At Collège Mérici in Québec, Canada, Cert in Event and Convention Management (AEC) is offered as a certificate in Event Management programme. The programme is delivered in a hybrid format. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,554 per total (CAD 6,470 per total for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Certificate
Field:Event Management
Delivery: Hybrid
Local tuition: CAD 6,470 / total
International tuition: CAD 15,554 / total
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This continuing-education attestation (AEC) program prepares students to plan and coordinate events, conferences and conventions, running 555 hours delivered online Monday through Thursday during the day; students must be able to travel to Quebec City for the program's final week, when they organize a real event as students. Coursework covers planning and participating in event and convention organization, producing promotional and informational materials, managing an event's finances, applying marketing and human-resources management principles, sourcing funding and negotiating with suppliers, applying sales techniques used in event tourism, and collaborating on large-scale events such as festivals. Admission is open to adult learners who meet continuing-education entry conditions, such as an interruption in full-time studies, an agreement between the college and an employer or government program, or holding a vocational studies diploma (DEP); there is no enrolment quota. The program does not lead into university-credit pathways. It suits organized, creative adults seeking to work as conference or event planners, festival organizers, or trade-show coordinators for tourism associations, corporations, congress centres or as self-employed professionals; the program is scheduled to restart in a revised form in fall 2027.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This Attestation d'études collégiales (AEC) in Event and Convention Management admits applicants deemed to have 'sufficient education' (formation jugée suffisante) by the College, combined with at least one of: an interruption of full-time studies of two consecutive sessions or one school year; coverage under an agreement between the College and an employer or a government programme; an interruption of full-time studies for one session followed by one session of full-time post-secondary study; or holding a Diploma of Vocational Studies (DEP). The programme's own page does not state a secondary or college diploma requirement, a French- or English-language test score, or a minimum amount of work experience beyond the pathways above.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants to Collège Mérici, a private CEGEP, can begin applying online for the Automne 2027 intake starting 15 September 2026, per the college's own admissions announcement. No closing date, equal-consideration date, or program-specific deadline is published anywhere on the site: Mérici's admission and international pages are built as a client-side JavaScript application whose content could not be retrieved through a browser-UA fetch or an archived copy. No distinct international-applicant deadline, process, or statement on rolling admission is published either. Whether seats are filled on a rolling basis could not be confirmed from the institution's own pages and would need to be checked directly with its admissions office. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
