VCC Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing - Visit our centre for trades and technology today. VCC's automotive training centre continues to be a leader in providing the hands-on skills that today's employers demand. VCC's Centre for Transportation Trades has been meeting the training needs of industry since 1949. Vancouver Community College entry-level and apprenticeship programs are the best in the province - giving graduates the skills to succeed in a highly competitive job market. VCC has seven automotive training centres. They are: Auto Body Technician, Collision Repair Technician, Automotive Refinishing Technician, Refinishing Prep Technician, Automotive Service Technician, Heavy Duty Mechanic, and Commercial Transport Mechanic.


	- Meeting the training needs of industry since 1949 -


	Refinishing-Prep High School Transition Program (HS) ACE-IT (Accelerated Credit Enrolment In Industry Training)

This program is designed as a transition to industry training for secondary high school students. Grade 12 students come to VCC and take the Automotive Refinishing-Prep Program. They earn high school credits and a valuable VCC certificate at the same time. Students also earn credit toward their apprenticeship, putting them on a fast track to their career certification and a well paying secure job.

The five-month program offers training in a wide range of skills appropriate to today's advanced automobile refinishing-prep industry. The program features modern equipment and techniques in a state of the art facility. ...more about the ACE-IT program

About The Program:

Students will gain the tangible skills required to gain and retain entry level employment in the collision repair industry.
Graduates receive an industry-respected VCC certificate and possible credited time towards apprenticeship to complete the Trade Qualification (TQ).
Students gain as many as 20 secondary high school credits.

Time Well Used:

Students attend VCC's Broadway Campus for four months.
Two training days at ICBC's Material Damage Research and Training Centre.
Four weeks is spent in a sponsoring collision repair facility for work experience.
Students will access parts of the program via the internet for online training.

Program Starts

- Early February
- Late September

Application Procedure:
Candidates for this program are selected through a screening process by their respective school district. For more information, contact a representative in your school district or the VCC Collision Repair Department.

Applicants must have graduated from an appropriate career preparation program or meet the English and Math requirements at VCC. ...more

A fast track to career certification and a well paying secure job.

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VCC's Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing Prep programs are located at the Broadway Campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Students receive instruction in a setting designed to represent a typical automotive collision repair and refinishing facility using traditional and state of the art technology. Emphasis is placed on practical application of skills using a variety of equipment and methods on actual vehicles.

Automotive Collision Repair Department
1155 East Broadway Street Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5T 4V5
For general information: 604-871-7415 or e-mail us

VCC's Centre for Transportation Trades

continues to be a leader in providing the hands-on skills that today's employers demand. Our entry-level and apprenticeship programs are the best in the province - giving graduates the skills to succeed in a highly competitive job market. Visit our centre for trades and technology today.

VCC Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing - Visit our centre for trades and technology today. VCC's automotive training centre continues to be a leader in providing the hands-on skills that today's employers demand. VCC's Centre for Transportation Trades has been meeting the training needs of industry since 1949. Vancouver Community College entry-level and apprenticeship programs are the best in the province - giving graduates the skills to succeed in a highly competitive job market. VCC has seven automotive training centres. They are: Auto Body Technician, Collision Repair Technician, Automotive Refinishing Technician, Refinishing Prep Technician, Automotive Service Technician, Heavy Duty Mechanic, and Commercial Transport Mechanic.

Vancouver Community College offers a wide variety of automotive collision repair training programs including autobody and automotive repair, autorefinishing, collision/refinishing red seal programs, autobody apprenticeship programs and everything else you need to know to repair, fix and refinish a car. The VCC automotive repair training program is the leading autobody training and career school in British Columbia. Our automotive training programs will teach you the skills necessary to build your automotive career. After completion of our automotive and autobody repair training programs, you will be qualified to work as an Auto Technician and an Autobody Painting Technician. VCC is the best post-secondary autobody, auto repair and auto refinishing school in the lower mainland. Our automotive painting, custom car painting, and autobody repair training programs will prepare you for your automotive apprenticeship, and automotive repair and refinishing career. The VCC automotive collision repair training program also offers red seal certification training programs. These programs will teach you all you need to know about "how to repair a car?" and "how to refinish a car?" so that you can have a career in autobody repair and car refinishing. Switch careers and become an Autobody Technician, an Auto body Refinishing Technician or an Auto Detailing Technician after completing the VCC auobody, refinishing and detailing courses. The VCC automotive collision repair training programs will give you the automotive training and repair programs that you need for your automotive repair and refinishing career.