Hi,
I have not yet landed. Hopefully will be joining in May. Even I have experience of 4 years in data integration and I hope that this would add to it.
I came across the two year course with co-op in their website only recently and now even I am doing a see-saw between the two.
But I guess I will probably go with this 1 year course only, because again, I don't know if a two year course investment would be worth it. Also considering the mixed reviews I got of the college. 8 months course length is considered 1 year duration, so 1 year stay back is expected.
I am actually thinking of joining this 1 year course and maybe extending to the two year one if all goes well (if that is possible). Because as you said, 2 year course will be safer as far as stay back is concerned.
But right now, I am going to go ahead with the 1 year program in Lambton only.
As far as the reviews, the general consensus I got was not to expect much from the college. And that you will have to study on your own and that you will find a lot of Indian students there. I don't know, but I found that only Lambton offers this course in May,and I don't want to wait till September. If you want to wait till September, I have heard there is a Big Data Analytics course in Georgian college.