We pushed ski universities in the United States and Japan a few months ago, and the comment section was highly praised and strongly asked to understand Canada.
So I started to collect relevant information. If you don’t check, you won’t know. If you check, you will be shocked.
in one sentence: is next to the top ski resort. readers are all very smart. Canada is a perfect country for studying and skiing abroad!
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University of British Columbia (UBC)
University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia (UBC)The world's top 50 is a top university in Canada. The school has trained 8 Nobel Prize winners and 3 Canadian Prime Ministers, including Canada's first female prime minister and current Prime Minister Trudeau .
University campus is surrounded by forests on three sides and sea on all sides
British Columbia University is located in Vancouver . How beautiful is Vancouver? A city gathers mountains, sea views and skyscrapers. You can go out to sea to fish for salmon in the morning, find whales and , and go to the snow-capped mountains in the afternoon to ski.
Vancouver City View
There are large and small ski resorts around Vancouver, and it only takes 2 hours to go to the world's top ski resort Whistler . There are three other snow-capped mountains in the Vancouver area (Grouse, Cypress, Seymour) closer and more affordable than Whistler.
When looking north from the window, you see those distant snow-capped peaks, those vaguely above the city? There are countless snow trails hidden there, and the famous night skiing, sprints down to with the night view of Vancouver.
"Vancouver Peak" Grouse Mountain Snow Night Skiing
School students often go skiing on weekends.
find a few friends, rent a car, and buy a student season ticket, which is about 600 US dollars, and you can ski unlimitedly for
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UBC's Ski Broad Club was established in 1974, and has a history of nearly 50 years . Joining a club can not only participate in various group activities and ski training, but also offer snow tickets, rental discounts, etc.
UBC Skiing Club Group Activities
There are also very professional competitive skiing teams in the university. The team members compete on the American University Skiing Association (USCSA) Tour, and the competition events include slalom and giant slalom.
UBC Thunderbirds Alpine Ski Team
This university has another campus, Okanagan, which is also close to the ski resort. The school cooperates directly with the ski resort to provide students with cheap ski tickets. A student day was also set up, which will arrange buses to pick up and drop off students from the campus to the ski resort.
Silverstar ski resort, which is jointly developed by the school,
2 McGill University
McGill University
This prestigious university has long been in the top 50 in the world and is a top university in Canada. The school of was founded in 1821 and has a long tradition of ice and snow sports. started ice hockey games as early as the 19th century. McGill Ice Hockey Club is the world's first official ice hockey team.
McGill Hockey Club
McGill University’s ice and snow sports are very strong, how strong is it? Win the Olympic gold medal. The school's students are frequent visitors to the Olympics list. Jennifer Heil, a business student at McGill University, won 1 gold medal in the skiing event at the 2006 Turin Winter Games, and a silver medal in the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Jennifer Heil
McGill University Skiing Club has a history of 35 years and is one of the largest ski clubs on the east coast of North America. With its huge membership system, they provide members with transportation and discount cable car tickets to the local mountains during the snow season, as well as various activities.
What students feel about ski clubs -
A: "It replaced sleeping in on Saturdays, but got up for what I like!"
B: "Take a nap after skiing... the best sleep I have ever had!"
C: "Sick veneer friends want a glass of wine!"
Members of McGill University Ski Club
McGill University is located in the center of Montreal in , Quebec. It is the largest English-French bilingual city in the world , located at the intersection of Ottawa River and St. Lawrence River , The McGill Central Campus is built on a mountain and is close to the city's commercial center, with a very beautiful view.
McGill University in autumn
McGill University in winter
3 University of Calgary
University of Calgary
University of Calgary
This university conveys a strong sense of skiing from the school name, Calgary is a "blessed land" for Chinese skiers . Gu Ailing won the double championship in Calgary in the World Cup, breaking through history. Cai Xuetong won the World Cup in the U-shaped venue and ranked first in the world in total points. In 2022, Gu Ailing won the U-shaped venue championship at Calgary Station again.
Chinese players in Calgary competition
Calgary city is the fourth largest city in Canada. Located in the south of Rocky Mountains, it is only an hour's drive from the world-famous Banff National Park. It has abundant oil resources and has been rated as one of the richest cities in the world with the highest standard of living for more than 5 years. There are also mountains, roads, lakes, pine forests, and grizzly bears here.
The University of Calgary was founded in 1945. In just over 50 years, the University of Calgary has rapidly developed into one of the most important research universities in Canada.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary provides rich outdoor courses in winter, cross-country skiing , top experience powder skiing, and avalanche skills training , or take a cottage skiing tour. Everyone goes to Canadian Rockies best outdoor skiing spots for a single-day or multi-day tour. From beginners to advanced skill levels.
University of Calgary Winter Course
4 University of Alberta
University of Alberta
University of Alberta is not far from the University of Calgary we introduced above, and they are all in the same province - the Rocky Mountains and the snowy areas are everywhere Alberta . The city where the school is located and Harbin in China are friendly cities. Its latitude is higher than that in Harbin and is colder and longer in winter. It started snowing here in mid-October and continued until April of the following year. There is more than half a year of snow season in a year !
University of Alberta
University of Alberta is a high-quality university in Canada. It was founded in 1908 and has three Nobel Prize winners.
Students who are interested in computers knock on the blackboard! The University of Alberta is a 5 computer-powered university, especially the artificial intelligence major , which is the leading global leader in reinforcement learning. Rich Sutton, the father of reinforcement learning, and David Silver and Aja Huang, the lead authors of Alpha Go, are both from the University of Alberta. Learning computers here is a good choice.
University of Alberta
How much do students here love skiing? Ski club UASSC is the largest student club at the University of Alberta. Founded in 1962, it has two simple goals; helps college students with empty pockets up the hill and makes sure they have fun .
coach has a very high skiing level and is also a good player in leisure and enjoyment. During the non-snow season, the ski team will train outdoors at 5 p.m. Monday and Wednesday. The coach leads strength, reaction, balance and endurance training . After the snow season comes, the ski team will start professional ski training. At the beginning, it was technical free skiing, and slowly regained the feeling, and then soon entered some violent alpine skiing training. After went down the mountain, everyone was holding chicken wings and beer.
Beer after dry season training
University of Alberta ski club activities
Canada has a high latitude, long winters, and abundant high-quality ski resorts. There are also snowstorms around Canada's famous universities. This is a good place to complete your studies + play with snow crazy~
If you start your life again, I will go to Canada to study for a university!
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