Applied Data Analytics Certificate - Part-Time at British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada is a certificate in Data Science & Analytics programme. The programme runs for 5 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 500 per total for local students.
This certificate builds the technical foundations needed to construct data analytics systems, covering best practices for modelling and mining data, business intelligence tools, and visual analytics for decision-making applications. It leads toward creating, managing and using data analytics systems that support organisations in making informed, actionable decisions.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Applicants must complete COMP 1630 (Relational Database Design and SQL) before declaring this program, and are assumed to already have COMP 1002-level file-management knowledge on Windows, COMP 2010-level MS Office fundamentals, and a solid grounding in high-school pre-calculus (Math 12). The English-language requirement sits in BCIT's Category 2 band, met by English Studies 12 at 67% or equivalent, or by Category 2 international scores (IELTS Academic 6.5 overall with no band under 5.5, TOEFL iBT 86 with no section under 20, PTE Academic 60 with no skill under 60, or Duolingo 120 with no integrated subscore under 95), per BCIT's institution-wide English Language Proficiency page; applicants unsure of their spoken English are advised to take BCIT's COMM 0033 English Speaking and Listening Assessment first. The program involves significant group work, team technical reports and team presentations, and expects 10 or more hours of outside study per course per week. International applicants need a valid study permit and apply through BCIT's international process.
Application Details
Start Date:January, April and September
Application Deadline:BCIT publishes common credential application dates for most cohort-based diplomas, degrees and Flexible Learning routes, though each program's own page governs: for the January 2027 intake domestic applications run 1 February 2026 to 2 January 2027 and international to 1 November 2026; for the April 2027 intake domestic runs 1 May 2026 to 1 April 2027 and international to 1 February 2027; for September 2027 domestic applications open 1 October 2026 and close 1 September 2027, international 2 July 2027. Openings are 9:00 am and deadlines 11:59 pm Pacific Time, moving to the next business day on a weekend. Admission is not institute-wide rolling, but many programs work first-qualified-first-accepted and can fill before the posted deadline, and several programs, mostly in Health Sciences, trades and graduate studies, run entirely separate application tables of their own. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
