Douglas College, founded in 1970, is one of the largest public institutions of higher learning in Canada. Douglas College provides four kinds of education services, including two-year associate degree (equivalent to China's junior college diploma), academic upgrading, continuing education and more than 30 vocational training programs. Associate degree majors include: art, teacher training, creative writing, economics, environmental studies, women's studies and gender relations, cross-cultural and international studies, environmental science and so on. The bachelor's degree majors in vocational training programs include business administration, child and adolescent health care, community rehabilitation, nursing, physical education and coaching, psychiatric nursing, psychology, recreational therapy, criminology, etc. Among them, psychology, music and performing arts, criminology and other majors are widely praised. Students studying for associate degree in Douglas College can enter any university of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and Victoria University to continue their bachelor's degree by transferring credits.