At Mohawk College in Hamilton, Canada, Diploma in Cardiovascular Technology is offered as a diploma in Biomedical & Laboratory Sciences programme. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,268 per year (CAD 1,053 per year for local students).
This diploma prepares students to assist physicians with cardiac diagnosis, with outcomes mapped to the national competency profile set by the Canadian Society of Cardiology Technologists. Students learn to perform cardiovascular tests including electrocardiography, Holter monitoring, exercise stress testing, pacemaker and cardiac device follow-up, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and ECG event and loop monitoring. The program holds accreditation through Accreditation Canada's EQual program.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Mohawk marks Cardiovascular Technology as a competitive program and a late-release program. Equal consideration dates on this program's page: 1 February for the September start and 1 June for the January start.
ACADEMIC ENTRY: an OSSD or its equivalent (Mohawk Academic Upgrading or GED) including Grade 12 English at the C or U level or equivalent; a Grade 12 maths credit, either MCT4C (Mathematics for College Technology) or any U-level Grade 12 maths; and Grade 11 or 12 physics, biology and chemistry, each at the C or U level or equivalent - three separate sciences, not a choice among them. Mohawk also publishes a mature-applicant route for people without the school credits.
ENGLISH, where it is not your first language (Mohawk lists these as stand-ins for the Grade 12 English credit, and they apply to domestic and international applicants alike): IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band under 5.5; or TOEFL iBT 80 (paper-based 550); or Duolingo 105-110 with no band under 100; or finishing Mohawk’s General Arts and Science - English for Academic Purposes program (478).
Application Details
Start Date:Starts Mohawk lists on this program’s own page, checked 6 September 2026. Domestic applicants: September 2026 at Institute for Applied Health Sciences at McMaster (IH); January 2027 at Institute for Applied Health Sciences at McMaster (IH). International applicants: September, January intakes. Mohawk runs a Fall term from September, a Winter term from January and a Spring/Summer term from May; not every program runs every term, and the seat status shown beside a start (open, waitlist, closed) moves as intakes fill.
Application Deadline:This program’s own page prints the equal consideration date, so the date below is the one Mohawk states for it.
DOMESTIC APPLICANTS (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through ontariocolleges.ca. Equal consideration date: 1 February for a September start; 1 June for a January start. Applications that reach Ontario Colleges by then are read together in the first round of offers. Applying afterwards is still allowed, but remaining seats go first-come, first-served, and a competitive program is usually full by that point. Where a program draws more qualified applicants than it has seats, Mohawk ranks them on the average of their highest senior-level final grades in the required courses, and offers go to Ontario permanent residents first, then residents of other Canadian provinces and territories, then international applicants. Mohawk flags this as a late-release program, meaning its offers go out later than the general schedule rather than from the usual first-round date.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS (citizens of another country without Canadian permanent residence) do not use the equal consideration dates. They apply through the OCAS International Application Service, which sets a separate deadline for each intake rather than one annual date; the current list is on Mohawk’s international apply page. For the January 2027 intake, applications opened in February 2026 and close in November 2026. Files arriving after a deadline are judged on remaining program capacity, visa status and study-permit processing time for the applicant’s region, and Mohawk states it may cap applications or impose deadlines by region. The CAD 100 application fee is non-refundable and covers up to two program choices starting in the same August-to-July academic year.
