Medicine Hat College offers Diploma in Criminal Justice, a diploma in Criminal Law & Justice programme in Medicine Hat, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,918 per year (CAD 4,974 per year for local students).
This diploma program at Medicine Hat College provides broad perspectives on issues of law, criminal behaviour, and the ways society responds to crime. Coursework spans criminal justice foundations, policing, corrections, criminal investigations, mental health, legal evidence, ethics, and leadership development, alongside skills in critical thinking, problem solving, writing and verbal communication, collaboration, conflict resolution, and professional resiliency and self-care. The program runs full-time over two years across four terms of required courses plus general and communication electives, delivered on campus at Medicine Hat. It suits students pursuing careers in law enforcement, corrections, and related fields; graduates have gone on to employment with agencies including the RCMP, municipal police services, Corrections, Immigration, Military Police, and private security providers.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: High-school and mature-student applicants need ELA 30-1 at a minimum of 60% or ELA 30-2 at 65%. The programme page sets no minimum admission average and no programme-specific language-test scores; Medicine Hat College's general international-admission standard applies, requiring IELTS Academic 6.0 with no band below 6.0, TOEFL iBT 79, PTE Academic 54, Duolingo English Test 105, or CAEL 60 with no component below 50. No interview, portfolio, criminal record check, or competitive-entry process is described for admission to the diploma itself; the page notes only that graduates pursuing law-enforcement careers should separately confirm hiring agencies' own physical and other standards. Fall intake only.
Application Details
Start Date:Fall
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants to Medicine Hat College apply through ApplyAlberta: for the Fall 2026 intake (September) applications opened October 1, 2025 and the domestic deadline was September 2, 2026; Winter 2026 (January) closed December 19, 2025, and Spring 2026 (May/June) closed May 1, 2026. International applicants face earlier fixed deadlines for the same intakes: June 1, 2026 for Fall 2026, October 1, 2025 for Winter 2026, and February 2, 2026 for Spring 2026. Several competitive programs, including the Paramedic degree and Social Work diploma, close ahead of the general deadline. MHC had not yet published Winter, Spring, or Fall 2027 dates as of this check; admission is not described as rolling. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
