British Columbia Institute of Technology offers User Interface and User Experience Design Associate Certificate - Part-time, a certificate in UX & Human-Computer Interaction programme in Burnaby, Canada. The programme is delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 500 per total for local students.
At a glance
Degree:Certificate
Field:UX & Human-Computer Interaction
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 500 / total
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
The User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) Design Associate Certificate provides you with core knowledge and skills to develop engaging and intuitive digital media experiences. You'll explore information architecture, user experience research, interface design, prototyping, and usability testing and inspecting. You'll acquire tools to help you generate creative, user-friendly digital solutions that support human behaviour within an interactive, computer-based environment. These skills are in high demand for the design, prototyping, and testing of products for the web, mobile, and other interactive media sectors. The program includes the option of completing a portfolio development course to enable students to display your UI and UX design skills to potential employers and clients.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The User Interface and User Experience Design Associate Certificate (part-time) sets BCIT's Category 2 English standard as its only stated entrance requirement: English Studies 12 at 67% or equivalent. Under the institute's own English Language Proficiency policy, applicants who sit a standardized test in place of the course instead meet Category 2 with IELTS Academic 6.5 and no band below 5.5, or TOEFL iBT 4.5 with every section at least 3.5 (legacy scale 86, no section below 20). The program page states no further academic prerequisite, GPA, portfolio, interview or work-experience condition, though it notes that individual courses within the certificate may carry their own prerequisites. Applications are accepted year-round across three intakes, January, April and September, with domestic and international applicants following separate deadline schedules for each intake.
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.
