Trades - Apprenticeship in Automotive Service Technician: Apprenticeship is a trades - apprenticeship in Trades programme offered by Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada. The programme runs for 7 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 1,000 per total for local students.
This apprenticeship program at Thompson Rivers University delivers the technical training component of the Automotive Service Technician trade for registered apprentices. It consists of four levels, each requiring seven weeks of on-campus instruction in Kamloops, alternating with employer-sponsored, on-the-job work experience between levels. Coursework covers diagnostic procedures, vehicle systems, and trade theory building on practical shop skills. Apprentices must be sponsored by an employer registered with SkilledTradesBC and be in good physical health to participate. On completing all four levels of technical training together with the required work-based hours, apprentices earn the Automotive Service Technician Certificate of Apprenticeship and become eligible to write the interprovincial Red Seal exam for the Certificate of Qualification. The program suits individuals already employed in the trade under an apprenticeship agreement who need to complete the in-school training required at each level, rather than those seeking an initial introduction to automotive work. Training is delivered at the Kamloops campus, with sessions for each level scheduled across the year and availability varying by intake.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This is TRU's apprenticeship stream rather than the Foundation certificate, so the program page sets no high-school course prerequisites for it; entry runs through SkilledTradesBC. The page states apprentices must be sponsored by an employer registered with SkilledTradesBC and must be in good physical health. Thompson Rivers University's general undergraduate admission basis also applies at the institutional level: graduation from a recognised high-school curriculum, 12 or more transferable post-secondary credits, or mature-student status; international applicants must additionally have completed secondary school and be at least 17 years old.International applicants must also meet Thompson Rivers University's own language bar for direct entry into an undergraduate certificate or diploma program: IELTS Academic 6.5 with no band below 6.0, or TOEFL iBT 88 with no section below 20, per TRU's English requirements page.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply directly to TRU: for the September (Fall) intake the deadline is 1 May, for January (Winter) it is 1 September, and for the May (Summer) intake it is 1 January; applications for most programs open 1 October, and a deadline falling on a weekend or statutory holiday moves to the next working day. International applicants follow the same intake structure with deadlines of 1 May (September), 1 October (January) and 1 February (May); TRU still reviews later applications where space remains, though high-volume programs can close early, so admission runs on a rolling basis around these published cut-offs for the 2027 entry cycle. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
