Diploma in Hearing Aid Fitting (Audioprosthetics) is a diploma in Rehabilitation Sciences programme taught at Collège Mérici in Québec, Canada. The programme runs for 3 years. Tuition is CAD 10,230 per semester for local students.
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Rehabilitation Sciences
Duration: 3 years
Local tuition: CAD 10,230 / semester
Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This technical college program prepares students for the audioprosthetics profession, leading toward registration with Quebec's Ordre des audioprothésistes (OAQ). It runs three years across 2,490 hours of instruction, averaging about 28 hours per week including general education, with more than half of specialized training delivered through workplace-based learning inside a Lobe clinic or the college's teaching clinic. Coursework covers the anatomy and acoustic properties of the ear, hearing pathologies and their audiological effects, psychoacoustic principles such as sound localization and speech intelligibility, and building a complete audiometric profile. Students learn to assess hearing needs, select and adjust hearing aid appliances, guide patients through post-fitting adaptation, and perform maintenance and repair of hearing devices, alongside administrative tasks such as record-keeping and client service. Ethical, legal and professional standards for the audioprosthetics profession are also addressed. The program suits students interested in a hands-on health-technology career combining clinical work with technical problem-solving; admission requires Quebec residency, prerequisite math and physics courses, and an admission interview, with a limited number of seats offered each fall.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Collège Mérici requires the general DEC entry standing for this Hearing Aid Fitting (Audioprosthetics) programme: a Secondary 5 transcript from Quebec's Ministère de l'Éducation or the recognized equivalent, a $50 admission fee, and certified transcripts covering the applicant's last three years of study; candidates who did not study in French in Canada, France, Belgium, Monaco, or an accredited French lycée abroad must also submit French-language test results. On top of that baseline, the programme itself requires Mathematics 536 (or Technical-Sciences 5e / Sciences naturelles 5e) and Physics 534 (or 5e secondaire); applicants whose academic file meets these are then called to a selection interview. Intake is capped at 25 places, the application deadline is March 1, and for the Fall 2026 cohort admission is restricted to Quebec residents.
Application Details
Start Date:September
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.
