To find yourself a globally-minded educational experience that feels just like home, you don’t have to venture far from Vancouver.
Established in 2007, Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Vancouver Campus reflects the vast multicultural diversity of the city itself through a rich mix of ethnicities, countries of origin, and cultural groups from all over the world, making the school a rich and vibrant learning and social environment for all students. Currently, the Vancouver Campus serves almost 1,000 international students.
Originally founded in the United States in 1942, Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) is the largest independent not-for-profit university in New Jersey, with two main campuses within the state — the Florham Campus in Morris County and the Metropolitan Campus in Bergen County. FDU’s British campus, Wroxton College, located in the heart of rural England and 70 miles from London, offers students a valuable opportunity to study abroad.
As the university’s fourth campus and first Canadian campus, FDU’s Vancouver Campus offers students in Vancouver a rare opportunity to earn an American university degree while studying in Canada.
A wide range of academic programs are offered through Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Vancouver Campus, including accredited professional undergraduate degree and graduate degree programs in academic concentrations such as:
- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration,
- Bachelor of Science in Information Technology,
- Bachelor of Arts in Individualized Studies (Hospitality and Tourism),
- Bachelor of Arts in Individualized Studies,
- Master of Administrative Science,
- Master of Science in Applied Computer Science,
- Master in Hospitality Management Studies
FDU’s close-knit campus community boasts a brand new state-of-the-art facility, small class sizes and individual instruction and mentorship between students, faculty, and staff. Focused on student success and wellbeing, FDU proudly recognizes the accomplishments of their students and alum, such as 2022 Vancouver Pinnacle Award recipient Anh Pham.
Anh Pham. Photo provided by Fairleigh Dickinson University
This year, Anh Pham joined the 2022 graduating class of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Vancouver Campus when receiving her B.S. in Information Technology.
Since beginning her studies at FDU’s Vancouver Campus as an international student from Hanoi, Vietnam, Pham has found confidence, independence, and growth through studying and practicing coding as a deaf person.
Today, Pham works as a software engineer for MasterCard. As a student at FDU, she completed an internship with Apple on its iOS Accessibility team, earned accolades in Apple’s Global Swift Student College through her work on the audiogram app for hearing accessibility, and launched programming groups like Code4Fun and SheCodes Vietnam to encourage more aspiring programmers to get involved.
"Like many other first-timers to Canada, I thought adapting to a new life here would be arduous, but FDU made it so easy and effortless,” says Pham. “As someone who used to hesitate to disclose her hearing accommodation needs, for fear of being a burden, I have since founded a club, become active in various communities and grabbed many opportunities from both within and outside FDU.”
“I’m deeply humbled by and thankful for my FDU experiences.”
The Vancouver Campus has introduced a new tuition rate for domestic students, making the institution one of the most affordable post secondary institutions for Canadian citizens and permanent residents in B.C. Starting in the Fall 2022 semester, this new framework applies to graduate and undergraduate degree programs offered at FDU.
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Vancouver Campus is located on 842 Cambie Street. Contact FDUV at fdu.edu for more information.
