About COGS

The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) is Canada's largest geomatics-focused learning environment, located in Nova Scotia's beautiful Annapolis Valley. This are is known for its farmlands, orchards and vineyards, and is just a 15-minute drive from the Bay of Fundy, where you'll find the highest tides in the world.

COGS is an Esri Canada GIS Centre of Excellence, helping to foster education, collaboration and innovation among GIS researchers across Canada.

COGS amenities and services

• COGS campus housing
• On-site academic, career and personal counselling supports
• Library services and computer labs
• Full-service cafeteria
• Intramural sports and recreation
• Bookstore
• Solar farm
• Innovation Centre
• Student Association events and activities
• Summer housing and conference rentals at COGS

What it's like to learn at COGS

COGS is 1 of 2 locations that make up NSCC's Annapolis Valley Campus. As a COGS student, you have full access to both the COGS location and the Annapolis Valley Campus location, just a 10 minute drive away.

At COGS, you:

• Experience a friendly learning environment and meet people from all over the world.
• Learn in small classes with lots of opportunity for one-on-one interaction.
• Learn from instructors who are active in industry and have strong connections with the workforce.
• Take what you learn in the classroom and build on it through fieldwork and work experience.
• Use state-of-the-art equipment and graduate prepared for the workforce.