As a result of the College’s interdisciplinary and interdenominational emphasis, you will find that Regent students are as diverse as the personal, academic, and professional backgrounds they bring to their studies. The diversity of the Regent community is one of the top reasons why students choose to study with us.
Geography
Approximately 47% of the student body is Canadian, 28% American, and 25% from overseas. In the Fall 2011 term, our overseas students came from countries including Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Hong Kong, the People’s Republic of China, South Africa, Switzerland, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Zambia.
Denominations
Christians from over 30 denominations are represented at Regent. The largest groups include Anglican, Baptist, Presbyterian, Mennonite, Alliance, and Pentecostal. This provides a rich mix and gives you a valuable glimpse of the larger community of faith that makes up the Christian church.
Gender
At Regent, we have almost as many women as we have men studying to apply their faith to their vocation in life, whatever that vocation may be. The male/female ratio is 55% men to 45% women.
Age
People of all ages come to study at Regent. There are those coming straight out of undergraduate studies, those going back to school after some years in the workforce, those enhancing or shifting vocational direction in their mid-life, and those wanting to pursue studies after retiring from full-time work.
Enrollment by Program
On Campus or Distance Education
At a time when many schools are turning to distance education to deliver their degrees, we still believe in the value of face-to-face, on-campus education. However, we do offer distance education options for students who wish to supplement their on-campus studies with distance courses, or to jumpstart their degree before relocating to Vancouver.
Part-time or Full-time
At Regent, we define full-time students as those taking 9 credits or more per term. Based on this number, the majority of our students study part-time.
After Graduation
We find our graduates in a wide range of vocations, whether in marketplace settings, church or parachurch ministries, or the academy. While we have not been able to track all of our graduates, we do keep in touch with many of them, and they with us. The following, for example, is the vocational distribution of graduates from 2006 to 2010:
