Building Design and Architectural CAD Associate Certificate - Part-time is a certificate in Applied Design programme offered by British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, Canada. The programme runs for 7 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 500 per total for local students.
The certificate builds competency in housing design and presentation graphics, aimed at people already working in home design offices, material supply, retail, real estate marketing, or municipal offices, as well as those seeking to move into the field. Coursework spans construction, architectural planning, estimating, residential landscape design, and architectural CAD rendering.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The program states English Studies 12 at 50% or equivalent — BCIT's Category 3 English band — as its entrance requirement, met alternatively by Category 3 international scores (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 recommends, without requiring, a Grade 10 education or equivalent. Individual courses carry their own prerequisites: DRFT 1000 has none, BLDC 2000 requires 50% in DRFT 1000, BLDC 2005 requires 50% in BLDC 2000, and BLDC 2400 and BLDG 2800 both require existing drafting skills and familiarity with Windows. The program's own page states it is not available to international students, and runs Flexible Learning intakes 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.
