Admission Requirements

Diploma of Secondary Studies (DES), including:

• Secondary V Language of Instruction
• Secondary V Second Language
• Secondary IV Science
• Secondary IV Mathematics
• Secondary IV History

or academic background judged equivalent to the DES.

(Students with a DES missing any of the above subjects may be admitted, space permitting, but may be required to complete remedial courses.)

Specific ministerial admission requirements

• Secondary IV Mathematics: Cultural, Social and Technical Option 563-404
• Secondary V Physics: 553-504

Additional admission requirements

• Must be eligible to take College English 603-101 (Testing may be required)
• Must be eligible to take Basic French 602-100 (Testing may be required)
• All candidates must submit a 200-300 word letter of intent, handwritten. Candidates must address all of the following queries in their letters:
  • Please indicate your reasons for applying to the PRT program.
  • How do your personality traits, talents and interests match with the requirements of this profession?
  • What characteristics would make you a successful student in a self-directed learning environment such as ours?
  • What exposure or personal experience have you had with the profession such as work experience and/or volunteerism?
  • What would be your career plans once you graduate?

What else should you know?

• Following admission to the Physiotherapy Technology Program, all students must submit a health certificate and immunization record in order to complete clinical placements.
• To practice as a physiotherapy technologist, graduates of a college program must become members of the Ordre professionnel de la physiothérapie du Québec. There is no certification exam for graduates to become a member of the Ordre.

Application Deadline

• March 1 (for Fall semester)

The program begins in the Fall semester; new students are not admitted into the program in the Winter term.