At Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada, User Experience Design Certificate is offered as a certificate in Applied Design programme. The programme runs for 8 months, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 22,275 per total (CAD 13,005 per total for local students).
Emily Carr University's User Experience Design Certificate is an eight-month, full-time program delivered on campus in Vancouver across two terms. The first term covers user research, product design strategy, prototyping, user interaction design, and responsive design; the second term builds on this with data-driven design, the business side of design work, the future of user experience, interaction and motion design, and team-based projects. Throughout the program, coursework is built around case studies and projects drawn from current industry practice, incorporating inclusive and accessible design and the use of AI in design work. The certificate is aimed at people with no prior UX experience, designers who want to formalize and extend their UX knowledge, and professionals from other fields — such as graphic design, accounting, healthcare, and computer science — who want to bring UX skills into their existing work. Students are expected to commit roughly twenty hours of scheduled instruction plus a minimum of twenty hours of self-directed work each week, and must maintain at least eighty-five percent attendance to complete the program.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The Full-Time UX Design Certificate's own programme page states its admission requirements directly and does not defer to a separate university-wide policy. Applicants must submit a portfolio through SlideRoom showing examples such as media, drawings, design work, prototypes, websites, collaborative projects, project management work or campaigns, each with a short explanation; accepted formats are images at 1024x768px/72dpi, video up to three minutes and 60MB, audio, or a two-page PDF. The page states no separate academic prerequisite and no English-language test score for this certificate. Applicants must create a SlideRoom profile, complete all application questions, and pay a $35 non-refundable application fee; admitted students pay a $1,000 non-refundable deposit. The programme handbook is cited as the authoritative source for full requirements and deadlines, and students must maintain at least 85% class attendance to pass the certificate.
Application Details
Start Date:January
Application Deadline:Emily Carr accepts undergraduate applications for the Fall 2027 (September 2027) intake starting 1 October 2026; the deadline to apply through EducationPlannerBC and submit transcripts is 15 January 2027, with a later 31 January 2027 deadline to upload the required portfolio through ECU's own Admissions Portal. The same dates apply to domestic and international applicants, though international admits face separate, additional study-permit timelines. Graduate programs (MFA, MDes) run a single annual Fall intake on their own cycle: applications open 1 October 2026 and close 25 January 2027, again identical for domestic and international applicants. Emily Carr publishes no rolling or continuous-admission option; all programs work to these fixed annual deadlines. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
