Offered by British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada, Architectural and Structural CADD and Graphics Technician Certificate is a certificate in Applied Design programme. The programme runs for 40 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 7,300 per total for local students.
This certificate trains students in computer-aided drafting and design for architecture, construction and industrial settings, covering drafting, computer applications and graphic presentation. Its architecture option focuses on preparing architectural drawings and documents for building design and construction, leading toward entry-level roles in businesses needing design and drafting skills, residential construction companies, or architectural firms. Its structural option covers techniques for detailed drawings of structural components in reinforced concrete and structural steel, leading toward entry-level roles in engineering or architectural offices, or steel fabrication companies.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires English Studies 12 at 50% or equivalent — BCIT's Category 3 English band — and one of Pre-Calculus 11, Foundations of Math 11 or Workplace Math 11 at 50%, or a BCIT Math Trades Entry Assessment. Category 3 international-language scores are IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band under 5.0, TOEFL iBT 82 with no section under 19, PTE Academic 52 with no skill under 50, or Duolingo 105 with no integrated subscore under 80, per BCIT's institution-wide English Language Proficiency page. BCIT expects good hand/eye coordination, spatial visualization and technical aptitude, and offers places on a first-qualified basis as space remains. The program runs Architectural and Structural options, and applicants must declare which option/specialization they are applying to at the time of application.
Application Details
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.
