Athabasca University

Athabasca University, Canada's Open University, is dedicated to the removal of barriers that restrict access to and success in university-level study and to increasing equality of educational opportunity for adult learners worldwide. 

This About AU section of our website will help you to understand that mission, how we go about accomplishing it and how, in the process of doing so, we help thousands of learners every year to accomplish their personal goals and realize their dreams. Please take a few minutes to get to know us better. 

Our approach to post-secondary education is based on four key principles: excellence, openness, flexibility and innovation.

Currently, The Athabasca University currently is located at Athabasca, Canada. There are five main campus distributed in the country. 

The five campus are:

• AU Athabasca
• AU Edmonton
• AU Calgary
• Centre of innovative management
• AU Learning Link - University of Alberta 

The town of Athabasca is located some 150 kilometres north of Edmonton, Alberta's capital city. Athabasca was originally called "Athabasca Landing," and in the days when travel by waterways was commonplace, it was an important transport hub. Between 1880 and 1914 Athabasca Landing was one of Canada's largest inland boat-building centres as scows and paddle-wheelers were made to carry goods and people northward and to bring furs back south.