645.2921 or visit the website at www.nipissingu.ca.