Conestoga College offers Diploma in Welding Engineering Technician - Robotics, a diploma in Robotics & Automation programme in Kitchener, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 23,215 per year (CAD 5,124 per year for local students).
The two-year diploma develops welding skill through hands-on practical labs, covering blueprint creation and reading together with an understanding of metals and their characteristics, combined with a grounding in automated welding and programming welding robots. The program also covers safe work practice and methods for inspecting welds. The diploma includes the Level 1 learning outcomes for the Welder and Metal Fabricator-Fitter apprenticeship programs in Ontario, and an optional co-op stream adds one work term.
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 evidence follows Conestoga's general English-proficiency policy, and international credential holders need a course-by-course evaluation from a service such as ICAS or WES. To remain eligible for the optional co-op stream, students must achieve a minimum 65% average in Level 1 with no more than one dropped or failed course.
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.
