Diploma in Game - Art at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Canada is a diploma in Media Studies & Mass Media programme. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,477 per year (CAD 7,356 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Diploma
Field:Media Studies & Mass Media
Duration: 2 years
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 7,356 / year
International tuition: CAD 15,477 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Game - Art is a two-year Ontario College Diploma at Conestoga's Kitchener - Doon campus, in the heart of the Kitchener-Waterloo tech hub, for artists targeting the game industry. The curriculum moves through 3D modelling, 2D asset creation, texturing, lighting, environment architecture and story design while covering the production pipelines used in professional studios. Students graduate with a portfolio built on industry-standard hardware and software.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Direct 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 (65%) or U (55%) level or equivalent, or Conestoga's own Preparatory Communications course (COMM1251). The program's admissions page does not itself quote a language-test score and instead points applicants to Conestoga's institution-wide English Language Proficiency Requirement; that policy, published on the registrar's terms-and-definitions page, sets IELTS Academic 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5), TOEFL iBT 80 (no skill below 20), PTE Academic 53, or Duolingo 110 for diploma-level programs. Canadian applicants with non-Canadian transcripts must obtain a course-by-course credential evaluation from an approved service such as ICAS or WES. Admitted students must also purchase a required game-art kit, with cost details confirmed after enrolment; no portfolio or interview is required.
Application Details
Start Date:Intake months: January and September. Start dates listed by Conestoga on 6 September 2026, for domestic and international applicants alike: September 2026 and January 2027 at Kitchener – Doon. An individual campus intake may already be closed.
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.