Programs offered at Algonquin College are administered by six separate faculties within the school. These are the Faculty of Arts, Media, and Design; the Faculty of Health, Public Safety and Community Studies; the Faculty of Technology and Trades; the School of Business; the School of Hospitality and Tourism; and the School of Part-Time Studies. Offerings include 155 Ontario College programs (Certificates, Degrees, Graduate Certificates), 18 apprenticeship programs, 16 co-op programs, three collaborative degree programs and three Bachelor's degree programs.
Algonquin college permits transfer of credits from most accredited post-secondary schools. Credits are granted in the form of course exemptions for equivalent work at another school. The process is straightforward; full-time or continuing education students may submit an application for recognition of equivalent courses up to 25% of the total course load for their program. Algonquin College staff evaluate the program for equivalence with their own and decide accordingly. Approved courses are recorded, and future applicants from the same program receive automatic approval.
Algonquin College also maintains articulation agreements with a number of other institutions. Articulation agreements are formal, binding arrangements between two-year institutions and four-year institutions, laying out terms for the seamless transfer of credits from one school to another. The agreements will usually apply to specific classes or programs, and allow the two-year school to feed students directly into the later stages of a degree program at the four-year school. The process is vastly simplified for the student, and transferring students have a high graduation rate.
Algonquin College maintains formal Articulation Agreements with a number of degree-granting institutions in three countries; in January of 2011 there were a total of 25 such agreements in place. Notable Canadian universities on the list include Wilfred Laurier University, Royal Roads, Queen's, Carlton, Bishop's (School of Business only), Ryerson, and the Universities of Guelph, Calgary, Ottawa, New Brunswick and Western Ontario. The school also maintains Articulation Agreements with Davenport University in the U.S. and three schools in Australia.