Offered by Cambrian College in Sudbury, Canada, Diploma in Heavy Equipment Technician is a diploma in Aerospace & Automotive Engineering programme. The programme runs for 4 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 19,347 per year (CAD 4,305 per year for local students).
The diploma provides extensive shop instruction on off-road equipment such as loaders, bulldozers, and scoop trams, with an emphasis on workplace safety throughout. Training covers servicing heavy equipment across basic maintenance, brakes, engine repairs, hydraulics, and electrical and electronic systems, for work in the mining or construction sectors. An optional paid co-op allows skills to be applied in a workplace setting, and required work-preparation sessions cover resume development and interview skills, alongside curriculum shaped around in-demand industry skills.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Cambrian's Heavy Equipment Technician page requires, for graduates of the current Ontario curriculum, a 30-credit Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature-student standing, with grade 12 English at (C) or (U) and grade 11 mathematics at (C), (U) or (M). The programme page flags additional conditions for international applicants without specifying them; Cambrian's institution-wide diploma-level English-proficiency scale, published on its admissions site, applies: IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band under 5.5, TOEFL iBT 80 (550 paper-based), PTE Academic 58, or Duolingo English Test 105-115. Applicants missing the academic requirement can take the college's free, self-paced Academic Upgrading; no GPA minimum, portfolio or interview is stated.
Application Details
Start Date:Intakes Cambrian lists for this program on its own page, read 6 September 2026: September 2026 (Schedule A fall term: Day 1 orientation 8 September 2026, classes from 9 September 2026, term ends 18 December 2026) and January 2027 (Schedule A winter term: Day 1 orientation 11 January 2027, classes from 12 January 2027, term ends 23 April 2027). Term dates come from Cambrian's published 2026-27 Academic Schedule A, which most programs follow and which is built from 14-week blocks with September, January and May starts. Not every program admits in every term, and the intakes above are the ones this program's page lists for the 2026-27 year; check the program page before applying, because an intake already under way may be closed.
Application Deadline:DOMESTIC APPLICANTS (Canadian citizens and permanent residents). Cambrian publishes no deadline that belongs to this program alone; what follows is the college-wide Ontario colleges cycle plus Cambrian's own term cut-offs, and it applies to every full-time program. Apply at ontariocolleges.ca. Applications received there by 1 February are given equal consideration - they are assessed together, and Ontario residents are preferred where a program is oversubscribed. After 1 February applications are handled first-come, first-served for as long as seats remain, and your file is judged on what has reached the Admissions Office by the transcript submission deadline. For entry in Fall 2027 the provincial cycle runs as follows: the ontariocolleges.ca application opened on 26 September 2026, colleges may issue offers from 1 November 2026, the equal consideration date is 1 February 2027, an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027, and tuition deposits fall in June 2027 on each college's own date.
COLLEGE-WIDE LAST DAY TO APPLY. Separately from the equal consideration date, Cambrian's 2026-27 Academic Schedule A sets a hard last day to apply for admission on Day 3 of each term - for this program's intakes that is 10 September 2026 for the fall 2026 start and 13 January 2027 for the winter 2027 start. To begin, all transcripts and documents must already be with the College and you must be ready to pay the deposit and start classes by Day 5 (14 September 2026, 15 January 2027 or 14 May 2027). The schedule prints this as an all-programs date and does not distinguish domestic from international applicants. The non-refundable deposit is due 15 June 2026 for the september start and 16 November 2026 for the january start.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS. Do not use the domestic ontariocolleges.ca form: apply on the OCAS international service (Cambrian's college code is CAMB, up to three program choices), or have an authorised agent file for you in Cambrian's own application portal. The 1 February equal consideration date is part of the domestic Ontario colleges cycle and Cambrian publishes no closing date of its own for international applicants; files are assessed individually as they arrive. Cambrian does say that some programs fill faster than others and advises acting early, and that the letter of acceptance carries an expiry date past which no student may enrol. Once the offer is accepted and fees are paid you need an Ontario Provincial Attestation Letter (PAL) before you can apply for a study permit, so leave time for that step.
