Offered by Coast Mountain College in Terrace, Canada, Hairstylist Foundation Certificate is a foundation in Trades programme. The programme runs for 43 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 8,400 per total for local students.
This foundation-level certificate prepares students for entry into the hairdressing profession, combining classroom theory with practical salon-based instruction to build proficiency, competency, and confidence across the full range of hairstyling services. The programme meets training objectives set by the Industry Training Authority and runs full-time over 43 weeks with a single annual intake at the Terrace campus, structured as roughly 990 hours of technical training plus a 300-hour practicum, for about 1,290 total hours. The practicum places students in The Salon at CMTN and industry workplace settings to apply skills under supervision before graduation. As a foundation programme it is a pre-apprenticeship credential rather than a registered apprenticeship, giving students the technical grounding to move into the hairstyling trade. Admission requires English Studies 10 (or English First Peoples 10) and Mathematics 10; Science 10 is recommended; and applicants need Grade 12 completion or mature student status. Graduates are prepared for work in salons, spas, barbershops, cruise lines, fashion, and entertainment, with experienced stylists able to progress into salon management, ownership, education, or platform artistry. The programme suits those with no prior training who want a structured, hands-on introduction to professional hairstyling.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Coast Mountain College's Hairstylist Foundation Certificate requires completion of English Studies 10, English First Peoples 10, and Mathematics 10, plus Grade 12 graduation or mature-student status; Science 10 is recommended but not mandatory. No standardized English-language test score is set by the program itself. English proficiency is required of every applicant regardless of citizenship. International applicants who have not completed senior secondary education, including a pass in English 12, in a designated English-speaking country must present an approved test score, with minimums tiered by program: IELTS Academic overall 6.0 (bands 5.0-6.0), TOEFL iBT overall 72-80, PTE Academic overall 52-57, CAEL overall 50-60, or Duolingo English Test overall 105-115. The program comprises 990 hours of technical training plus a 300-hour work-based practicum.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Coast Mountain College runs one common application calendar across its campuses rather than a single date per programme. Domestic applicants: for the 2026-27 academic year, applications opened 1 October 2026; the final day to apply is 24 December 2026 for Winter (January 2027) entry, 23 April 2027 for Spring/Summer 2027, and 30 August 2027 for Fall 2027. International applicants share the same opening date but face earlier cut-offs: 1 October 2026 for Winter, 1 February 2027 for Spring/Summer, and 1 June 2027 for Fall, and some high-demand programmes may close sooner. Trades and other varying-start programmes are judged against their own start dates (international due three months, domestic one week, before start), and continuous-intake programmes accept applications year-round. No single closing date exists beyond these cut-offs. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
