Cert in Electrical Pre-Apprenticeship at Yukon University in Whitehorse, Canada is a certificate in Trades programme. The programme runs for 18 weeks. Tuition is CAD 3,275 per total for local students.
This 18-week Electrical Pre-Apprenticeship certificate at Yukon University is delivered across several Yukon communities, including Whitehorse (Ayamdigut), Dawson City, Old Crow, Haines Junction, Carmacks, and Watson Lake, combining hands-on and theoretical instruction. The program begins with a ten-week hands-on block covering the safe use of electrician-specific hand and power tools and code-compliant wiring methods, alongside theory in DC circuit analysis, Ohm's Law, and an introduction to the Canadian Electrical Code, Part 1. Students then move into an eight-week Level 1 apprenticeship training course delivered through NAIT's online program, which requires registered apprentice status. The program suits people with manual and mechanical aptitude who want a structured entry point into the electrical trade across the territory's communities. Graduates are positioned to continue toward becoming licensed electricians, an occupation employed across industries such as mining, oil and gas, construction, and film and television production.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry requires Math 11 or equivalent and English 11 or equivalent. Applicants must not be colour-blind, for trade-hiring purposes, and must show good manual and mechanical ability and supply their own suitable work clothes and steel-toed work shoes. The programme page states no separate international language-test scores for this trades certificate; Yukon University's general policy requires every applicant to demonstrate English language proficiency, but no specific test tier is published for pre-apprenticeship certificates. The 18-week programme, made up of a 10-week hands-on block followed by an 8-week Level 1 apprenticeship block, begins in August 2026.
Application Details
Start Date:August 2026
Application Deadline:Yukon University's Canadian and permanent-resident applicants face no fixed intake-wide closing date: Fall 2026 applications are now closed, and applications for Winter (January) 2027 and Fall (September) 2027 open on 1 October 2026, staying open on a rolling basis until each intake fills. International applicants follow a firmer published 2027 cycle with set open and close dates: Winter 2027 runs 2 February 2026 to 3 August 2026 (deferral deadline 7 December 2026), Spring 2027 runs 3 August 2026 to 1 December 2026 (deferral 1 April 2027), and Fall 2027 runs 1 October 2026 to 1 April 2027 (deferral 1 August 2027). A few limited-entry programs, including Practical Nurse, Bachelor of Social Work and YNTEP, set their own single annual deadline instead of following this general cycle; all other programs admit on a rolling basis. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
