LCI Education: leading development of a trilingual website for a global network of colleges

The client

LCI Education is a higher education group founded in Montreal. Its network includes 12 institutions, among them Le Collège LaSalle in Montreal, LaSalle College Vancouver, LCI Barcelona and LCI Melbourne, plus the LCI Language School. It operates in Canada, Spain, Australia, Morocco, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Tunisia and Indonesia.

The challenge

• Speak to audiences around the world: prospective students, parents, partners and businesses, in French, English and Spanish.
• Present a very broad offering without losing visitors: several countries, 7 faculties and 33 fields of study.
• Coordinate many contributors: an internal development team, external developers, a design agency and partners.
• Make content teams independent so they can publish news, programs and pages in all three languages.

Our role

• Development leadership: managing the internal development team and the external teams, from planning to launch.
• Collaboration with the design agency: turning mockups into reusable components, working directly with an external design firm.
• Design system: building, with partners, a shared component library (colours, typography, cards, carousels, forms) that keeps the site consistent across pages and languages.
• Content implementation: building the pages in Sitecore, among other tools, so LCI's teams manage their own content in all three languages.

What the site offers

Three languages, one structure

Every page exists in French (/fr), English (/en) and Spanish (/es), with a language switcher and language-specific URLs. Search engines index each version separately.

Find the right program fast

A program search sits right below the home page banner, and a "Looking for the right program?" shortcut stays available while browsing. Visitors can also explore by destination, by faculty (7) or by field of study (33), each with its own page.

Paths for every type of visitor

The site also guides more specific audiences: online learning, the study abroad program, business solutions for companies, a program for recruitment agents, and student and alumni portfolios.

News and reputation

A news section highlights student awards, international partnerships and new programs, building the group's credibility and supporting search rankings.

Under the hood

• Next.js (React): a modern, high-performance framework suited to a large, content-rich website.
• Sitecore: multilingual content managed by LCI's teams, without developers for every update.
• Design system: shared components that speed up new pages and ensure visual consistency.
• Multilingual routing: one URL per language (/fr, /en, /es) for clean SEO in each market.