Trades - Apprenticeship in Carpentry: Apprenticeship at British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada is a trades - apprenticeship in Trades programme. The programme runs for 4 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 4,100 per total for local students.
This apprenticeship trains carpenters in the assembly and erection of falsework and concrete forms, wood- and metal-frame construction, and interior and exterior finishing work across residential, commercial, and industrial projects. The in-school component totals 840 hours across four seven-week levels, beginning with an introduction to wood-frame construction, safety, tools, and scaffolding in Level 1 and progressing through further skill development in Levels 2 to 4; classes run weekday mornings at the Burnaby campus. Apprentices must also complete 6,360 workplace hours with a sponsoring employer over the roughly four-year program. On completion, apprentices earn a BC Certificate of Apprenticeship, a BC Certificate of Qualification, and the Interprovincial Standard (Red Seal) Endorsement, allowing their credential to be recognized across Canada. Entry requires active registration with SkilledTradesBC, and a Grade 10 education including English 10, Math 10, and Science 10 is recommended, with high school graduation preferred; the program is restricted to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry to the Carpentry apprenticeship requires the applicant to already be an active apprentice registered with SkilledTradesBC, reached either directly through an employer sponsor or by first completing BCIT's Carpentry Framing and Forming Foundation program, which grants Level 1 credit toward the apprenticeship. The program recommends Grade 10 education or equivalent, including English 10 (or BCIT's own English-language-proficiency assessment in its place), any Math 10, and Science 10, and notes that high-school graduation is preferred; no grade percentage or standardized test score is cited. BCIT accepts apprentice-training requests only from Canadian citizens and permanent residents. Applicants with a medical or physical difficulty are directed to arrange an interview with Accessibility Services. Multiple start dates run each year per the Apprenticeship Training Schedule.
Application Details
Application Deadline:BCIT publishes common credential application dates for most cohort-based diplomas, degrees and Flexible Learning routes, though each program's own page governs: for the January 2027 intake domestic applications run 1 February 2026 to 2 January 2027 and international to 1 November 2026; for the April 2027 intake domestic runs 1 May 2026 to 1 April 2027 and international to 1 February 2027; for September 2027 domestic applications open 1 October 2026 and close 1 September 2027, international 2 July 2027. Openings are 9:00 am and deadlines 11:59 pm Pacific Time, moving to the next business day on a weekend. Admission is not institute-wide rolling, but many programs work first-qualified-first-accepted and can fill before the posted deadline, and several programs, mostly in Health Sciences, trades and graduate studies, run entirely separate application tables of their own. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
