Comparison Essay

Comparing two courses, One course is Funeral Service Education that is located at Humber College in Toronto. The other is Biotechnology Technologist – Forensics, this course is located in Fleming College in Peterborough.

The pros of going to Funeral Service Education at Humber, The course is the only English-speaking course in Ontario, so students form around the world come to attend. The class size is not too big because the course only accepts about 40 to 45 people per year. With that many people the students are able to be more hands one with their learning. Students must place them selves in a one-year paid internship. The Funeral Service Education is a two-year course for the first two semesters the cost for 2007 and 2008 is $ 2, 77.16 and the additional cost $1200 for textbooks. Once licensed, graduates are eligible to work in any Ontario funeral home and find easy transfer toward licensing in other provinces. On average, employment rates for graduates are around 93 percent.

The pros of Biotechnology Technologist – Forensics at Fleming, The cost for the 2008 semester starts at 1,730.60 and that is per semester and it is a two and half year course. Students must complete a fifteen-week internship, to seek and gain experience in an area of specialization. Most student get employed were they had there internship.

The Con’s for Humber’s, Funeral Service Education that students must paid a $35 fee to take pre-admission and go town to Toronto to take it. Students also must have a valid class G Driver licence.
The Humber course wants their student to find their own work placement that could be very difficult when the student is not formalizer with Toronto.

The Con’s for Fleming, Biotechnology Technologist – Forensics. Fleming does not give enough information about course on the college website or in their program guide. The course does not outline what the additional costs are. Because it is somewhat of a new course at Fleming they don’t have any employment rates yet. Plus the internship is not a paid one.

The course that does seem to stand out more is Funeral Service Education at Humber, because it cost lest for a student to do the Funeral Service Education then Biotechnology Technologist – Forensics. With Humber having more information in its program guide and website give it more of lead, because mostly al the things a student needs to know is there. With Fleming the information is somewhat hard to find.