The Financial Aid team is here to provide you with support and resources over the course of your studies. From OSAP, Travel Awards and Bursaries we want to make your experience the best! Have questions? Have a look around! We’re sure you’ll find what you are looking for.
Visit our Financial Aid website for an overview of our support service. Below are financial support services specifically for those with a military connection.
Algonquin College Financial Aid & Awards
- The Financial Aid and Awards office can help you understand how to pay for your education through student loans, scholarships, bursaries, and other funding opportunities. Special consideration may be available for military members, Veterans, and their families studying at Algonquin College.
Veterans Affairs
- Career Transition Services: During your service, you developed skills and knowledge that can help you in a new career. The Career Transition Services Program can help you find a career that is best suited for you.
- Education and Training Benefit: The Education and Training Benefit helps you achieve your education and career goals. You may be eligible to receive up to $80,000 in funding. Whether you are furthering your education journey or just beginning a new one, this is the perfect place to start.
- Rehabilitation Services and Vocational Assistance Program: The purpose of rehabilitation services is to ensure that you improve your health to the fullest extent possible and adjust to life at home, in your community or at work.\
- Veterans Emergency Fund: The Veterans Emergency Fund (VEF) provides emergency financial support to Veterans, their families and survivors whose well-being is at risk due to an urgent and unexpected situation.
Additional Supports
The Pembroke Campus is committed to supporting all of our students in their post-secondary journey. We recognize that military life can bring pressures that do not exist for civilian students, and therefore our student services team works hard to provide additional supports to military members, veterans, and military spouses and dependents. Several members of our student services team are military partners, and our campus counsellor provides personal and career counselling that can include referrals to additional community resources. Learn more about our Counselling Services.
Canadian soldiers accumulate excellent skills over the course of their careers. As they transition to civilian life, many turn to post-secondary education. It’s possible that some retiring soldiers can earn college credits through a process called Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR).
At the Pembroke campus, we recognize prior military learning and experience as academic credit either automatically or via specific application. It depends on the extent to which the former military members prior training and experiences align with their chosen program of study.
For military members transitioning to civilian life and wanting to further their education, once you have enrolled in a program of study, please contact johnstl3@algonquincollege.com to identify courses for which you can apply for credit via PLAR.
Remembrance Day
November 11th is a very somber day on campus. A Remembrance Day service is always held involving students and staff. Current soldiers who are studying at the campus are invited to wear their uniforms and students who have military members in their family are encouraged to bring them to the service. Classes are suspended to allow students to attend the service.
Marcie Lane remembers the excruciating pain of losing her husband. Master Corporal Scott Vernelli was a career soldier committed to the cause of the Canadian Armed Forces to bring peace and stability to people worldwide, and he repeatedly volunteered for missions. In Afghanistan, he would lose his life only six months after he and Lane had welcomed their first child into the world. Learn more about Marcie Lane’s story.
Daniel Larente is looking for adventure, literally. The 43-year-old Algonquin College student has already packed a lot into his life, but now he is about to explore a new career pathway, one that is driven by his passion for the outdoors. Learn more about Daniel Larente’s story.
The Pembroke Campus hosts regular Canadian Armed Forces Days in partnership with organizations like Veteran’s Affairs, Military Family Resource Centres, Transition Centres and more. Current members, exiting soldiers, veterans, military spouses and their families are invited to come on campus and learn more about the programs and services that are available to them. This half-day Open House will include campus tours, presentations geared to the military community and a panel of current students who can share their academic journey as a former military member or military spouse.
- Attend presentations that are geared to a military audience
- Take a guided tour of the state-of-the-art Pembroke Campus
- Find out about the amazing College services that are here to support you
- Participate in a panel of current and former students who are connected to military life
- Get your questions answered about financial aid, counselling, admissions and more
- Apply to programs with support of the admissions staff
This event is perfect for:
- Military Veterans
- Exiting Member
- Serving Members
- Military Spouses
- Family of Military Members, including children and dependents
Click here to learn more about upcoming events
