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The province of Ontario has 24 publicly-funded community colleges[1]: 18 in Southern Ontario and 6 in Northern Ontario. There are two types of colleges in Ontario: Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology and Institutes of Technology and Advanced Learning. Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology offer Ontario College Diploma (OCD), Ontario College Advanced Diploma (OCAD), and a limited number of degree programs which are two years, three years, and four years in length. Some courses of study lead to official certifications in skilled trades that are regulated by professional associations. Institutes of Technology and Advanced Learning offer a limited number of degree programs, either in conjunction with a nearby university or on their own.
Most Ontario colleges were founded in the 1960s, after Ontario's Minister of Education, the Honourable William Grenville Davis, announced in 1965 a plan to create a post-secondary educational system different from that of universities. The first such college to be created was Centennial College in Scarborough, Ontario which was created in 1966. As of early 2000s, many Ontario colleges offer one or more bachelor programs in an applied area of study.
Colleges marked with (fr) are French language schools.
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