Offered by Langara College in Vancouver, Canada, Digital Music Production Certificate is a certificate in Music programme. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 19,728 per total (CAD 12,495 per total for local students).
This intensive one-year full-time certificate trains modern producers and composers for work in recording, film, television, gaming, advertising and multimedia, serving both artists who write, record and produce their own material and those producing or scoring for others. Classes run five nights a week, Monday to Friday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm, across three 14-week terms with breaks between them, in cohorts capped at 16 students, beginning each September. Teaching takes place at Langara's 100 West 49th Avenue site in Vancouver plus sessions in professional recording studios. Students build their own mobile production studio and work with industry-standard software including Ableton Live, covering home studio production, professional studio technique, composition and scoring, recording and mixing.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Domestic applicants need BC Grade 12 graduation (or equivalent) or to be 19 years of age or older; international applicants need BC Grade 12 graduation (or equivalent), one full academic year of post-secondary study, or a minimum of 24 university credits. English proficiency may be met through Langara's own English course equivalencies and Grade 12 English equivalents, or by IELTS Academic 6.5 (minimum 6.0 per band), Duolingo English Test 110, TOEFL iBT Overall 90 (Writing 21, Reading 22, Listening 22, Speaking 21), CAEL Overall 60 with Essay 60, or ILAC Pathway 3.3 (Level 16). Applicants must submit a portfolio of original recordings (audio, video, or DAW-produced work) as MP3 files or links to SoundCloud, Spotify, or YouTube, and a 250-500 word letter of intent outlining their future plans and why they expect to succeed in the program; prior experience with an instrument, DJ'ing, or music production software is recommended but not required.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through EducationPlannerBC: for the 2027 entry cycle, applications open 1 February 2026 for Spring (January) entry, 1 June 2026 for Summer (May) entry and 1 October 2026 for Fall (September) entry, then stay open with no fixed closing date until each programme fills or classes begin. International applicants use the same EducationPlannerBC portal but face fixed closing dates: 30 September 2026 for Spring 2027, 31 January 2027 for Summer 2027 and 31 May 2027 for Fall 2027. A short list of limited-enrolment programmes - Nursing, Advanced Entry BSN, Nursing Practice in Canada, Applied Science for Engineering and the Post-Degree Diploma in Data Analytics - set their own, earlier deadlines that apply to both applicant types. Admission is otherwise rolling. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
