Applied Web Development Associate Certificate - Part-Time is a certificate in Software Engineering programme taught at British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada. The programme runs for 3 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 500 per total for local students.
This certificate focuses on hand-coding and best practice for web development on both the front end and the back end, aimed at commercial-quality websites, including modelling business processes and communicating requirements ahead of design and development work. It builds understanding of documentation, planning, data modelling and web page design, along with a foundation in web scripting tools, leading to job-ready ability across designing, developing, deploying and managing websites at an industry standard.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires COMP 1002 or equivalent PC file-management knowledge, plus English and Math at a BC high-school Grade 12 level or equivalent; applicants must complete COMP 1850 before declaring intent to finish this program. 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. Participants must be able to make written and verbal presentations and work in groups, and BCIT recommends some prior post-secondary education or work experience in business or computing. The program's own page states it is not available to international students.
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.
