At Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, HD in Biotechnology - Advanced (Optional Co-op) is offered as a higher diploma in Biomedical & Laboratory Sciences programme. The programme runs for 6 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 19,167 per year (CAD 2,775 per year for local students).
The advanced diploma builds the scientific principles, techniques and skills required for work in industrial microbiology and chemistry, with applied study of microbial genetics, biotechnology applications, biochemistry, and clinical and environmental microbiology. Coursework trains students to identify and classify microorganisms from a range of sample types, calibrate instruments such as centrifuges, spectrophotometers, pH meters, HPLCs, gas chromatographs, PCR thermocyclers and gel electrophoresis equipment, then prepare the media and reagents needed to culture pathogenic microbes, design advanced microbiology and microbial genetics experiments, and isolate DNA for gel electrophoresis and polymerase chain reaction analysis.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This advanced diploma requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature-applicant status at 19 or older, plus Grade 12 English at the C or U level (or Centennial's own English Admission Test) and Grade 11 Mathematics at the M or U level or Grade 12 Mathematics at the C or U level, or Centennial's Engineering Math Skills Assessment for Admission. The program page defers its English-proficiency standard to Centennial's institution-wide requirement, which for advanced-diploma programs sets IELTS Academic 6.5 with no band below 6.0, TOEFL iBT 81 with Reading at least 19 and Writing at least 23, and PTE Academic 58. Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca; international applicants apply directly to Centennial. No minimum admission GPA or average is published, and the program's availability table does not currently list an open intake term.
Application Details
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.
