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NWP is actively listening to community and industry needs, and responding with programs that work.
Be the positive change-maker in rural, northern, and Indigenous communities by supporting individuals and families through compassionate care.
Assess your future with a qualification that provides basic emergency care to patients in crisis. Use these skills to ladder into other rewarding healthcare professions.
Position yourself at the front of the class with NWP’s newest degree. Nurture impactful connections as you gain valuable field experience.
Focus on English, psychology, communications and more with a diploma that leads to an impactful career or ladders into a specialist degree.
Generate a career that powers up your future. Gain the skills needed to supervise, operate and maintain industrial equipment that produces power in a safe and efficient environment.
NWP and the University of Alberta are teaming up to provide aspiring physicians with undergraduate medical education opportunities focused on rural communities.
Future Students
Fuel your curiosity for creativity, information processing, robotics and the scientific method. From passionate musicians and artists to researchers and technophiles, our faculty will provide you with the expertise to invent an exciting career.
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Whether you’re building a business career, refining your skills, or forging toward teaching and academia, you will benefit from connections to professionals and instructors with real-world experience. Accelerate your success in the learning space, board room or marketplace, starting at NWP.
Channel your energy toward a satisfying career in healthcare, wellness and fitness. With the benefit of expert instruction and an unmatched learning environment, you will become an impactful difference-maker.
Light your spark and construct a future as an apprentice or certified tradesperson. Our hands-on approach to learning, delivered by industry-trained professionals, develop leaders with the skill and will to achieve.
Featured Programs
There are a multitude of rewarding pathways that start at NWP. With practical connections at every step, we are confident that you will find a program that works for you.
University Transfer, Engineering
Be the architect of your future. Study engineering disciplines, mechanics, wave motion, algebra, friction and ethics as you become a problem solver for life.
Be the architect of your future. Study engineering disciplines, mechanics, wave motion, algebra, friction and ethics as you become a problem solver for life.
Office Professional Certificate
Set yourself apart with organization and efficiency. From bookkeeping to the latest office technology, learn how to excel in a dynamic office environment.
Set yourself apart with organization and efficiency. From bookkeeping to the latest office technology, learn how to excel in a dynamic office environment.
Veterinary Technology Diploma
Harness your energy for a career in animal health. Train on our working farm and learn to treat and diagnose livestock and domestic animals.
Harness your energy for a career in animal health. Train on our working farm and learn to treat and diagnose livestock and domestic animals.
Office Management Diploma
Excel as an administrator with essential computer and communication skills. Master critical thinking and problem-solving to elevate your office environment expertise.
Excel as an administrator with essential computer and communication skills. Master critical thinking and problem-solving to elevate your office environment expertise.
Skilled Trades and Apprenticeships
Crank up your career in one of our distinctive skilled trades pathways and benefit from hands-on learning delivered by industry-trained professionals.
Crank up your career in one of our distinctive skilled trades pathways and benefit from hands-on learning delivered by industry-trained professionals.
NWP Degrees
Complete all four years of study without leaving the region. Pursue your passion while surrounded by northwestern Alberta’s beauty, energy and infinite potential.
Complete all four years of study without leaving the region. Pursue your passion while surrounded by northwestern Alberta’s beauty, energy and infinite potential.
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Our Vision, Mission & Values
Innovative: We are innovative in how we identify, develop, and deliver quality programming and services.
Responsive: We are flexible and adaptable to our students, partners, and communities through accountability, integrity, and transparency.
Connected: We encourage inclusivity and are connected to our students, staff, partners, and communities.