Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0Vanier is home to Collège Avalon
Collège Avalon is inside Vanier; the nearest university campus outside it is the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, 2.6 km away in Québec.
What stands out about college in Vanier
Facts about the town and its distance to campus, with figures for each college.
Colleges and universities within 25 km of Vanier
22 within 25 km: 4 universities, 1 other school, 17 colleges and cégeps.




And 10 smaller schools with 56,000 students in all.
What would you pay?
In Quebec, a resident studying full time at a public cégep pays no tuition, only small fees; private colleges charge their own. Universities charge Quebec residents the province’s set rate, students from elsewhere in Canada and abroad more.
Questions about college near Vanier
What colleges are in Vanier?
Collège Avalon.
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 Vanier. 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).