If you’re applying to a Continuing Education Certificate Program and you completed your education outside of Canada, you must have your education verified by a credential assessment. Your credential assessment must indicate that your education is equivalent to the program-specific admission requirements.

A Course-By-Course or Comprehensive evaluation is required. Your evaluation must include all courses taken, grades and credits achieved, qualification title, institution, and date of completion or conferral. A document-to-document evaluation is not sufficient and will not be considered. The credential assessment must be submitted by the application document deadline.

Accepted Credential Assessments

Michener does not assess international credentials but accepts assessments from ICAS or WES. See details:

Assessments provided by the Medical Council of Canada are not accepted.

Unable to Obtain International Transcripts?

If it is impossible to obtain official documents from any school(s), you should ask the Government Education officials in the country in which the credential was awarded to furnish an official statement testifying to the impossibility of obtaining records and a list of courses taken and grades received by the applicant in that school or university. Each case will be reviewed individually. In most instances, applicants may be required to demonstrate competency in each prerequisite by taking a Challenge Exam at a Canadian institution offering that prerequisite course.

WES Gateway Program

Internationally educated applicants that are unable to produce or have very limited proof of academic achievements as a result of adverse circumstances in their home country may consider obtaining credential assessment through the WES Gateway Program. This program is currently available for individuals from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, and Venezuela. To learn more about this program, please check the WES Gateway Program website .

All programs and courses in Continuing Education are conducted in English. Adequate knowledge of and proficiency in written and spoken English is essential for student success. Applicants to Continuing Education Certificate Programs can satisfy the English proficiency requirement by meeting ONE of the categories below.

1. Pass an English Language Assessment Test

You can take ONE of the English language proficiency tests listed below. Only tests taken in the last two years are considered valid.

2. Registered or Licensed Canadian Health Care Provider

If you are a registered/licensed Health Care Provider in Canada, you are exempt from providing an English Language Assessment. This exemption does not apply for applicants to the Bridging Programs.

3. Completed Two-Years of Full-Time Post-Secondary Education where English is a Dominant Language

Applicants whose first language is not English but have completed two (2) years of full-time education at a post-secondary institution in a country where the dominant language is English are exempt from completing an English language assessment. If you fall under this category, you must provide an official transcript (or WES/ICAS evaluation) as part of your application.

[1] Students will only be exempt from providing proof of English language facility from schools in these countries if the language of instruction of the school in question was English.