Royal Roads University offers Disaster and Emergency Management Graduate Diploma, a postgraduate diploma in Emergency & Disaster Management programme in Victoria, Canada. The programme runs for 12 months, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 20,670 per total (CAD 14,623 per total for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Postgraduate Diploma
Field:Emergency & Disaster Management
Duration: 12 months
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 14,623 / total
International tuition: CAD 20,670 / total
Last checked September 2026 · Source: royalroads.ca ·
Program details
Overview
Delivered online over 12 months with a single two-week on-campus residency, this diploma takes an integrated, holistic approach to disaster and emergency management, examining how environment, society, economics, and politics shape the way disasters unfold and helping students plan for, mitigate, and recover from them. Students take one nine-week online course at a time, followed by a two-week break, at roughly 20 hours of work per week, and the program opens with a required non-credit course on academic integrity. Students may switch into the related two-year Master of Arts in Disaster and Emergency Management with credits carrying over, sharing first-year coursework with that program. Graduates gain critical-thinking and communication skills suited to international development, disaster mitigation, emergency response, and international NGO work.
Requirements
Minimum GPA:3.33 / 4.33
Admission Requirements: Standard admission requires a four-year (or comparable) undergraduate degree in a relevant and related field, with a minimum GPA of 'B+' (3.33/4.33). Applicants holding the degree but below the GPA threshold may qualify through flexible admission with a minimum of five years of relevant professional experience; applicants without an undergraduate degree need ten years of work experience, including at least two years in a leadership or management position, and are normally required to complete the non-credit Academic Writing and Critical Thinking course before starting. The programme page defers non-native English speakers to Royal Roads' institution-wide requirement: for graduate-level entry, IELTS Academic 6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in writing and speaking and 6.0 in listening and reading, or TOEFL iBT 88 overall with a minimum of 24 in writing and 20 in listening, reading and speaking. Applicants must submit official transcripts, a two-to-three-page personal statement addressing six set questions, two letters of reference, and a structured résumé; international applicants require a credential evaluation and English proficiency score documentation where applicable.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Royal Roads University sets no single university-wide deadline: domestic and international applicants apply directly to the university through the same process, and every programme page checked shows one identical deadline for both. RRU consistently closes a programme's application exactly three calendar months before that programme's own intake start date — a September 2027 intake typically closes 7 June 2027 — though a few programmes (the Master of Global Management, for example) use a six-month lead instead. Each programme lists its own upcoming intakes, running from 2026 into 2028 depending on the programme, and RRU says it may still accept a late application if space and processing time remain, but it publishes no separate international deadline and no institution-wide equal-consideration or rolling policy. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
