Offered by Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, Diploma in Office Administration - Health Services (Online) is a diploma in Business Administration programme. The programme runs for 4 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,005 per year (CAD 2,775 per year for local students).
This diploma delivers administrative training for medical practices, clinics and other health care settings through online instruction, building both organizational skills and clinical support knowledge. Students study medical office procedures, diagnostic and laboratory procedures, anatomy for health administration, computerized OHIP billing, medical transcription, and electronic health record management. A two-day-per-week placement at hospitals and health care clinics complements the coursework with hands-on experience.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature-applicant status at 19 or older, plus a Grade 12 English College or University preparation course, or a pass on Centennial's English Admission Test. The programme page defers standardized-test scores to the college's general language-proficiency page, whose Standard Programs scale applies: IELTS Academic 6.0 with no band under 5.5, TOEFL iBT 67 with Reading at least 16 and Writing at least 23, PTE Academic 51 or higher, or Duolingo 105 or higher. No portfolio, interview, or minimum admission GPA is published. Progression to the final-semester field placement requires a cumulative GPA of at least 2.0 and a C grade in College Communications 2, and international students must obtain a Co-op Work Permit before that placement.
Application Details
Start Date:January and May
Application Deadline:Centennial publishes no application deadline for this program; what follows is the Ontario college cycle that governs it. Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for a program starting in Fall 2027 the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and applications arriving after it are still assessed, but first-come first-served while places remain. Across the Ontario college system the application opened on 26 September 2026, offers may be issued from 1 November 2026, and an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027. One $150 fee covers up to five program choices. International applicants apply directly to Centennial through its own international application process and are assessed on a rolling basis across the Fall, Winter and Summer intakes; the college publishes no fixed international closing date. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
