Cert in Carpentry Techniques at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Canada is a certificate in Civil Engineering & Construction programme. The programme runs for 36 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 20,229 per total (CAD 3,146 per total for local students).
Coursework covers identifying, selecting and maintaining hand tools and portable power tools, as well as stationary shop tools, among them table saws and jointers, following industry-standard safety and efficiency practices. Students study roof framing, including equal-pitch hip and intersecting roofs, and the shaping and joining of lumber using wood joints, fasteners and adhesives.
Measurement work is carried out using both Imperial and Metric systems.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: St. Lawrence College's Carpentry Techniques certificate requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent, including Grade 12 English at the C, U or E level and Grade 11 Math. Transcripts from outside Canada require evaluation through the college's transcript-evaluation process, and students missing a prerequisite may enroll in the college's Career/College Prep program, free for Ontario residents aged 18 or older. The program page does not state its own language-proficiency scores; applicants whose first language is not English are assessed against St. Lawrence College's institution-wide scale for Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma programs: IELTS Academic 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5), TOEFL iBT 4 overall (78 under the pre-January-2026 scale), PTE Academic 55, CAEL 60, or Duolingo 110 (no sub-score below 85).
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for programmes starting September 2027 the application opens 26 September 2026, the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and later applications are assessed first-come, first-served while seats remain; St. Lawrence College names Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Communicative Disorders Assistant, Medical Laboratory Science and Practical Nursing as highly competitive, requiring transcripts and proof of enrolment by the same 1 February date to be ranked. International applicants apply through SLC's own International Application Service and are assessed on a rolling basis; the college publishes no fixed international closing date, and each Letter of Acceptance carries its own accept-and-pay deadline. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.