Admission Requirements of Canadian Colleges

Question

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How r u? I m interested in PG biotech & pharmacy technician in centennial colg.. Plz tell me req. For admission in centennial.. IELTS Band? Graduation percentage? Fees? N which intake better? N tell abt rule rules for parttime job..? N Abt off campus job? Waiting for reply..

Can i do over work during part time job?? How much doller/hr they pay? N during illegal over work? N how many days vacation after sem. End??

Answer

Admission Requirements

It is very easy to get admission in Canadian Colleges compared to Canadian Universities.    

• ·     For most of the courses they need IELTS band of 6 or more. 
• ·     Graduation marks requirement is pretty liberal. A good percentage of 50 percent or above will get you admission in most of Canadian Colleges. During my application process, I did realised that the admission requirements for Seneca college was little higher than Centennial College.
• ·    The fees ranges from $10,000 to $16,000 for most of the courses in Post graduate diploma courses (for students who has already graduated or done 3 years of college studies). 
•      The best intake to go for is fall intake (September intake). The reasons are many. The most important reason is you will have good class strength in your course, which will help you in networking. Such networks will help you further in accommodation search, job search and community activities. The other reason is, most of the cultural or academic functions/activities organised by student unions or college happens during this period. Such activities are usually missed by students who go for summer or winter intake.
•         For part-time job on-campus, you need to be full time registered student at the college, plus you should also have good standings (GPA score) in you enrolled courses.
•         For off-campus part-time job, you need to be full time student for atleast 6 months period, and then only you are eligible to work off-campus for 20 hours a week.
•         You will have vacation of 2 weeks in between semesters. Usually it will not be more than 20 days. If it is Christmas time, you might end up getting 25 days or more of vacation.
•      You can work for more hours during you off-campus work permit, but that would be illegal. The only way it is usually done by students is to work on cash jobs. Such cash jobs pay you less that legal minimum wage. Such cash jobs can fetch you some around $5 to $6 per hour.

If you are interested in doing Pharmacy Technician course, the fee would range in 17,000 around for 2 semesters. If you want to gain idea about the job market in fields of biotech and pharmacy, check websites like

-www.workopolis.com

-www.monster.ca

-www.jobbank.gc.ca

This are the most popular websites for job postings and job search in Canada.

The big employers for pharmacy technician are shoppers drug mart, Wal-Mart pharmacy. You can also look onto their websites for job postings and pay scales.

Here are some of the links that would be useful for more detailed information

http://www.centennialcollege.ca/adx/aspx/adxGetMedia.aspx?DocID=2247

http://www.centennialcollege.ca/Programs/ProgramOverview.aspx?Calendar=2010-2011&Program=3622

http://www.centennialcollege.ca/Programs/ProgramOverview.aspx?Calendar=2010-2011&Program=3621

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