Athabasca University

Athabasca University is the leading distance-education and online university in Canada: Canada's Open University.

Athabasca University serves currently about 32,000 students per year, following a period of rapid growth which has seen student numbers double over a six-year period. Some 260,000 students have registered in its individualized courses and programmes since the University was created by the Government of Alberta in 1970.