At Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, Canada, Environmental Protection Technology Diploma is offered as a diploma in Information Systems & Technology programme. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 2,500 per total for local students.
Graduates develop the skills to offer professional advice across subjects such as contaminated site investigation and remediation, compliance auditing, air, soil, and water pollution monitoring and prevention, waste reduction and reuse strategies, hazardous and non-hazardous waste management, and environmental impact assessment. This skill set rests on integrated, hands-on training that develops applied knowledge across the physical and life sciences, covering statistics, physics, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, and general biology.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The Faculty requirement here is KPU's undergraduate English Proficiency Requirement, set out in the university's own admission requirements. On top of it this programme asks for: Level E1 of KPU's Mathematics Alternatives Table, which is met by Pre-Calculus 11 at C, Foundations of Mathematics 11 at C+, IB Mathematics Analysis and Approaches SL or Applications and Interpretation SL at 3 (treated as C+), MATQ 1089 at C+, or a Math Placement Test score of 46 or above; and Chemistry 11 at C+ or better, or an equivalent. Applicants missing either must obtain the equivalent before they can be admitted — there is no conditional route around it. The two-year diploma includes two four-month work semesters, so plan for the co-op scheduling published at kpu.ca/science/environment. KPU's calendar page sets out these requirements without separating domestic from international applicants, so the same standard applies to both.
Application Details
Start Date:The University Calendar records that intakes for this programme have been postponed, so it currently has no start date on offer; its calendar entry otherwise lists Fall (September) as its only start term. Under the Senate-approved 2026-27 schedule the Fall term runs 8 September to 17 December 2026.
Application Deadline:KPU's University Calendar records that intakes for this programme have been postponed, so KPU is not running an application window for it and the Limited Intake deadlines it publishes for other programmes do not apply here. Check the programme page in the University Calendar, or contact the faculty, before you apply.
