Mohawk College offers PGCert in Cyber Security Analytics, a postgraduate certificate in Fire, Justice & Security programme in Hamilton, Canada. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 16,358 per year (CAD 2,453 per year for local students).
This postgraduate certificate pairs lab-based exercises with independent online study in cyber security analytics. Students learn to build, deploy and assess cyber security strategies and solutions across operating systems, networks and application software, address the cyber security needs internal stakeholders raise, and recommend processes for maintaining and deploying security solutions in line with policies, ethical standards and industry regulations. Coursework covers risk mitigation and auditing of information systems, project-management principles applied to information security processes, and the design and delivery of internal cyber security training. Students also monitor and analyze attacker tactics and techniques to design and implement vulnerability assessment procedures, and practice defending against simulated cyber attacks in lab exercises, while learning to communicate security policies and audit results across an organization.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Mohawk's program page requires an Ontario College Diploma, Ontario College Advanced Diploma, or degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field; other equivalent post-secondary experience or qualifications will also be considered. No minimum admission GPA is stated. Applicants whose first language is not English must demonstrate proficiency through one of: TOEFL 560 (83 internet-based), IELTS Academic overall 6.5 with no band below 6.0, Duolingo 115-120 with no band below 105, or completion of Mohawk's GAS-English for Academic Purposes (478) program. No portfolio, interview, work-experience or other admission condition is listed beyond the credential and language requirements.
Application Details
Start Date:Starts Mohawk lists on this program’s own page, checked 6 September 2026. Domestic applicants: September 2026 at Fennell Campus (FF); January 2027 at Fennell Campus (FF); May 2027 at Fennell Campus (FF). International applicants: May, 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:Mohawk publishes no deadline unique to this program; the dates below are the college-wide ones.
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; 1 October for a May 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.
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.
