At Red River College Polytechnic in Winnipeg, Canada, Cert in Welding is offered as a certificate in Trades programme. The programme runs for 1 year. Tuition for international students is CAD 20,938 per year (CAD 6,820 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Certificate
Field:Trades
Duration: 1 year
Local tuition: CAD 6,820 / year
International tuition: CAD 20,938 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This one-year certificate program, delivered on a course-based registration basis, teaches four core welding processes: oxyacetylene, arc, tungsten inert gas, and metal inert gas welding, alongside welding theory, mathematics, science, industrial communications, and blueprint reading. Most class time is spent on practical shop work, with student performance assessed through theory tests and practical work graded to government and industry standards. Students have the option to pursue Canadian Welding Bureau certification in two processes for an additional fee. The program is delivered full-time, in person, at the Notre Dame and South Winnipeg campuses, and includes a work placement component. It is not an apprenticeship program itself but is intended to build practical welding skills and safety competencies that can serve as a foundation for pursuing an apprenticeship afterward. Domestic applicants must be Manitoba residents. The program suits individuals looking to develop hands-on welding ability and industry-recognized safety practices before entering the trade.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires Grade 12 graduation, or final-year enrolment with results due by 15 July for fall entry, including one credit each of Grade 12 English (40S), Grade 12 Math (40S), and Grade 10 Science (20F). Applicants 19 or older who have been out of high school for at least a year may qualify as mature students by completing or enrolling in Grade 11 English (30S), Grade 10 Applied or Pre-Calculus Math (20S) or Grade 11 Consumer Math (30S), and Grade 10 Science (20F), or by completing RRC Polytech's Academic Foundations program. Applicants who completed three years of full-time secondary education in Canada, the US, or an ELR-exempt country in English meet the language requirement; others must submit one of RRC Polytech's approved certificate-level assessments: IELTS Academic (overall 6.0, no band below 5.5), CAEL (overall band 60), PTE (overall 54, minimum 50 per skill), Duolingo (115 or above, minimum 95 per section), or TOEFL iBT (4.0 overall, minimum 3.5 per component). Because the program is funded for Manitoba residents, admission is open to Manitoba residents only.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic and international applicants apply directly to RRC Polytech. The college states that most programs, including many trades and technology diplomas, have no fixed application deadline and remain open for registration until the program start date or until seats fill, while a smaller set of higher-demand programs (started in August or September) does carry a published deadline, listed through an interactive search tool on the college's Application Deadlines page. The specific cut-off dates for individual programs, and any distinct international deadline, could not be extracted from that page by automated means, so admission for most of this institution's programs is best treated as rolling rather than tied to a fixed date. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
