British Columbia Institute of Technology offers Applied Database Administration and Design Associate Certificate - Part-time, a certificate in Information Systems & Technology programme in Burnaby, Canada. The programme runs for 18 months, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 500 per total for local students.
This certificate covers database design, SQL programming, data modelling, business analysis and data quality, with hands-on labs in managing data recovery, security, governance, access control and policies in the cloud. It suits mature students who already have other post-secondary education and work experience and want to validate that knowledge, or those with existing connections to potential employers, and leads to designing and building data systems on-premises or in the cloud, creating and managing database applications, and hand-coding in SQL and other industry tools.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires COMP 1002 or equivalent computing knowledge, plus BC Grade 12 English and Grade 12 Math or their equivalents; each course within the program also carries its own specific prerequisite or equivalent-knowledge requirement. 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, alongside solid English reading, writing and speaking skills expected throughout the program. BCIT designs this associate certificate for mature students who already hold other post-secondary education and work experience. The program's own page states it is not open to international students. Flexible Learning intakes run in January, April and September.
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.
