At Conestoga College in Kitchener, Canada, PGCert in Real Estate Development and Management is offered as a postgraduate certificate in Business Administration programme. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 16,809 per year (CAD 5,508 per year for local students).
The postgraduate certificate covers managing real estate development projects across their full lifecycle, building a foundation across construction and sustainable building practice, overseeing projects, sourcing suppliers and procurement, plus financial services relevant to development work. Students learn to oversee project quality throughout a development's lifecycle, applying this knowledge to help projects finish on schedule, within budget and in line with the original project vision.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry requires an Ontario College Diploma, Advanced Diploma, Degree, or equivalent, in civil engineering, urban planning, architecture, construction management, business or project management from an accredited college or university, or a combination of academic studies and at least three years of related industry or professional experience. International transcripts require a course-by-course credential evaluation through a provider such as ICAS or WES. Because this is a graduate certificate, applicants whose prior instruction was not in English must meet Conestoga's higher exception-tier requirement: IELTS Academic overall 6.5 (no band below 6.0), TOEFL iBT 88 (no skill below 22), PTE Academic 58, CAEL 70 (no sub-score below 60), or Duolingo 120. Applicants submit proof of the admission requirements, and final acceptance follows a review of that documentation.
Application Details
Start Date: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.
