Photo: Derek Hatfield from Peterborough, Canada · CC BY 2.0Thunder Bay is home to 2 colleges and universities
Lakehead University (5,509 students) and Confederation College (3,247 students) are inside Thunder Bay.
What stands out about college in Thunder Bay
Facts about the town and its distance to campus, with figures for each college.
Colleges and universities within 25 km of Thunder Bay
2 within 25 km: 1 university, 1 college or cégep.
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 Thunder Bay
What colleges are in Thunder Bay?
Lakehead University (5,509 students); Confederation College (3,247 students).
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 Thunder Bay. 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).