Private career college in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, offering a two-year massage therapy diploma program.
Vicars School of Massage Therapy Ltd has been keeping promises to students and clients since 2001. It is a private career college. The school's vision is for its program to be a positive and challenging experience that prepares graduates to be effective and successful massage therapists. Vicars School promises to always treat its students with respect.
Vicars School offers an accredited two-year RMT diploma program that only runs full-time. The program is CMTCA-accredited and MTAA-approved. Its blended learning combines online work with hands-on training, with students on campus four to six days a month. Blended learning has been the school's core offering for 25 years. The diploma requires 330 hours of supervised clinic experience with real clients.
Vicars School has a Calgary campus at 101 - 200 Country Hills Landing NW, Calgary AB T3K 5P3, and an Edmonton campus at 2828 Calgary Trail NW, Edmonton AB T6J 6V7. Facilities include massage training classrooms with a hands-on massage lab, student lounge and kitchen areas, and in-class teaching clinics. The Calgary campus also has a student clinic with on-campus shifts. The building is wheelchair accessible, with free parking, public transit access, and off-street bicycle pathways.
Vicars School was the first private career college in Alberta to earn the highest level of accreditation from the Canadian Massage Therapy Council for Accreditation. It earned five-year accreditation, a rating no other private college in Alberta has achieved. The school is a Massage Therapist Association of Alberta Approved School. Graduates can apply directly to write registration exams in BC without a prior learning assessment.