NOC 2021 · 41201 · TEER 1
Post-secondary teaching and research assistants
Unit group 41201 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
Note: Express Entry draws from this TEER level.
What this group covers
Post-secondary teaching and research assistants assist university professors, community college and CEGEP teachers and other faculty members in teaching and research activities at universities and colleges.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- college laboratory assistant
- college teaching assistant
- discussion group leader - post-secondary teaching assistant
- graduate assistant - university
- laboratory demonstrator - post-secondary teaching assistance
- laboratory supervisor - post-secondary teaching assistant
- marker - post-secondary teaching assistance
- post-secondary research assistant
- post-secondary teaching assistant
- tutor - post-secondary teaching assistant
- university laboratory assistant
- university research assistant
- university teaching assistant
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.