Editing Surrey, British Columbia (section)

== Education ==

[[File:Surrey center library.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Surrey Central Library]]
Of the city's population over the age of 25, 23.7 percent hold a bachelor's degree or higher, slightly below the national average of 25.8 percent. 47.2 percent work in professional and managerial jobs, compared with the national average of 52.7 percent.<ref name="StatsCan" /><ref name="National Survey" />

=== Schools ===
[[School District 36 Surrey]] oversees 100 public elementary and 21 public secondary schools in Surrey, making it the largest public school district in [[British Columbia]], as well as the largest employer in Surrey.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Surrey Schools Fact Sheet |url=https://media.surreyschools.ca/media/Default/medialib/surrey-schools-fact-sheet.100fca69428.pdf |access-date=28 June 2024 |website=SurreySchools.ca}}</ref> The ''[[Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique]]'' operates one Francophone school in the city: ''[[École Gabrielle-Roy (Surrey)|École Gabrielle-Roy]]'', which includes primary and secondary levels.<ref>"[http://www.csf.bc.ca/ecoles/en-colombie-britannique/carte-des-ecoles/ Carte des écoles] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817050550/http://www.csf.bc.ca/ecoles/en-colombie-britannique/carte-des-ecoles/ |date=August 17, 2015 }}." ''[[Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britanique]]''. Retrieved on January 22, 2015.</ref>

==== Old Anniedale School ====
The Old Anniedale School, built in 1891,<ref name="HistoricPlaces">{{Cite web |title=Old Anniedale School |url=https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=1917 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=HistoricPlaces.ca |publisher=Canadian Register of Historic Places}}</ref> is one of the earliest schools in Surrey. It was designed by the British Columbia Department of Lands and Works and constructed by Samuel Edge.

The school is associated with the development of the Tynehead and Anniedale neighbourhoods, first settled in the 1860s along the Coast Meridian Road (168th Street).<ref name="HistoricPlaces" /> Now located on the grounds of the modern Anniedale Elementary School, it hosts re-enactments of 19th-century lessons. It was saved from demolition in 1975 by the Anniedale Parent Teacher Association and renovated with government grants and community support.<ref name="HistoricPlaces" /> The building was restored again in 2019 by Gibraltar Construction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Heritage buildings moved across Surrey last year to receive $729K in restorations |url=https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/heritage-buildings-moved-across-surrey-last-year-to-receive-729k-in-restorations-2952620 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=Surrey Now-Leader}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-05 |title=Old Anniedale School & Surrey Town Hall Restoration - Gibraltar Construction |url=https://gibraltar.ca/portfolio/old-anniedale-school-surrey-town-hall-restoration/ |access-date=2025-02-18 |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Higher education ===
Surrey's local higher education needs are met by the two major research universities in the neighboring municipalities of the [[Metro Vancouver|Vancouver Metropolitan Area]], the [[University of British Columbia]] and [[Simon Fraser University]]. In addition to several career, community, and junior colleges that offer [[Vocational_school|vocational]] and [[Institute of technology|polytechnic]] education throughout the city, [[trade school|trades]] and [[technical school|technical career education]] is mainly provided by [[College (Canada)|colleges]] such as [[Kwantlen Polytechnic University]] in the Cloverdale and Newton area and by the [[British Columbia Institute of Technology]] in the neighboring municipality of Burnaby. 

Surrey is home to the third satellite campus of [[Simon Fraser University]], the SFU Surrey Campus, which opened its doors in 2002, acting as a satellite campus operating as a public research university as well as providing further impetus for shaping the city. SFU took over the space and programming that was initially built for [[Technical University of British Columbia|TechBC]], a technical university proposed for south of the [[Fraser River]] by the [[British Columbia New Democratic Party|NDP]] provincial government of the 1990s. SFU Surrey offers a number of programs, including TechOne and Explorations; first-year cohort options; and studies in Health Science, Applied Sciences, Natural Sciences, Liberal Arts, Business Administration, and Interactive Arts and Technology. 

On November 28, 2022, Premier [[David Eby]] announced plans to launch a new medical school at Simon Fraser University's Surrey campus by September 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 28, 2022 |title=New medical school at SFU's Surrey campus to train next generation of doctors: Premier |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/new-bc-medical-school-simon-fraser-university   |website=Vancouver Sun}}</ref> Eby announced a provincial earmark of $4.9{{Nbsp}}million in start-up financing to support the potential opening.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 28, 2022 |title=New medical school at SFU's Surrey campus to train next generation of doctors: Premier |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/new-bc-medical-school-simon-fraser-university |website=Vancouver Sun |access-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129012715/https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/new-bc-medical-school-simon-fraser-university |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Simpson |first=Beau |date=November 28, 2022 |title=Promised new SFU Surrey medical school to be ready by 2026, B.C. announces |url=https://www.terracestandard.com/news/promised-new-sfu-surrey-medical-school-to-be-ready-by-2026-b-c-announces/ |website=Terrace Standard |access-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423214544/https://www.terracestandard.com/news/promised-new-sfu-surrey-medical-school-to-be-ready-by-2026-b-c-announces/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The inauguration of the school in 2026 will mark the planned opening of Western Canada's first new medical school in 55 years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 28, 2022 |title=New medical school at SFU's Surrey campus to train next generation of doctors: Premier |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/new-bc-medical-school-simon-fraser-university |website=Vancouver Sun |access-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-date=November 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221129012715/https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/new-bc-medical-school-simon-fraser-university |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Simpson |first=Beau |date=November 28, 2022 |title=Promised new SFU Surrey medical school to be ready by 2026, B.C. announces |url=https://www.terracestandard.com/news/promised-new-sfu-surrey-medical-school-to-be-ready-by-2026-b-c-announces/ |website=Terrace Standard |access-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-date=April 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423214544/https://www.terracestandard.com/news/promised-new-sfu-surrey-medical-school-to-be-ready-by-2026-b-c-announces/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

Surrey is also the home of [[Kwantlen Polytechnic University]], an undergraduate polytechnic university that opened its doors in the [[Newton Town Centre]] of Surrey in 1981 as a response to the growing need for expanded vocational training across the Fraser Valley. In 2008, Kwantlen Polytechnic University was conferred a university designation from the BC provincial government, upgrading itself from a community college to an official academic teaching institution that has become renowned in applied research.<ref>{{Cite web |title=City of Surrey education |url=http://www.surrey.ca/files/Education_Sector_Profile_Brochure__LORES.pdf |access-date=February 14, 2015 |publisher=City of Surrey |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924112044/http://www.surrey.ca/files/Education_Sector_Profile_Brochure__LORES.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="canada.com">{{Cite news |date=April 22, 2008 |title=Kwantlen granted full university status |work=Surrey Now |publisher=CanWest MediaWorks Publications Inc. |url=http://www.canada.com/surreynow/news/story.html?id=a327a555-2a5f-409b-98f0-0cb675c2b8a9&k=80441 |access-date=April 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101151135/http://www.canada.com/surreynow/news/story.html?id=a327a555-2a5f-409b-98f0-0cb675c2b8a9&k=80441 |archive-date=January 1, 2011}}</ref><ref name="leg.bc.ca">Queen's Printer, Victoria. [http://www.leg.bc.ca/38th4th/votes/progress-of-bills.htm Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305120024/http://www.leg.bc.ca/38th4th/votes/progress-of-bills.htm |date=March 5, 2012 }} 4th Session, 38th Parliament, May 29, 2008. Retrieved on: September 6, 2008</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=An Overview of B.C.'s Public Post-secondary Institutions |url=http://www.aved.gov.bc.ca/institutions/welcome.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090925032807/http://www.aved.gov.bc.ca/institutions/welcome.htm |archive-date=September 25, 2009 |access-date=August 17, 2017}}</ref> Since then, Kwantlen has expanded to various satellite campuses in [[Richmond, British Columbia|Richmond]], [[Langley, British Columbia (city)|Langley]], and as well as a trades and technology centre in the [[Cloverdale, Surrey|Cloverdale Town Centre]]. The Kwantlen Surrey campus offers university transfer, career-training and academic-upgrading programs with focuses on science, business, arts, and health, including a publicly accessible wellness center, while the Cloverdale campus offers vocational training through apprenticeships, citations, certificates, and diplomas for skilled trades and technical careers.

In November 2021, the [[University of British Columbia]] announced plans to establish a location in Surrey just north of [[Surrey Memorial Hospital]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 2, 2021 |title=UBC expanding presence in Surrey with $70M land acquisition |work=UBC News |url=https://news.ubc.ca/2021/11/02/ubc-expanding-presence-in-surrey-with-70m-land-acquisition/ |access-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-date=July 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702011259/https://news.ubc.ca/2021/11/02/ubc-expanding-presence-in-surrey-with-70m-land-acquisition/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Besides Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey is also home to numerous community and junior colleges providing [[vocational education]], including [[Brighton College (Canada)|Brighton College]], [[Sprott Shaw College]], [[PACE Canada College]], Pacific Link College, [[CDI College]], Western Community College, Sterling College, Stenberg College, Academy of Learning, Surrey Community College, Discovery Community College and [[Vancouver Career College]].