Geographical Information Systems (GIS) courses

About Geographic Information Systems in Selkirk College

Flexible and adaptable, GIS can be used in a variety of different scenarios, to make evidence-based decisions, understand trends and analyze data, effectively communicate a message and visually tell a story.

GIS allows experts to map any type of spatial data so that it is interactive, complex and layered with valuable information. Be a specialist in demand in this field that touches a variety of industries from business to health care and environmental sciences. It can be used as a tool within almost every industry, including:

• Business like market driven banking, ultimate client service, asset management
• Engineering like transportation planning, disaster management, use of historical data, terrain analysis
• Urban, rural and community planning
• Climate research, flood damage estimation
• Wildlife conservation, natural resource planning, water management
• Resource development and land management
• News and Entertainment support, telecom and network services
• Government administration, taxation
• Health and medical research
• Law enforcement, accident analyisis

Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre

Our GIS courses are also complemented by our Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre (SGRC), giving you opportunities to use and understand GIS in current real-world situations. You’ll get essential training, individual access to an advanced workstation, and exposure to projects.

The Selkirk Geospatial Research Centre is located across the highway from the Castlegar Campus next to the West Kootenay Regional Airport. (166 Hughes Road, Castlegar, BC)

Excel in the classroom, labs, and wherever you go after school.

Professional Training & Hand-on Experience

Within our state-of-the-art facilities, you'll get powerful, progressive hands-on experience and classroom instruction in subjects like: 

• GIS applications and automation
• Remote sensing 
• Internet mapping
• Database development and management
• Customized application programming 
• Global positioning systems (GPS) 
• 3D visualizations
• Data management techniques
• Open source, open data, and related software applications 
• Drone data collection and utilization

Academic qualification equivalents

• Completion of All India or State Board HSC (XII): 55% or higher in relevant subjects.

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS:Must have an IELTS score of 6.0 with no band less than 6.0. 

  Post Graduate Diploma programs and a few other programs have a higher English Language Proficiency requirement (6.5 IELTS).

• TOEFL: TOEFL score of IBT 80 or better

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Selkirk College Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

• The payment of the semester must be made by the students before the first day of academic term.
• For payment methods cash, cheque, money order, bank draft, credit as well as debit cards are accepted
• The annual fees of courses vary with each other. Below mentioned is the estimated cost of living in Canada when enrolled at the institute: 

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