Partnerships & Collaborations
What is Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) at The Creative School?
Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) connects curriculum and professional work while also providing academic credit. WIL activities occur through three parties: the university, student, and host organization or company. This way, students gain professional experience, network, and skills both within and outside the classroom setting.
At Toronto Metropolitan University’s The Creative School, your professional career starts before you graduate.
We are unique in making Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) a core part of its programs of study, giving students meaningful real-world experience as part of their academic journey, not as an add-on.
These opportunities have an impact that extends far beyond your student years. They prepare you for the professional world, help shape your career path, and complement your studies by deepening your understanding of industry standards, trends, and emerging shifts. This is how The Creative School prepares students for the future of work and develops industry leaders, disruptors, and successes.
Balancing theory and practice is what we do best.
As a leader in hands-on learning, each of The Creative School programs are specifically designed to allow students to apply the knowledge and skills gained in the classroom to a professional setting.
Within the timeframe of the typical 4-year undergraduate program, The Creative School sees:
3.4k
Industry Employers
137k
Creative Practice Hours
7.1k
Placements
136
On-Campus Jobs at The Creative School
671
Placements through Zone Learning (Leading a Zone project or placed with a Startup)
You can learn skills, theory, and creative practices in a classroom, but creativity comes to life through doing. Work-Integrated Learning moves you to the real world, where you can experiment, collaborate, solve problems, and create work that matters.
Because the future is creative.