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and Trade Certification Commission in
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TRU degree
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on particular skill sets. Royal Roads Uni-
versity offers graduate certificates in key
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Students can use some of the certificates
as credit toward the completion of the
school's
MBA, or they can just select the
ones they want most à la carte.
Zoe MacLeod is Royal Roads' director
of professional and continuing studies.
She says many in the certificate programs
already have undergraduate or graduate
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petencies and skill gaps."
Some prospective students may want
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try. New York–headquartered Brain-
Station is known as a coding bootcamp,
but it offers diplomas, certificates and
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ing and data analytics, to name a few. For
B.C. residents, the school offers courses
online and in-person at a downtown Van-
couver campus.
Kyle Treleaven went to one of Brain-
Station's first information sessions when
it opened in Vancouver in 2015. He was
looking at taking a user experience (UX)
design class while BrainStation was seek-
ing someone to build its team in the city.
Both found a match with each other.
Treleaven finished his UX program in
August 2015—a month after he became
the company's Vancouver campus gen-
eral manager. He added a vice-president
title last summer.
Treleaven loves BrainStation's demo
days, where students show off their work.
"It's a validation that the entire team here
is setting people up for success," he says
proudly.
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