At Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick in Miramichi, Canada, Diploma in Laboratory Techniques - Biotechnology is offered as a diploma in Biotechnology programme. The programme runs for 60 weeks. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,060 per total (CAD 6,480 per total for local students).
Laboratory Techniques – Biotechnology is a diploma program offered by the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB) that prepares students to work in biotechnology research, development, and production laboratories. The program serves multiple industrial sectors, including pharmaceutical, cosmetic, biomedical, food, petrochemical, forestry, environmental, and chemical industries. Coursework covers general, organic, and analytical chemistry techniques, spectroscopy and chromatography, microbiology, molecular and cellular biology techniques, biofermentation analysis, plant physiology, biochemical analysis, laboratory safety and management, and food safety, and includes a laboratory-based stage as part of the program. It is offered at the Edmundston campus. It suits students with a strong interest in applied science who enjoy precise, hands-on laboratory work and are drawn to a technical role supporting research or production in a scientific industry.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission follows CCNB's Profile G: a New Brunswick high school diploma (regular, modified, or adult programme), GED, or CCÉA, with Mathematics 30321B or 30331C, Biology 53411 or 53421, and Chemistry 52311. Applicants who do not meet this pathway may instead pass the CCNB admission test; international applicants need an equivalent secondary diploma plus this test, with Biology equivalent to Grade 12 or higher and Chemistry equivalent to Grade 11 or higher. Transcripts with adapted-level courses require a supplementary evaluation. As with all CCNB programmes, applicants whose mother tongue is not French, or who have not completed at least three years of French-language secondary schooling or a French-language postsecondary programme, must demonstrate French proficiency through the TFI (minimum score 700), TCF or TEF Canada (level B2), DELF (B2), or DALF (C1).
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick publishes no fixed application opening or closing dates, for either domestic or international applicants, for the autumn or winter session; the selection process begins in November for the following academic year, and complete applications are evaluated on a rolling basis as they are received. Rather than calendar deadlines, CCNB publishes a list, refreshed each cycle, of which programmes currently have admissions open (a 2026-27 list is live, covering Automne 2026), and it recommends applying early because some programmes draw more applications than seats available. Once an offer is made, domestic applicants have 30 days to confirm their place, while international applicants have 21 days. No separate international application deadline exists; the same rolling process applies to international applicants. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
