Red River College Polytechnic offers Diploma in Cybersecurity, a diploma in Cyber Security programme in Winnipeg, Canada. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Tuition for international students is CAD 22,614 per year (CAD 15,474 per year for local students).
This two-year diploma program covers foundational information technology concepts including customer experience, networking, and security operations, building toward vulnerability management, security monitoring, detection and response, incident management, IT design principles and methodologies, and information security laws and policies. Instruction includes hands-on practice in simulated learning environments that mirror real security operations. The program is delivered full-time at the Exchange District and South Winnipeg campuses in Winnipeg and includes a co-op or practicum component that provides students with industry experience before graduation. It suits individuals seeking entry-level roles in cybersecurity who want a broad technical grounding across networking, monitoring, and incident response rather than a single narrow specialty. Graduates are prepared to take on responsibilities such as monitoring for security threats, managing vulnerabilities, supporting incident response, and applying information security policy within an organization's broader IT operations.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires Grade 12 graduation, or final-year enrolment with results due by 15 July for fall entry. Applicants 19 or older who have been out of high school for at least a year may qualify as mature students by meeting the Grade 10 Math requirement, currently waived until 31 March 2027, or by submitting a resume showing one year of information-technology work experience, plus the standard language requirement. 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 diploma-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). Students are strongly recommended to obtain a criminal record check upon enrolment, since an unsatisfactory result can affect eligibility for the program's work placement.
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
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.
