SAIT Polytechnic today In 2003, SAIT became a founding member of Polytechnics Canada and was rebranded as SAIT Polytechnic in 2004. Polytechnic education is characterized by: close ties with business and industry to ensure programs reflect needs of the workplace diverse programming in technical, business and creative fields, with a balance of skills-based and theoretical learning a range of credentials from certificates and apprenticeships to bachelor degrees, and options to ladder into other credentials opportunities for students to participate in applied research and other innovative projects connected with industry. Today SAIT offers 77 certificate, diploma and applied degree programs, over 30 apprenticeship trades, two baccalaureate degrees and 1,675 continuing education and corporate training courses. Annual registrations total over 71,000. Programs are delivered through eight academic schools: Business, Construction, Energy, Health and Public Safety, Hospitality and Tourism, Information and Communications Technologies, Manufacturing and Automation, and Transportation. English language foundations and academic upgrading are also offered. More than 1,000 partners from business and industry serve on SAITs program advisory committees to ensure students receive hands-on, practical training that reflects the needs of the workplace. These partnerships have also established seven Centres of Technology to enhance learning opportunities for students. SAIT is a leader in applied research and innovation, providing expertise and resources to industry and real-world learning experiences to students. SAIT has also delivered training in some 30 countries. SAIT was a founding sponsor of WorldSkills Calgary 2009 - an international competition devoted to raising awareness that the skilled trades and technologies are vital to the global economy. Some 150,000 visitors attended WorldSkills and the SAIT campus served as the Competitors Village.
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