Certified Dental Assistant Certificate is a certificate in Health Sciences programme taught at Camosun College in Victoria, Canada. The programme runs for 10 months, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 22,587 per total (CAD 9,500 per total for local students).
Delivery is practical and hands-on, simulating a working dental office rather than a conventional classroom, and includes a placement in an actual dental practice. Coursework prepares students to work as a collaborative member of a dental care team, covering chairside assisting alongside direct client care responsibilities within the clinic setting.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: One of English 12 at C or the Camosun English 12 alternative at C; one of Anatomy and Physiology 12 at C or its Camosun alternative at C; plus Grade 12 graduation or its equivalent. Proof of every requirement is submitted with the application, and where a letter grade is named you need that grade or better. Where the requirement names a secondary-school course, Camosun accepts its own equivalent upgrading course instead, and a C in that Camosun course covers a C+ requirement in an English 12 prerequisite. Camosun sets aside priority seats for qualified Indigenous applicants in its Health Sciences and Human Services programmes for part of each year, under a process approved by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS must clear Camosun's general college English standard on top of anything listed here — IELTS Academic 6.0 with no sub-score under 6.0, TOEFL iBT 78 with no sub-score under 19, PTE Academic 54 with no sub-score under 50, Cambridge C1 Advanced 174 with no sub-score under 169, or CAEL CE 60 with no component under 60, taken within the past two years — because the college states that its general standard applies even where a programme page shows a lower one.
Application Details
Start Date:One start a year, in September (Fall term). Limited (seated) enrolment: the cohort is capped and a waitlist is normally opened once qualified applicants outnumber seats.
Application Deadline:Limited-enrolment (seated) programme: Camosun publishes an opening date but no closing date, and applications can be shut at any point once the waitlist outgrows the seats on offer. DOMESTIC APPLICANTS: the Fall 2027 (September) application window opens 1 October 2026. Offers are issued first-qualified, first-served — for September-start seated programmes they begin going out in February — so apply as early as you can and check Camosun's Program Availability page for the live status before you apply. INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS have a separate deadline of 1 June for the September (Fall) start. It holds only while seats remain, so a popular intake can close sooner; a later application may still be looked at if seats are open and there is time to obtain a study permit. Seats in a capped programme often go before that date, so contact International Admissions to confirm one is free. Domestic and international applicants both apply online through EducationPlannerBC (apply.educationplannerbc.ca/camosun).
