Royal Roads is an innovative public university offering applied and professional programs in demand in today’s global workplace.

By virtue of leasing Hatley Park from the Department of National Defence for its campus, Royal Roads becomes the only post-secondary institution in Canada responsible for the stewardship of a national historic site – Hatley Park.

Innovative, Relevant Learning

Designed to meet the needs of learners and the requirements of the global marketplace, Royal Roads University’s convenient blended learning model offers flexibility and accessibility to learners interested in applied degrees. The university’s undergraduate, graduate and executive education programs create opportunity for learners from the local community to around the world. 

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From their Hatley Park campus on the edge of the Pacific Ocean, Royal Roads reaches out to the world with international partnerships and residency options. Offering degrees in business, applied communications and culture, leadership, environment and sustainability, peace and conflict management, and information and society, Royal Roads University provides students with quality education based on the needs, schedules and lifestyles of our learners and the demands of the global market.

NEW! Tourism Training and Education

Complementing the University’s distinctive requirement to operate a national historic site visitors’ attraction, Royal Roads is in the planning stages for new accommodations on site that meet the unique visitation requirements of the university’s learners as well as cater to the executive education, learning retreat and educational travel markets.

The unique mix of tourism operations combined with a dual educational mandate enables Royal Roads University and Hatley Park National Historic Site together, to become a demonstration site of excellence in formal tourism education and lifelong learning opportunities.

To ensure the strategic growth and integration of tourism education and commercial tourism operations, Royal Roads University’s proactive learning in tourism strategy sets the direction.

Embracing lifelong learning, on-site programs for visitors to the site will be augmented by continuing studies programs tourism industry training a new Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership in Tourism, as well as new tourism degrees that fulfill a need in the Canadian tourism education market. Currently, the MA and a BA in International Hotel Management is with the Ministry of Advanced Education for approval, with the goal to have these programs available for the fall of 2006.

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• Graduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership in Tourism

• MA in International Hotel Management

• BA in International Hotel Management