Douglas College offers Veterinary Technology Diploma, a diploma in Information Systems & Technology programme in New Westminster, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 4,100 per total for local students.
Training combines theory and practice across subjects such as workplace communications, pharmacology, nutrition, laboratory procedures, dentistry, radiography, anatomy and physiology, anesthesia, and medical and surgical nursing. Hands-on experience covers both small and large animals, whether on campus or at off-site locations such as animal-care centres, farms, stables and veterinary clinics. A co-op option is available, and graduates finish eligible to sit the Veterinary Technician National Examination.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: ACADEMIC: the general college admission requirements, secondary-school graduation or its equivalent, and a minimum age of 18 by the end of the first semester (so 18 by 31 December for a Fall start). Subjects: Biology or Life Sciences 11, or Biology or Anatomy and Physiology 12, at C+ or better; one further science at C+ or better from Biology 12 or Anatomy and Physiology 12, Chemistry 12, Geology 12 or Physics 12; and one mathematics course at C or better from Foundations of Mathematics 11 or 12 or Pre-calculus 11 or 12. With permission, university-transfer courses in those subject areas completed at C- or better can usually substitute for the school courses. FORMS THAT DECIDE SUITABILITY: a short Veterinary Technology entrance questionnaire, and a work experience log with a task observation form evidencing at least 80 hours of veterinary work experience. SELECTION: when qualified applicants outnumber seats, Douglas ranks them on the academic admission requirements and on suitability, and makes offers from the top down. AFTER AN OFFER: proof of the full three-dose rabies vaccine series, or a rabies titre test no more than 12 months old — this is a prerequisite for the veterinary technology courses that involve live animals, and any cost the province does not cover falls on the applicant. The programme page carries an international application block. International applicants must also clear Douglas's separately published international entry standard on top of anything listed here: for undergraduate study that is a final-year school average of at least 60 percent (or one of the college's age routes) plus Grade 11 Mathematics at C for most programmes, and for post-degree and post-baccalaureate study a bachelor's degree of at least three years with a cumulative average of at least 60 percent. The international English minimums are TOEFL iBT 83 (writing 21 or better for post-degree and post-baccalaureate credentials), IELTS Academic 6.5 with no band under 6.0 for those same credentials, PTE Academic 56, Duolingo 110, CAEL 60, CLB 8 in each skill, Cambridge CAE 75, Cambridge CPE 60, or EIKEN Grade 1.
Application Details
Start Date:Douglas runs three fifteen-week semesters a year: Fall from September to December, Winter from January to April and Summer from May to August. The programme page lists intakes in Fall (September). The Fall 2026 semester began on 8 September 2026 and Winter 2027 classes begin on 4 January 2027.
Application Deadline:Douglas publishes college-wide application windows rather than a single date for every programme, and the domestic and international timetables are different. DOMESTIC APPLICANTS apply on EducationPlannerBC. Applications for a semester open about eleven months ahead, at 9:00 a.m. on the first business day of the opening month: 1 October for the following Fall. Douglas labels this a limited-enrolment programme, so it sets no single fixed closing date: the round shuts when the intake fills, and the college’s own test is whether the programme still appears in the EducationPlannerBC drop-down list. Applicants are acknowledged in writing about two to three weeks after applying, and qualified applicants are then ranked against the programme’s published criteria. This programme publishes a real programme-specific deadline: Fall 2027 domestic applications open at 9:00 a.m. on 1 October 2026 and close on 15 January 2027. Fall 2026 applications are closed. INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS follow Douglas’s separate college-wide dates, not the domestic ones: the Fall (September) 2026 intake closed on 31 May 2026, Winter (January) 2027 closes on 30 September 2026, and Summer (May) 2027 closes on 31 January 2027. Limited-enrolment programmes can fill before those dates and open-enrolment ones last only while seats do, so Douglas advises applying early enough to leave room for a study-permit application. Read from the programme page and the college deadline pages on 6 September 2026; Douglas had not yet published Summer 2027 domestic closing dates.
