Private Career Colleges offer their diploma programs over a much shorter period of time than Community Colleges. In order to understand why they can do this, we like to demonstrate by using the common pizza.

Just about everyone likes pizza. 

However, it is important to remember that in order for you to have a pizza, you need a few basic ingredients. 

Those basic ingredients are dough, cheese and sauce.

If you have those three ingredients, you have a pizza. Those are the three basic ingredients. 

However, some people like to add toppings. 

So you can take your basic pizza and add all kinds of toppings. You can add pepperoni, olives, green peppers, onions, bacon – the list goes on. You can add on whatever you feel will make you better enjoy your pizza.

The more toppings you add, the more flavour you get. 

But not everyone likes all of the toppings. So you get to put only the toppings on that you like. 

However, in order to like pizza in the first place, you must enjoy the basic ingredients of the pizza, namely dough, cheese and sauce.

So when you think of Private Career Colleges, think about the basic pizza. The Private Career College offers the dough, cheese and sauce. 

When you think about university or community college, think about the pizza with the toppings. 

You still get to enjoy the pizza you wanted in the first place, but now there are all kinds of other things added to give it more flavour.

What the Ministry of Education has said is that in order for an institution - any institution - to provide diplomas or certificates, you must have a specific number of basic ingredients. 

This means that whether a person gets a diploma as a pharmacy technician from a community college or from a private career college, there are certain skills and knowledge that are required in order for a person to be qualified to become a pharmacy technician, and employers must be assured that the diploma is proof that the person has received this minimum amount of training.

It is really just like ordering a pizza. 

You can have all kinds of other things added to your program, but in the end, all that matters is that you at least have the standards that the Ministry of Education has set out as the minimum.

This is one of the reasons why the Private Career Colleges can offer their diploma courses in such a short period of time compared to the community colleges. 

They don’t add any unnecessary toppings. 

They just give you what you really want – the training to become qualified in your chosen field. 

f you want some of the other toppings – in other words, if you want extra things added, then you can go to the community colleges, but it will take you longer to get your diploma.