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Study in Montreal: schools, courses and expenses [2025]
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Study in Montreal: schools, courses and expenses [2025]

Gabriel Belandria
Gabriel Belandria

You know you want to travel to Canada, but you haven’t decided on the city yet, because you like many of them. If you want to decide as soon as possible, keep reading this article, and we will tell you why it’s the best option to study in Montreal.

Montreal is one of the most requested destinations by foreign students, since it’s a city with an excellent quality of life and good study opportunities. In a few words, it’s the ideal destination for studying and working abroad.

Keep reading this article and get to know the reasons why Montreal is a top destination, the courses you can enroll in, and the requirements for traveling to study for a season. Keep scrolling!

Thinking about studying and working in Canada? Let's dive into your options!

5 reasons to study in Montreal

SPOILER ALERT: this is one of the most beautiful and cosmopolitan cities in Canada, and for us, this is a good enough reason to study in Montreal; but this city has other characteristics that make students fall in love.

Here, we will tell you about them, but we won’t be responsible if you drive crazy to live in Montreal. Let’s get started!

Excellent quality of life

Montreal is the economic center of Quebec, which means that is seedbed for job opportunities. Moreover, crime rates are so low that you can go out without fear of being mugged or worse.

Also, Montreal is an ecological city in every sense of the word. The city is surrounded by nature and, therefore, the air is clean. Montrealers take environmental care seriously.

Affordable education

We have to admit that studying in Canada is not cheap… Especially if we talk about university, but Montreal is a city that has excellent prices.

The cost of living in Montreal is really low. Well, compared to living in Vancouver or Toronto, for example. This is, without any doubt, one of the characteristics that attract foreign students the most.

Housing fees, which worry many students, are moderate if you sacrifice being near the city center or the privacy of an apartment for yourself.

Besides, enrolling in a course in Montreal is quite affordable. Language courses, for example, are cheaper than in the United States.

But, if you want to know better what study options are available and how much they are, click our banner, choose the course that you are interested in, and request a free consultation with our academic advisors!

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Youthful and lively atmosphere

If someone tells you not to study in Montreal because it’s boring, they are c-r-a-z-y. Life in this city is not only excellent but also happy, dynamic, adventurous, and full of parties.

Montreal is a cultural city, year by year, festivals revolutionize the city. Moreover, the city center is a place of museums, art galleries, cinemas, theaters, historical monuments, and other spaces to satisfy travelers.

When you feel like it, you can get on a boat and explore the surrounding islands. Or you can sit tight and watch a hockey or a football match.

Nightlife in Montreal is active, too. Restaurants and bars offer the best dishes and drinks in the city; and similarly, clubs are open up to late at night so you can dance until dawn.

Opportunities to learn English and French in the same place

In Montreal, both languages are spoken and are recognized as official languages. This means that, during your stay, you can learn English and French.

Whether you take a course or learn while interacting with Montrealers, speaking 2 languages is guaranteed. Without a doubt, this will give you better opportunities in the academic and work environment in and out of the city.

Schools to study in Montreal

There are many schools to study in Montreal; nonetheless, we want to mention 4 academies that are GrowPro partners, so we guarantee their educational quality. Keep scrolling and meet them.

ILSC

If you are interested in learning English or French, ILSC is an excellent choice. This language school in Montreal offers different intensive and semi-intensive courses for learning any of these languages:

  • General courses: they are focused on the development of the most relevant skills of a language (speaking, writing, reading, listening, and vocabulary.)
  • Preparation programs for English certification exams: they help you meet the necessary linguistic competencies to pass tests such as the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).
  • English courses with business orientation: designed for acquiring communicative skills that will help you develop in the business environment.

LaSalle

LaSalle is one of the schools in Montreal in which you can study tertiary and university courses. This private college has more than 60 programs in professional areas such as art, literature, fashion, marketing, design, business, hairdressing, web development, pre-school education, and gastronomy.

Greystone College

Apart from LaSalle, you have Greystone College to study upper education programs. This school offers tertiary education courses in which you can study to be a professional in international business or digital marketing, either in English or in French, you can choose the language!

Trebas Institute

Trebas Institute is another school in Montreal in which you can study business, technology, event planning, and audiovisual production for cinema and television.

Courses that you can study in Montreal

You already know GrowPro school partners, let’s talk about the courses that you can take in each one; take notes:

General English and French part-time courses

These are the courses that cover all the language learning aspects for developing the 4 basic skills: talking, listening, writing, and comprehension.

The difference with intensive courses is that these programs cover topics in a smoother rhythm and you have more time for interacting with native speakers.

General English and French intensive courses

If you want to make the most of a short stay in Montreal, an intensive course is your best option. These types of programs take between 2 weeks to 3 months, so you can take them with a tourist visa.

With this course, you develop 4 skills of the language and acquire methods for learning English or French that will be super helpful for specific situations.

Preparation program for official English exams

With these English courses in Montreal, you study to take language certification exams like Cambridge levels or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

Thanks to those programs, you gain technical, academic, and formal vocabulary, more language fluency, and time management techniques for passing each test.

Professional training program with Career Program (Co-Op)

Professional training programs with Career Program (Co-Op) are technical courses taught in certificated colleges that include internship agreements.

This is the reason why these courses take approximately 1 to 3 years and are divided into 2 parts: theory and practice.

First, you study the theory. You take classes during the morning and you can work in Canada up to 20 hours weekly in any job you want.

Before finishing the course, you do an internship that, in most cases, is paid and is related to what you have studied.

You can study in Canada with these experiences! Fill the form and request a meeting with our Student Advisors.

Requirements to study in Montreal

If you have already decided to study in Montreal, you need to get a visa. This can be a tourist visa or a student visa depending on the time you want to stay in the city, but for you to understand better, read the following:

Tourist visa

Canada tourist visa is, in theory, one of the easiest visas to obtain. With this permission, you are authorized to study in Montreal for 6 months, moreover, you can travel to other cities when you have holidays.

Nonetheless, in some cases, you may not need a visa. Because, depending on your nationality, you can obtain an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA).

Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA)

An Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) is an electronic visitor visa with which you can study. It’s effective for 5 years, but you can stay in Canada for 6 months on each trip.

Student visa

If you want to study in Montreal for more than 6 months, you need a student visa for Canada. This visa is effective until you finish your course, and it authorizes you to work 20 hours weekly as long as you don’t enroll in a program for learning English or French.

Take into account that, to get this visa, you need to apply for the Quebec Acceptance Certificate (CAQ). Once the provincial Government is approved, you can apply for your study permit.

GrowPro helps you with all the paperwork! Select your experience to study in Montreal by clicking the link, then complete the form, and wait for one of our academic advisors to contact you and solve your doubts.

Working Holiday visa

With a Working Holiday visa, you can also study in Montreal! Well, only for 6 months, but it’s only effective for 1 year, so during the 6 months remaining, you can work without a limit of hours.

Expenses to study in Montreal

If you want to know how much it costs to study in Montreal, the answer is that depends on the course you choose:

  • English or French course: it can cost 380 CAD weekly, the amount depends on each school.
  • Professional training course: it can cost up to 10.000 CAD annually.

Apart from the value of the course, you have to add the cost of living in Montreal:

  • Housing: 550 to 900 CAD monthly depending if it’s private or shared.
  • Food: 250 to 350 CAD monthly.
  • Cellphone: 35 CAD monthly.
  • Transportation: 65 CAD monthly.

Student Atmosphere in Montreal

Montreal is one of the cities in Canada in which more than 35.000 international students live, so the student atmosphere is always present! Wherever you are, you can meet young people from all over the world.

Apart from that, Montreal offers a wide range of leisure activities. The city is full of museums and cultural activities that are organized each year (many of them are free) and has a variety of bars and clubs for every taste and budget.

Job opportunities for students in Montreal

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You have the possibility to work in Montreal to pay for your stay. During the academic period, 20 hours weekly and, during school holidays, 40 hours weekly.

However, there are some conditions that you have to take into account, like that you can work if you travel with a student visa when you enroll in an upper education course.

If you are traveling with a Working Holiday visa, you can work in Montreal for unlimited hours no matter the course you choose.

Most common jobs for students in Montreal

If you don’t have further academic studies, the best thing you can do while you study in Montreal is look for an unqualified job. These jobs are easier to get:

  • Library assistant: a lot of colleges and universities offer jobs to their students.
  • Waiter: in a day you can earn a lot with tips.
  • Salesperson in clothing stores: this job requires good language skills. Keep it in mind!
  • Cook and kitchen assistant: if you are passionate about cooking, this job is good for you.
  • Dog walker: with this job, you can earn some money daily and make some furry friends.

These jobs are good for you since they are flexible and help you earn good money, working hours in Montreal are paid 15.25 CAD. But there are many unqualified jobs with higher salaries.

Job search advice in Montreal

If you want to work in Montreal, use these tips when you start your search in the city:

  • Adapt your curriculum to the Canadian standard.
  • Browse the most used job portals in Canada like Indeed, Job Bank, and Canadajobs, since there are many good offers.
  • Network. Having the best contacts is a starting point for meeting the best employers in the city.

You can study and work in Montreal with GrowPro experiences!

Don’t overthink it, Montreal waits for you!

In GrowPro, we have more than 10 years of experience advising more than 35.000 students from all over the world, so we are your allies to help you live this adventure in Canada, let us help you with all the arrangements.

Our study experiences in Montreal include these services:

  • Advice for choosing a school and a course based on your objectives and budget.
  • Paperwork: inscription, student visa application, and medical insurance contract. Yes, we are in charge of everything!
  • Welcome session in Montreal.
  • Passes to events we organize every month for our student community in Montreal.

The best part is that they don’t have an extra cost, you only pay for the course and the visa amount.

If you want to know more, complete the form below. In a few days, one of our academic advisors will contact you to give you information about schools, prices, and requirements to study in Montreal.

We will be happy to help you, future grower!

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