College of New Caledonia offers Power Engineering 3rd Class Certificate, a certificate in Energy Engineering programme in Prince George, Canada. The programme runs for 30 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 4,900 per total for local students.
The 30-week program builds on the fourth-class power engineering certificate with practical and technical training for steam plant operation and maintenance. Successful completion counts as qualifying time toward the firing hours needed before sitting the third-class power engineer's exams, with coursework spanning refrigeration, prime movers, boilers, pumps, instrumentation and electrical theory, boiler codes, chemistry, thermodynamics and applied mechanics.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission is restricted to applicants who already hold 4th Class Power Engineering certification. Up to 12 seats each intake are reserved for returning students who completed CNC's 4th Class Power Engineering work-experience partnership with Canfor, with the remaining seats filled first qualified, first accepted. The page states no test-based English-language requirement of its own; applicants otherwise meet CNC's general levels of IELTS Academic overall 6.0 with no band below 6.0, PTE Academic overall 59 with no section below 55, CAEL overall 60 with no subtest below 60, CELPIP General with no section below 7, or Duolingo English Test overall 115 valid two years, as set out in CNC's admission requirements. Completion of the programme itself further requires specified technical training content, practical and theory assessments including simulator training, and a five-week practical lab.
Application Details
Start Date:Fall
Application Deadline:College of New Caledonia runs first-qualified, first-accepted admissions with no single deadline for most programmes. Domestic and international applicants use the same process, though international students also go through CNC's international application page: applications for Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 entry are open now, and applications for Fall 2027 and Spring 2028 entry open on 1 October 2026. Seats are assessed on a rolling basis and close once a programme fills or the term begins; CNC advises applying as soon as applications open, and international applicants typically get an offer letter within four to six weeks. The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Northern Collaborative Baccalaureate Nursing Program) and the Diagnostic Medical Sonography Diploma are exceptions, each carrying a fixed 1 March application-and-documentation deadline. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
