Quest University Canada was fully accredited and approved by the Degree Quality Assessment Board (DQAB) under the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education.

[6][7] Quest was also registered as a British Columbia Education Quality Assurance (EQA) approved post-secondary institution.

[12] Together with Quest founding directors Blake Bromley and Peter Ufford, Strangway formed the Sea to Sky Foundation and began soliciting contributions and searching for land.

In February 2018 the University cancelled its athletics program, the Quest Kermodes, citing the need to cut costs to reduce its high debt load.

[16] On October 29, 2020, Quest University announced that an agreement had been signed with Primacorp Ventures, an investment company which owns and manages commercial and educational real estate.

Under the agreement, Quest would sell their campus lands to Primacorp and then lease them back in order to continue operations.

Other distinguishing features included the Foundation and Concentration Programs, block plan scheduling, a Question instead of a conventional major, and a final Keystone project.

Working with an instructor and a faculty mentor, they developed a statement of Question: a proposal for how they would study a topic of particular interest to them.

The Question was in lieu of a conventional major, serving as the basis for the remaining two years of study, and inspired the student's Keystone project.

With the help of a faculty advisor, students designed a personalized program, which consists of four principal elements: Along with their Concentration (or Focus) Courses, students took between one and four Experiential Learning Blocks, hands-on work that could take place in the private sector, not-for-profit, government or many other settings.

Quest stated that the purpose of Experiential Learning was to show students how their interests manifested in the world and helped them gain direct experience.

Quest operated on the block plan, where students took one course at a time, meeting every weekday for 3.5 weeks.

A few outstanding Keystones were granted Distinction, and some were chosen as Showcases that the students present to a wide audience in a formal setting.

The university provided ample services to prepare students to justify, to Graduate school admissions officers, their Keystone as the equivalent to a major.

[38] However, Macleans conducted an interview with then-President David Helfand in 2013[39] and had published several articles about the school over the years.

Eligible students could receive financial aid, including scholarships that range from $2000 to full tuition; bursaries; and a Work-Study program on campus.

Quest was an approved post-secondary institution to administer government student loans from all provinces and territories in Canada.