At Conestoga College in Kitchener, Canada, Cert in General Arts and Science - One-Year is offered as a certificate in Liberal Arts programme. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 2,750 per year for local students.
General Arts and Science - One-Year is a two-term Ontario College Certificate delivered in hybrid format at Conestoga's Kitchener - Doon campus, offering a flexible starting point for recent high school graduates and mature learners. Students strengthen writing, communication and research skills, critical thinking, academic reading and digital literacy while examining contemporary global and social issues. The certificate leads into the two-year General Arts and Science diploma and other Conestoga programs, with potential credit transfer to the University of Waterloo or other universities.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent, or mature-student status at 19 years of age or older, plus Grade 12 compulsory English at the C or U level or equivalent, or Conestoga's Preparatory Communications course (COMM1251). The admissions page defers its language-test score to the college's English Language Proficiency Requirement rather than stating one itself; for certificate programs that policy sets IELTS Academic 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5), TOEFL iBT 80 (no skill below 20), PTE Academic 53, or Duolingo 110. The page also states that a sound English background is important for success and is considered during admission selection, with unspecified minimum cut-offs applying. Applicants holding transcripts from outside Canada, or from institutions where English was not the language of instruction, must obtain a course-by-course credential evaluation from an approved service such as ICAS or WES before their application can be assessed.
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca (college code CONS): for the Fall 2027 intake the online application opens 26 September 2026, the equal consideration date is 1 February 2027, offers may be issued from 1 November 2026, and accepted offers must be confirmed by 1 May 2027; most oversubscribed programs stop accepting applications after 1 February 2027, though many programs remain open afterward. Conestoga does not publish a separate equal-consideration date for its January intake. International applicants apply directly to Conestoga and are assessed on a rolling, first-come, first-served basis until each program fills; no fixed international closing date is published. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
