Vancouver Community College offers Transportation Trades Sampler Short Certificate, a certificate in Trades programme in Vancouver, Canada. The programme is delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 1,600 per total for local students.
The certificate offers a short overview of core areas within the transportation trades, spanning automotive service, automotive collision and refinishing work, and heavy-duty equipment, intended to help a learner choose an apprenticeship or career path afterward.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This is a Youth in Trades program restricted to BC secondary students in Grades 10 and 11; it does not accept direct applications to VCC. Interested students must go through their school district's Career Program Coordinator or Administrator to complete the Youth in Trades Application and submit it to VCC's Youth in Trades office, with further detail on the SkilledTradesBC Youth in Trades website. The page states no specific academic grades, GPA or English-proficiency test score (IELTS, TOEFL, PTE, Duolingo or CAEL). General conditions: available to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with official transcripts and educational documents submitted as required; Indigenous applicants are encouraged to contact VCC's Indigenous Education and Community Engagement team. The page lists preferred, non-mandatory attributes: basic computer skills, good general health, physical capability with heavy equipment, mechanical aptitude, manual dexterity, a valid BC driver's licence, and normal colour vision.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through EducationPlannerBC. VCC publishes each programme's own application window, term by term, on its When to Apply page rather than one college-wide date: windows open roughly six to twenty months before the term starts and close on a stated date, though popular programmes can close earlier once seats fill, since places generally go to eligible applicants in the order their application is completed. International applicants use the International Applicant option on EducationPlannerBC; VCC opens international applications on 1 February of the previous year for Winter entry, 1 June for Spring/Summer, and 1 October for Fall, with no fixed closing date — applications continue until roughly three to four months before the term begins or until it fills, so admission is effectively rolling for international applicants. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
