Offered by Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, Cert in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) - General Arts and Sciences is a certificate in Engineering & Technology programme. The programme is delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 9,003 per semester (CAD 1,265 per semester for local students).
This intensive, full-time program builds academic English skills for success in college or university, with a focus on reading, writing, listening and speaking developed through presentations, group work, interactive exercises and communicative language activities. Students have access to tutoring, library and counselling resources alongside their coursework. Incoming students are placed into one of three levels based on a placement test, with each level lasting one semester and a direct pathway from the highest level into college communication courses. The programme is not intended for people whose first language is English.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature-student status at 19 or older. Unlike Centennial's regular programmes, this preparatory pathway sets its own low band of English scores as the entry requirement rather than deferring to the college's standard proficiency table: Canadian Language Benchmark 4, IELTS 3.5-4.0, paper-based TOEFL 397-433, TOEFL iBT 30-40, iTEP 3.5-3.6, Pearson Test of English Academic 36-40, or a pass on the Cambridge Preliminary English Test. All applicants complete a specialized English placement assessment to confirm the correct EAP level. The page states plainly that the programme is not intended for absolute beginners or for native English speakers. No portfolio, interview, or work-experience requirement applies. Intakes run in January, May, and September for both domestic and international applicants.
Application Details
Start Date:January, May and September
Application Deadline:Centennial publishes no application deadline for this program; what follows is the Ontario college cycle that governs it. Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for a program starting in Fall 2027 the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and applications arriving after it are still assessed, but first-come first-served while places remain. Across the Ontario college system the application opened on 26 September 2026, offers may be issued from 1 November 2026, and an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027. One $150 fee covers up to five program choices. International applicants apply directly to Centennial through its own international application process and are assessed on a rolling basis across the Fall, Winter and Summer intakes; the college publishes no fixed international closing date. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
