Offered by Humber College in Toronto, Canada, PGCert in Professional Book Publishing is a postgraduate certificate in Publishing programme. The programme runs for 1 semester, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 5,689 per semester for local students.
This graduate certificate at Humber Polytechnic's Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design is delivered fully online over an accelerated, one-year timeline and combines creativity with publishing-industry business skills. Students study all facets of modern publishing, from acquisitions and editorial work to sales and digital rights, and complete a capstone project intended to reflect real publishing-industry work. The program is designed to prepare graduates for roles across contracts, design, editorial work, copyright and intellectual property, literary agenting, sales, marketing and publicity, self-publishing, and publishing technology. Its accelerated online structure lets students complete the program's coursework within a compressed timeframe. It suits students with an interest in books and publishing who want practical, industry-facing training in both the creative and commercial sides of the field.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Entry requires a bachelor's degree, advanced diploma, diploma, or equivalent. The English-language requirement here is Humber's institution-wide English Language Proficiency Policy at the Graduate Certificates and Master's Degrees band: IELTS Academic overall 6.5 with no band below 6.0, TOEFL iBT 88 with a minimum of 22 in each skill, PTE Academic 61-64, Duolingo English Test 125 or above, or CAEL 70 overall. A Canadian citizen or permanent resident who was schooled outside Canada must first have their credentials assessed before those courses can count toward admission - ICAS course-by-course for a secondary-school transcript, or WES for post-secondary study.
Application Details
Start Date:May
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens, permanent residents, protected persons) apply via ontariocolleges.ca. For Fall 2027 entry, applications open early October 2026, with Humber offers beginning as early as November 2026. Highly competitive programs use an equal-consideration deadline of 1 February 2027: applications received by then are assessed together with no earlier offers; later applications are reviewed first-come, first-served while space remains. Fall 2027 offer acceptance is due 1 May 2027. International applicants apply directly through the Humber Web Application and are reviewed on a rolling basis, up to one year before their intended start term; no fixed international deadline is published, and applying for a study permit 3-5 months before the start date is recommended. No separate Winter/Spring institution-wide dates are published. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
