Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, SAIT

Southern Alberta Institute of Technology is the first publicly funded technical institute in Canada, established in 1916. The university provides training to 75,000 course and program registrants per year. It has 35 programs nationally accredited.

In 1916 Canada’s first public technical school opened its doors in temporary quarters in a former police and fire station adjacent to the Colonel James Walker School in southeast Calgary. Named the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, it was established to train returning World War I veterans. The Institute offered classes in these makeshift facilities until moving to its current location in 1922. A three-storey red brick and sandstone building built in the Collegiate Gothic style opened that year and was shared by the technical institute and a Normal School for the training of teachers. Now known as Heritage Hall, the original building was magnificently restored in 2001 and commands one of the best views in Calgary of the city’s downtown on the banks of the Bow River and the Rocky Mountains to the west.

The University of Alberta was also housed in Heritage Hall at that time as an extension campus to offer university courses to Calgarians. This arrangement continued until the establishment of the University of Calgary in 1960.

Departments:

• School of Information and Communications Technologies
• School of Business
• School of Construction
• School of Hospitality and Tourism
• MacPhail School of Energy
• School of Health and Public Safety
• School of Manufacturing and Automation
• School of Transportation

Facilities:

• Campus Centre
• Coffee House
• SAITSA Bookshop
• SAIT Library

Contact Details:
1301 - 16 Avenue NW, Calgary
Alberta, Canada- T2M 0L4
Phone: +1 (403) 284-7248
Fax: +1 (403) 284-7112
Official Website: http://www.sait.ab.ca