At Centennial College in Toronto, Canada, HD in Broadcasting - Film, Television, Digital Media and Radio is offered as a higher diploma in Media Studies & Mass Media programme. The programme runs for 6 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,005 per year (CAD 4,518 per year for local students).
The advanced diploma trains students in storytelling for film, television and radio alongside multiplatform digital production, combining creative and technical skills for the time-based media industry. Coursework covers developing and creating original story content, then managing and carrying out the production process to realise it, balancing the artistic and commercial sides of the industry while being exposed to a range of industry practices. Students study and practise storytelling techniques spanning fiction and non-fiction as well as client-based, live-to-air productions, gaining technical experience in HD broadcasting studios and digital film, television and multiplatform production. They take part in weekly television and multiplatform productions alongside digital video projects and student films, assembling a substantial body of finished work for a professional portfolio, and complete a fourteen-week full-time industry placement. Fourth-semester students also produce The Journal, a half-hour newsmagazine television show, rotating through roles such as producer, field production, writing, directing, shooting and editing.
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 equivalent. Applicants may substitute Centennial's own English Admission Test, and the page states that a score of 170 or 171 on that test is required for this program. Beyond the academic requirement, the page defers its general 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, and PTE Academic 58. Applicants accepted into the program are invited to submit a resume or complete an intake questionnaire after their offer and must attend a mandatory online Program Welcome Session before their start date. No minimum admission GPA 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.
