At Mohawk College in Hamilton, Canada, HD in Medical Radiation Sciences - Ultrasonography is offered as a higher diploma in Biomedical & Laboratory Sciences programme. The programme runs for 6 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 3,200 per semester for local students.
This advanced diploma combines online coursework with on-campus skills intensives and clinical placement to prepare graduates for general diagnostic medical sonography examinations and procedures. As a diagnostic medical sonographer, or ultrasound technologist, a graduate works independently and with health care teams to acquire and analyze complex images that assist physicians in diagnosing and managing a range of system disorders. The program includes three on-campus skills intensives of two to three weeks each at the Institute for Applied Health Sciences, clinical placements integrated with coursework in semesters three and four, and full clinical placements of four and then five days a week in semesters five and six, which may require relocation. On graduation, students are eligible to challenge the Sonography Canada certification exams for Canadian Registered General Sonographer status, a credential covering peripheral veins for DVT, the abdomen, male and female pelvis, obstetrics, and superficial structures such as the thyroid and scrotum.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:80.00 / %
Admission Requirements: Mohawk lists Ultrasonography as a late-release program with an equal consideration date of 1 February for the September start; delivery mixes online coursework with in-person practical and clinical work.
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 biology, chemistry and physics, each at the C or U level or equivalent. The averaged mark across all five required courses must be at least 80 per cent. Mohawk also publishes a mature-applicant route for people without the school credits.
ENGLISH, where it is not your first language: IELTS Academic 6.5 with no band under 6.0; or TOEFL iBT 83; or CAEL 60 with no sub-test under 50; or CLB 8 with no band under 8; or PTE 58 with no band under 51; or completion of Mohawk’s General Arts and Science - English for Academic Purposes program (478 or 278).
Application Details
Start Date:Starts Mohawk lists on this program’s own page, checked 6 September 2026. Domestic applicants: September 2026 at Online and In-Person. Mohawk’s page lists no international intake table for this program, so international applicants should confirm with Mohawk International that the program is open to them before applying. 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. 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. Mohawk lists no international intake for this program at the time of writing, so there is no international deadline to quote; contact Mohawk International before assuming a seat exists.
