Associate of Science - Biology

The Associate of Science - Biology at Selkirk College’s Castlegar campus is a 2 year associate's degree a two-year associate of science in biology built for university transfer.

Students complete first- and second-year biology, chemistry and mathematics with extensive lab and field opportunities — the surrounding Columbia Basin serves as a living laboratory — then transfer into third year at BC universities with the associate degree's admission advantages.

Selkirk College, founded in 1966 as British Columbia’s first regional community college, is a fully public institution in the province’s West Kootenay region. The 65-hectare forested Castlegar campus offers genuinely small classes, on-campus student housing, and some of the lowest combined tuition-and-living costs of any BC public college. University courses transfer to UBC, SFU, UVic and other BC universities through the province’s formal transfer system, and graduates working in the region can pursue the BC Provincial Nominee Program toward permanent residence.

This program is registered in the field of CIP 26.0101 (Biology/biological sciences, general) and is offered to international students under Canada’s post-November-2024 PGWP field-of-study rules; two-year programs support a Post-Graduation Work Permit of up to three years. Selkirk College maintains a live list of PGWP-eligible programs and seat availability changes by intake — verify this program on the official list and with IRCC before applying (final decisions rest with IRCC).