Photo: Harleyd613 · CC BY 4.0Ottawa is home to 8 colleges and universities
The University of Ottawa (41,503 students) and Carleton University (23,806 students) are inside Ottawa; the nearest university campus outside it is Université du Québec en Outaouais, 7.3 km away in Gatineau.
What stands out about college in Ottawa
Facts about the town and its distance to campus, with figures for each college.
Colleges and universities within 25 km of Ottawa
16 within 25 km: 6 universities, 1 other school, 9 colleges and cégeps.
And 4 smaller schools with 0 students in all.
What would you pay?
Tuition in Canada is set province by province, and by each institution within its province’s rules; fees for international students are higher and set apart. Statistics Canada publishes each province’s average fees every year. There is no single price to show here, so this page doesn’t make one up.
Questions about college near Ottawa
What colleges are in Ottawa?
University of Ottawa (41,503 students); Carleton University (23,806 students); Algonquin College (17,833 students); Dominicain University College; St. Paul University; The Audio Recording Academy.
Colleges and universities: Quebec’s ministry lists of colleges and universities (Données Québec, CC BY 4.0); Ontario’s public universities and colleges by campus with their 2024–25 enrolment (Open Government Licence – Ontario), placed with OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim (© OpenStreetMap contributors); elsewhere Statistics Canada’s Open Database of Educational Facilities (2019–22); Wikidata (CC0). Straight-line distances from the centre of Ottawa. Colleges are described, not graded. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, through each institution’s Wikidata item; author and licence on each.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).