Centennial College offers Diploma in Paralegal - Court and Tribunal Agent, a diploma in Fire, Justice & Security programme in Toronto, Canada. The programme runs for 4 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,005 per year (CAD 2,775 per year for local students).
The diploma trains students to become licensed paralegals in Ontario under the requirements of the Law Society Act, combining theoretical study with practical experience spanning the fields of law where licensed paralegals are permitted to work. Emphasis is placed on written and oral advocacy skills, professional ethics, and practice management. During the fourth semester, a placement in a setting related to law extends classroom instruction, with most courses delivered in person and some offered through asynchronous, synchronous or hybrid formats.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature-applicant status at 19 or older, plus a Grade 12 English College or University preparation course, or a pass on Centennial's English Admission Test. The programme page defers standardized-test scores to the college's general language-proficiency page, whose Standard Programs scale applies: IELTS Academic 6.0 with no band under 5.5, TOEFL iBT 67 with Reading at least 16 and Writing at least 23, PTE Academic 51 or higher, or Duolingo 105 or higher. No portfolio, interview, or minimum admission GPA is published; progression into the fourth-semester field placement instead requires a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 across the first three semesters and a C grade in College Communications 2.
Application Details
Start Date:January
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.