A new agreement between St. Lawrence College and Queen’s University will allow the college’s civil engineering technology graduates with an advanced diploma to pursue a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering at the university.

“We are grateful for this partnership with Queen’s University as it provides yet another important way for our students and graduates to continue on with their educational goals,” Glenn Vollebregt, St. Lawrence president and CEO, said in a news release on Tuesday. “This formalized pathway provides recognition of SLC credits earned and offers exceptional opportunities for students to further their education.”

“Queen’s engineering has long benefited through an informal but very tangible relationship with St. Lawrence, seeing some of their graduates leverage their experience at St. Lawrence to find a home in our civil engineering program,” Kevin Deluzio, dean of Queen’s University engineering, said. “This more formal relationship will make it even easier and more efficient for SLC students to see their hard work and talent recognized, and to increase the options that St. Lawrence’s excellent civil engineering technology diploma opens up to them.”

While the agreement formalizes the partnership, SLC’s civil engineering technology graduates have been continuing their civil engineering education for many years at Queen’s, according to Eileen De Courcy, SLC’s senior vice-president, academic.

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