Offered by College of New Caledonia in Prince George, Canada, Power Engineering 4th Class Certificate is a certificate in Energy Engineering programme. The programme runs for 42 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 5,400 per total for local students.
College of New Caledonia's Power Engineering 4th Class certificate is a one-year, 42-week, full-time program offered at the Prince George and Quesnel campuses that trains students to operate and maintain equipment in industrial power plants. Students must complete 200 hours of supervised firing time as required by the BC Safety Authority, and CNC pairs classroom instruction with a simulator that lets students log practice hours -- a CNC alumnus quoted on the program page, Shift Engineer Colin Vander Ende, describes the opportunity as available at 'the only school in BC or Alberta.' Admission requires high school graduation or equivalent with a C grade in English Language Arts 11 and Foundations of Math 11, and a C- in Physics 11, with an alternate pathway available for mature students through consultation with the program. On completion, graduates are eligible to write the BC Safety Authority's fourth-class power engineer examination and can work in settings ranging from power generation plants, sawmills, and pulp mills to hospitals, refineries, refrigeration plants, breweries, and hockey arenas.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry requires high school graduation or equivalent, plus a minimum "C" grade in English Language Arts 11 (or ENGL 045, or equivalent), a minimum "C" grade in Foundations of Mathematics 11 (or Math 044, or equivalent), and a minimum "C-" grade in Physics 11 (or PHYS 045, or equivalent). Applicants who do not meet these may be assessed for admission on the basis of mature student status after consulting a CNC advisor, or can pursue CNC's Academic Upgrading options first. The program page states no English-language test score of its own; per CNC's institution-wide admission requirements, international applicants must instead meet the college's general English Language Proficiency Requirement — IELTS Academic overall 6.0 with no band below 6.0, TOEFL iBT overall 4.0 with no section below 4.0, 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 2 years) — applying through EducationPlannerBC. Admission is limited and first-qualified, first-accepted, with a waitlist once the intake is full.
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.
