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Since 1960, the Blanche Macdonald Centre has offered the highest quality of Professional career training in Makeup Artistry, Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Hair Design, Esthetics/Spa Therapy and Nail Technology. Considered to be the premium industry leader, the college graduates over one thousand students per year and has two campuses in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The Downtown campus Robson near Vancouver Public Library, at 18,000 square feet, features a new multi-million dollar facility that houses the Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising faculties, the Professional Hairstyling program with numerous Hair studios and theory rooms and a 24 station Apple Macintosh Computer Lab.

The Uptown Campus at City Square is approximately 30,000 square feet and is situated in an award-winning, architecturally spectacular mall at City Square. This Uptown campus houses the departments of Professional Makeup Artistry, Esthetics/Spa Therapy and Nail Technology, a full Apple Macintosh Computer Lab and administrative offices.

The Blanche Macdonald Centre is a fully registered, bonded and accredited institute, recognized by the provincial government of British Columbia, Canada, under the authority of the PCTIA (Private Career Training Institutions Agency).

The College is a wholly owned division of Pacifique Riche Enterprises Ltd. (doing business as Blanche Macdonald Centre).


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Courses / Programs
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