Algoma University — Attraction in Brampton

CANADIAN STUDENTS AVOID THIS PLACE!!! As a Domestic Canadian Student, Transferring OUT of this "University" was one of the Best Decisions I've Ever Made!

I was at Algoma University Brampton from September 2021 to April 2022 in the BA Finance and Economics Program. I was under the believe that this institution was like any other university in Canada offering bachelor degrees and more to a mixture of Domestic and International students. That's the impression I got when researching the school and from the open house I got from Algoma University when they visited my high school back in 2019. I thought it would be a nice local university where I could get my degree with people from the same city as me before moving on with my career in Toronto. Boy was I wrong...

This "institution" because I can't call it a "University" when they only have 2 buildings, with one of them being a couple floors of a shared office building, is nothing more than a Glorified Indian Post Grad Money Laundering Scheme...

An actual "University" would not have 99.9% of the student body consisting of Indian post grads looking to snag a Canadian Certificate before they go back home for work. In my 8 months at this school I met 4 domestic students out of the 6 classes I took...

Now all the international students I met where great people, so nothing against them even if I did feel out of place being the only domestic student in many of my classes.

But my other real issue with this institution is that this is not and should not ever be marketed as a "University" that offers programs for domestic students. This is because my entire class experience as someone supposedly enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts was with Post Graduate students... that literally does not make sense and would never happen in any regular university. On what world would a first year Bachelor student be in every single class full to the brim with post grad students. The content that a post graduate student is studying is not the same level as a bachelor student. So why was this university marketing as if they were a regular domestic university offering Bachelor degrees.

As for the Profs and the Indian Post Grads that might be reading this that are attending this school. The profs were all for the most part decent for what this school could offer. The class sizes are small for a university (now that I can compare to an actual real Canadian University I've now been apart of for the last year) but I think that is a good thing if you are an Indian Post Grad looking to further your education here in Canada. You'll fit in here and probably enjoy the smaller classroom experience here compared to the Universities back home that I'm assuming are way larger.

I do have to give a special shout out to this one Canadian Business Professor who was an ex-Ryerson University Prof. He sat me down privately after class one day and warned me about staying with this school early on in his class when I was the only domestic student in his class. He really made me give a real think about if staying at this school would be worth it for me. And I realized partly through talking to him that transferring away from this school to another "real" domestic university was the right decision for me. Looking back on that decision and where I am a year and half later with my scholarly career... I couldn't of been more right! I'm so happy not being at this...

Avoid This University, Especially If You're an International Student

I completed my one-year graduate program at this university, and I want to share my experience, particularly for international students considering enrollment here. Unfortunately, my time at this institution was filled with challenges and frustrations that made the entire experience feel like a nightmare.

1.)Lack of Guidance: One of the biggest issues was the complete lack of guidance regarding course registration. The university provided the course schedule, but when I discovered that two of my courses overlapped, instead of offering a solution, I was told to withdraw from one and take it the following semester—at an additional cost of $2500. The course schedule was never my responsibility to make, so it was unfair to expect me to bear the financial burden of their mistake.

2.) Unexpected Fees: Before starting my second semester, I was informed that I needed to pay an additional $1100 to receive my completion letter. As an international student, I had already paid my full fees for the program (including two semesters), so this unexpected demand was frustrating and lacked any clear explanation.

3.)Unhelpful Student Center: The so-called "Student Center" is supposed to help students, but it felt like a waste of time. On multiple occasions, when I went there for assistance, I was simply handed barcodes with instructions to do everything online. Why even have a physical student center if everything is handled digitally? It’s incredibly frustrating to repeatedly be told to email or scan documents when I just needed real help and guidance.

To the staff at the student center: If you're there to help, please actually assist students instead of just directing them to online forms. It's disheartening to feel like no one truly cares about resolving the issues students face.

In Conclusion: My experience here as an international student was filled with unnecessary stress and lack of support. If you're considering this university, I strongly recommend you reconsider, as it feels like a trap for international students. There are many better options out there where students are actually treated with respect and provided...

Not a good place to take up your courses, only has a handful of capable professors. There's rarely any management or faculty available on-site, even for a bit to get done, you have to email the staff located in Sault St. Marie campus who take ages to respond. The campus is divided into different buildings because they could only rent few floors on each building, and this too is way small even for a college. They are baiting international students in the name of university that has way inferior infrastructure and faculty than any other college in the GTA. Almost everyone is Indian (nothing against) including the professors who still have their Indian approach of teaching, but the problem is not to mention they don't hesitate to speak Punjabi while other minority students look on since they have no clue what the conversation is about, anyways, it's Brampton, so don't expect anything less. $40,000 for Project Management is another big scam the students are knowingly getting trapped into with the intent they may find part-time work in the GTA. Don't let your educational consultant misguide you, my advice is to go to an actual university if you are well qualified or spend way less and go to a reputed college but avoid Algoma...