Conestoga College offers Diploma in Welding and Fabrication Technician, a diploma in Applied Professions & Services 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).
The two-year diploma covers the first two apprenticeship levels of theory and practice shared by Ontario's Metal Fabricator-Fitter and Welder trades. Students follow fabrication projects from computer-aided engineering drawing through the cutting and forming of piece parts to fitting, welding and inspection, working with conventional and computer-numerical-controlled equipment programmed using computer-aided manufacturing software. The diploma also builds skill in common arc welding methods, covering shielded metal arc, gas metal arc, flux cored arc and gas tungsten arc welding, with chances to attempt Canadian Welding Bureau qualification tests.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:60.00 / %
Admission Requirements: Direct entry requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), or equivalent, or applicant age 19 or older with mature-student status. Conestoga asks for Grade 12 compulsory English at C or U level, or equivalent, or its own Preparatory Communications (COMM1251), plus Grade 11 Mathematics at C, M (University/College) or U level, or equivalent, or Preparatory Mathematics for Trades (MATH1420), with a minimum cumulative average of 60% across the English and Mathematics prerequisites. Applicants whose prior instruction was not in English must demonstrate English-language proficiency; the programme page does not itself publish a domestic test-score table, so the evidence required follows Conestoga's general English-proficiency policy, and Canadian citizens or permanent residents with transcripts from outside Canada need a course-by-course credential evaluation from a service such as ICAS or WES. Basic computer literacy is expected, and graduates who maintain a minimum 70% average across all courses become eligible for apprenticeship-exemption examinations.
Application Details
Start Date:September
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.
