Professional Accounting Post-Degree Diploma is a postgraduate diploma in Accounting programme offered by Coast Mountain College in Terrace, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 13,909 per year (CAD 3,274 per year for local students).
The two-year post-degree diploma builds on a prior degree with courses specific to an accounting career, including management information systems, data analytics and business computing, building computer skills for a changing field. Completion covers most of the prerequisites for the Chartered Professional Accountants Professional Education Program, including for those whose earlier degree was outside accounting, without requiring a full accounting degree. The program is aimed at those seeking to expand into accounting work or pursue a professional accounting designation.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Coast Mountain College's Post-Degree Diploma in Professional Accounting requires an accredited Bachelor's degree of at least three years from a recognized institution, English Studies 12, English First Peoples 12, or equivalent, and either Foundations of Math 11 or Pre-Calculus 11 (or equivalent) or a completed post-secondary math course such as Calculus, Statistics, or Algebra. The program does not state a minimum admission GPA. For English proficiency the page defers international applicants to the college's dedicated English Language Proficiency Requirements page rather than stating scores itself; per the institution's general admission standards that page applies tiered minimums such as IELTS Academic overall 6.0, TOEFL iBT overall 72-80, PTE Academic overall 52-57, CAEL overall 50-60, or Duolingo overall 105-115. No portfolio, interview, or work-experience condition is stated, though the page cautions that admission to an intake does not guarantee completion within two years.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Coast Mountain College runs one common application calendar across its campuses rather than a single date per programme. Domestic applicants: for the 2026-27 academic year, applications opened 1 October 2026; the final day to apply is 24 December 2026 for Winter (January 2027) entry, 23 April 2027 for Spring/Summer 2027, and 30 August 2027 for Fall 2027. International applicants share the same opening date but face earlier cut-offs: 1 October 2026 for Winter, 1 February 2027 for Spring/Summer, and 1 June 2027 for Fall, and some high-demand programmes may close sooner. Trades and other varying-start programmes are judged against their own start dates (international due three months, domestic one week, before start), and continuous-intake programmes accept applications year-round. No single closing date exists beyond these cut-offs. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.