Conestoga College offers Diploma in Journalism, a diploma in Media Studies & Mass Media programme in Kitchener, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,477 per year (CAD 2,750 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 2,750 / year
International tuition: CAD 15,477 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Factual reporting plays a critical role in society today. In Conestoga College's two-year Journalism program, you will learn the fundamentals of research, interviewing, and writing with the legal and ethical standards required to reveal the truth within a story. This program will allows you to develop the technical skills needed to excel in digital news reporting and storytelling across traditional, online and mobile platforms. You will work within the Conestoga College's digital news environment Spokeonline.com, reporting stories from your community. In addition to first-hand experience with the challenges and deadlines of real-world production cycles, you will receive in-depth training in story development, live reporting, feature reporting, opinion writing, photojournalism and long-form reporting approaches, such as documentary production and magazine writing. You will be exposed to multiple traditional and emerging career avenues that rely on strong journalism skills, and develop the advanced skills needed to create trusted news content.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca using Conestoga's college code CONS. The Journalism diploma requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature student status for applicants 19 or older by the program start. The stated English prerequisite is Grade 12 Compulsory English at C (70%) or U (60%), or equivalent, or completion of Conestoga's own Preparatory Communications course (COMM1251). Applicants holding transcripts from outside Canada, or from institutions where English was not the language of instruction, must have those transcripts assessed by a recognised credential-evaluation service such as ICAS or WES and must separately demonstrate English-language proficiency under Conestoga's general language-requirements policy; the program's own admissions page does not publish a specific IELTS, TOEFL or PTE score table, referring instead to the college's institution-wide standard. No portfolio, interview, minimum grade average beyond the English requirement, or work-experience condition is listed.
Application Details
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.
