Why did I choose (U)Winnipeg?

Many people often ask, including Canadians, why my family and I crossed the ocean from tropical and ever-green Bali island and stopped in Winnipeg - in the heart of the country, with a population of just over 700 thousand, where the temperature reaches -42 during the winter, and +36 in summer?

When I googled programs that I would like to study in Canada, I found the one-year postgraduate program through PACE at The University of Winnipeg, that offered the coolest and most interesting program. This program is an amazing mix of PR, communications, marketing, and management. PACE blends university-level academics with practical hands-on experience.

It offers it all: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, CRM (customer relationship management systema) and marketing strategies, familiarity with event management and corporate sponsorship. I did not find a similar program in Toronto or Vancouver universities, and that is what you normally are looking for; for something unique and different.

After reading the list of the courses (32 for the whole year), I did not hesitate and clicked the “submit documents” button right away. I filled out the form and sent my transcripts, which have been evaluated through World Education Services (WES), added my Academic IELTS with a 7.5 total score.

I barely knew anything about the city, and I didn’t specifically google it. Not because it was not important, but because it was not the main thing. After all, the main thing was that desire to dive in into something interesting, new, and unique environment. And although it was not easy to combine everything at once. In the very beginning it seemed somehow too heavy and too intense, but now I can’t imagine that it could be done differently?

Marina Nagornaia will be graduating from the PR, Marketing & Strategic Communications Management Diploma in fall 2020.

Photo by Marina's classmate, Alina Oliinyk.