NAICS 6112Industry group · 4-digitlocal market1 market record

Community colleges and C.E.G.E.P.s

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing academic, or academic and technical courses and granting associate degrees, certificates or diplomas that are below the university level. The requirement for admission to an associate or equivalent degree program is at least a high school diploma or equivalent general academic training. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 506
Under 10 employeesA: 23%

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–47715%

5–9388%

10–19357%

20–497515%

50–996914%

100–199479%

200–4997615%

500+8918%

Of 506 Canadian establishments with employees, 23% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.

Where they areA

Ontario15531%

Quebec13026%

British Columbia6914%

Alberta398%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Educational Services, US · opened 2020

83.5%

1 year

70.3%

3 years

58.2%

5 years

43.1%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 611, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionmedium capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 611 Educational services

Public education is not a market. Private career colleges, tutoring and skills instruction are, with accreditation and student-loan eligibility as the real barriers.

Who sets the price: Public funding for the core system; the operator for private and vocational training.
The software it runs on: Student information and learning management systems; booking and billing for private instruction.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Operating businessScreened

Public College OperationStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost + regulatory drag

Colleges are a large and, until recently, fast-growing system: Statistics Canada reports total college revenues of $18.5 billion in 2023/2024, up 11.5% — the largest increase in more than two decades [A]. But a community college or CEGEP is created by provincial statute, governed by a provincially appointed board and funded by grant: public funding was $8.5 billion, 46.0% of revenue [A]. There is no application to become one. This is a buyer, not a market to enter, and the size bands say so — 89 of the 506 establishments employ 500 or more. The instructive part is what happened to the revenue an outsider might have reached. Fees rose from 32.9% of college revenue in 2020/2021 to 42.1% in 2023/2024, and to 64.5% in Ontario, on a record intake of nearly 100,000 new students, with most of that fee growth coming from international students in Ontario, who pay up to four times the domestic fee [A]. Private operators shared in that by teaching public-college credentials under partnership contracts — and both the volume and the partnerships depended on federal study-permit policy, which was tightened from 2024. The growth was a permit regime, not a market, and the public college held the credential throughout. The private side of this field — a career college under provincial approval — is screened as Private Trade School Operation at 611510, and corporate training at 6114. What is sold to colleges (student systems, contracted services) is screened separately at 611310.

NAICS 61124 vendors named10 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Student information and learning management systems; booking and billing for private instruction.

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 4

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
Ontario's 24 public collegesPrivate	Community colleges and C.E.G.E.P.s6112	—	1/4
Public-private partnership programme partnersPrivate	Community colleges and C.E.G.E.P.s6112	—	2/4
Quebec's 48 public CEGEPsPrivate	Community colleges and C.E.G.E.P.s6112	—	3/4
Registered private career collegesPrivate	Community colleges and C.E.G.E.P.s6112	—	4/4

Who works here

The occupations employed in Educational services, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Tagged to this industry

College and other vocational instructors

Concentrated in this sectorA

Secondary, elementary and kindergarten school teachers One industry 99.3%

Student monitors, crossing guards and related occupations One industry 98.7%

Managers in education One industry 96.9%

Assisting occupations in education One industry 95.6%

University professors and post-secondary assistants One industry 94.9%

College and other vocational instructors One industry 72.4%

Educational and employment counsellors Mostly one sector 65%

Technical occupations in libraries and public archives Mostly one sector 56.3%

Athletes, coaches, referees and related occupations Mostly one sector 30.8%

Program leaders and instructors in recreation, sport and fitness Mostly one sector 20.4%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical Across the economy 11.6%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 8.8%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 7.6%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 5.2%

Other technical trades Across the economy 4.4%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 4.3%

Survey, statistical and data entry occupations Across the economy 3%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 2.9%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 2.5%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 2.4%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 6112, and 2 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
61121	Community colleges and C.E.G.E.P.s	506	screened at 6112

Alongside it, under 611 Educational services

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
6111	Elementary and secondary schools	2,171	K-12 Student Information Systems
6113	Universities	237	Alumni Relations & Advancement Software Higher-Ed Student Information & Learning Management
6114	Business schools and computer and management training	1,280	Corporate & IT Training
6115	Technical and trade schools	872	Course Creation & Certification Platforms Private Trade School Operation
6116	Other schools and instruction	8,995	Driving, Music & Skills Instruction
6117	Educational support services	1,423	Tutoring & Coaching Business Software