The enforcement record of Ontario's private career colleges
601 notices on file — the complete set
345 institutions named
2007–2026 years covered
$3,250,722 penalties recorded in total
Read this correctly A compliance notice is a fact: on a date, the ministry took an action against an institution and published it. This site reproduces what was published. It is not a rating of a college , not a statement about the quality of any programme, and not a prediction about any institution.
601 notices is the complete published set , not a sample. Private career college enforcement is rare, so a small number is expected — it does not mean enforcement is rare or common.No severity ranking is shown, on purpose. The ministry records the action it took and does not publish a seriousness scale. Ordering a revocation as "worse" than a penalty would be this site's opinion, not the record.335 of 601 notices record no financial penalty. A blank penalty is a blank field in the published data; it is not a statement that none was imposed.Some institutions appear more than once because more than one action was published against them. That is a count of notices, not a measure of wrongdoing.
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Institutions with the most notices on file
A count of published notices, not a ranking of institutions. 191 institutions have more than one notice on file.
Actions by wording Counted from the action recorded on each notice. A count of actions taken, not a ranking of seriousness.
Enforcement actions by the wording the ministry uses Counted from the action recorded on each notice. This is a count of actions taken, not a ranking of how serious any of them was. Restraining Order Restraining Order: 232 notices 232 Financial Penalty and Review Decision Financial Penalty and Review Decision: 142 notices 142 Financial Penalty Financial Penalty: 133 notices 133 Compliance Order Compliance Order: 35 notices 35 Refusal to Renew Registration Refusal to Renew Registration: 12 notices 12 Revocation of Registration Revocation of Registration: 10 notices 10 Refusal to Register Refusal to Register: 7 notices 7 Immediate Suspension of Registration and Revocation of Registr Immediate Suspension of Registration and Revocation of Registr: 7 notices 7 Immediate Suspension of Registration Immediate Suspension of Registration: 5 notices 5 Notice of Contravention and review decision Notice of Contravention and review decision: 4 notices 4 Refusal to Renew Application Refusal to Renew Application: 3 notices 3 Complaince Order Complaince Order: 3 notices 3 Review Decision and Financial Penalty Review Decision and Financial Penalty: 1 notices 1 Financial Penalty - Rescinded Financial Penalty - Rescinded: 1 notices 1 Immediate Suspension and Revocation of Registration Immediate Suspension and Revocation of Registration: 1 notices 1 Compliance and Restaining Order Compliance and Restaining Order: 1 notices 1 Complaince and Restraining Order Complaince and Restraining Order: 1 notices 1 Notice to Students Notice to Students: 1 notices 1 Judicial Restraining Order Judicial Restraining Order: 1 notices 1 Revocation of Program Approval Revocation of Program Approval: 1 notices 1 Source: Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.
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Notices by year The year recorded on the notice. Taller is more notices published — not a worse year.
Notices published by year The year recorded on the notice. Taller bars are more notices published that year — not a worse year for students. 0 40 80 120 160 200 2007: 6 2008: 20 2009: 23 2010: 180 2011: 80 2012: 20 2013: 74 2014: 33 2015: 6 2018: 10 2019: 13 2020: 17 2021: 24 2022: 27 2023: 16 2024: 22 2025: 13 2026: 17 Source: Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.
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By year and family of action Grouped by the ministry's own wording, not by a severity scale.
Notices by year, by family of action Grouped by the wording the ministry used, not by a severity scale — the publisher does not publish one. 0 40 80 120 160 200 2007 — Order: 3 2007 — Financial penalty: 0 2007 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 3 2007 — Other action: 0 2007 2008 — Order: 12 2008 — Financial penalty: 0 2008 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 8 2008 — Other action: 0 2008 2009 — Order: 17 2009 — Financial penalty: 3 2009 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 3 2009 — Other action: 0 2009 2010 — Order: 87 2010 — Financial penalty: 88 2010 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 4 2010 — Other action: 1 2010 2011 — Order: 29 2011 — Financial penalty: 49 2011 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 2 2011 — Other action: 0 2011 2012 — Order: 17 2012 — Financial penalty: 3 2012 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 0 2012 — Other action: 0 2012 2013 — Order: 33 2013 — Financial penalty: 40 2013 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 1 2013 — Other action: 0 2013 2014 — Order: 9 2014 — Financial penalty: 24 2014 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 0 2014 — Other action: 0 2014 2015 — Order: 0 2015 — Financial penalty: 1 2015 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 5 2015 — Other action: 0 2015 2018 — Order: 4 2018 — Financial penalty: 6 2018 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 0 2018 — Other action: 0 2018 2019 — Order: 7 2019 — Financial penalty: 4 2019 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 2 2019 — Other action: 0 2019 2020 — Order: 12 2020 — Financial penalty: 2 2020 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 3 2020 — Other action: 0 2020 2021 — Order: 8 2021 — Financial penalty: 12 2021 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 1 2021 — Other action: 3 2021 2022 — Order: 6 2022 — Financial penalty: 16 2022 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 5 2022 — Other action: 0 2022 2023 — Order: 2 2023 — Financial penalty: 10 2023 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 3 2023 — Other action: 1 2023 2024 — Order: 7 2024 — Financial penalty: 13 2024 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 2 2024 — Other action: 0 2024 2025 — Order: 6 2025 — Financial penalty: 3 2025 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 2 2025 — Other action: 2 2025 2026 — Order: 10 2026 — Financial penalty: 3 2026 — Registration refused, suspended or revoked: 2 2026 — Other action: 2 2026 Order Financial penalty Registration refused, suspended or revoked Other action Source: Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.
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Penalties recorded Only the 266 notices that record a dollar amount. 335 notices record no penalty.
Financial penalties recorded, by year Only the notices that record a dollar amount. Most notices record no penalty at all — see the note under this chart. 0 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000 2007: 0 2008: 0 2009: 36500 2010: 429322 2011: 216250 2012: 14000 2013: 514200 2014: 546750 2015: 1000 2018: 130700 2019: 116000 2020: 13750 2021: 590250 2022: 244250 2023: 128000 2024: 210000 2025: 8000 2026: 51750 Source: Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities.
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Every compliance notice and enforcement action the Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities has published against a private career college: the institution, the action, the year, and the penalty where one was recorded.
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