Graduate Diploma – Heritage Resources Management at Athabasca University in Athabasca, Canada is a postgraduate diploma in Museum Studies programme. The programme runs for 2.5 years, delivered fully online. Tuition for international students is CAD 2,208 per credit (CAD 1,958 per credit for local students).
The Graduate Diploma – Heritage Resources Management at Athabasca University is an 18-credit online program, with 12 credits required through Athabasca University, and up to four undergraduate foundational courses may also be required depending on a student's background. The program includes a 400-hour practicum alongside core courses in heritage resources management and research methods, plus elective courses in specialized topics, and emphasizes general principles and approaches together with case studies covering varied heritage practices. Admission requires a baccalaureate degree and demonstrated competence in specific heritage areas. The university offers continuous admission, and full-time students can complete the diploma in as little as 2.5 years, with up to five years allowed. Credits ladder fully into the Master of Arts – Interdisciplinary Studies program, requiring only 15 additional credits to complete that master's degree. The diploma is designed for aspiring heritage practitioners who will work across different institutions and with varied types of heritage resources, and its practicum component gives it an applied, field-based character alongside the academic coursework.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires a baccalaureate degree, together with demonstrated competence in select undergraduate course topics covered in HERM 322, HERM 327, HERM 339, and PHIL/HERM 334. The program runs on a continuous admission basis, so applicants can apply at any time; students may also begin taking courses as a non-program student before being formally accepted into the diploma program. Courses follow an online paced-study format with defined start and end dates.
Application Details
Start Date:Continuous admission
Application Deadline:Athabasca University's undergraduate degrees, majors and university certificates admit on a continuous, rolling basis for both domestic and international applicants: there is no fixed application deadline, and most individualized-study courses start on the first of every month provided registration is received by the 10th of the prior month. The university's published admissions information does not distinguish international timing from domestic. The one fixed-cohort exception among this institution's programmes is the Post-LPN Bachelor of Nursing, whose September 2027 intake takes applications from Sept. 1 to Nov. 15, 2026, with all supporting documents due by Nov. 30, 2026, for both domestic and international applicants; the Post-RN Bachelor of Nursing, by contrast, remains open/rolling with monthly starts. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
