Now should you take it at BCIT or should you take it at CompTIA?
BCIT will get you a certain cachet perhaps when applying but I took two of the courses at BCIT…I took the A+ and the CCNA intro course. A guy I met there took the Linux course there and found that he was being asked by the teacher all the time about everything because the teacher didn't know shit about running Linux off the bash.
And even if you take their A+ you don't have full cert; you still have to go and pay CompTIA for their test which is a harder test to pass.
So I think the savings in money, the convenience of learning at home online and spending your dough on a good cisco lab kit plus some used parts to build a bunch of cheap computers up to use in networks you'll build with your kits will be a lot more fun.
Doing the labs in class was bullshit; I'd set up my network with 20 other guys fighting for space at the 4 server racks of switches and routers then go back to my computer at my desk and suddenly ti would all stop working; some bindy unplugged all my cables and fucked me up entirely…he was just lost, not hostile.
Get your own lab work at home in peace and just study your ass off.
Something good will come.
Get into a company that's a big server farm, not just as an office computer dude installing printers etc..