At Sheridan College in Oakville, Canada, Diploma in Pharmacy Technician is offered as a diploma in Pharmacy programme. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 19,779 per year (CAD 4,821 per year for local students).
The diploma carries accreditation from Canada's national pharmacy-program accrediting body, with learning outcomes aligned to the entry-to-practice competencies set by the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities. Students learn to process prescription and non-prescription orders, including receiving, identifying and interpreting them, to measure, weigh, count, pour, select, reconstitute, package and label products for dispensing, and to compound both sterile and non-sterile preparations, alongside the ethical and legal principles of practice.
Field placements total 400 hours across hospital pharmacy, community pharmacy and specialty pharmacy settings, supplementing coursework in core subjects that include pharmacology, pharmacy legislation, pharmacy math, and human anatomy and physiology, patient and client communication, interprofessional collaboration and inventory management. Graduates can pursue registration as a technician with the Ontario College of Pharmacists and can write the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada qualifying exam and the OCP Jurisprudence Exam.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Academic (Ontario basis): an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or accepted equivalent carrying Grade 12 (C or U) English and Mathematics at 60 per cent or better, plus high-school-level (C or U) Biology and Chemistry, each at 60 per cent or better. Applicants aged 19 or over who are missing the mathematics or science may sit Sheridan's equivalency tests for a minimum of 60 per cent, or take free preparatory courses through Academic Upgrading. Eligible applicants are ranked on the average of their six highest senior-level credits, the required courses included. An international applicant must present the equivalent of these Ontario courses from their own school system, and a credential assessment may be requested; a domestic applicant schooled outside Canada has transcripts assessed through ICAS or WES. English is unusually strict here because the program is accredited by the Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs and must satisfy the NAPRA language policy: every applicant submits an IELTS Academic result of Reading 7.0, Listening 7.0, Speaking 7.0 and Writing 6.5, with all four subtests taken in one sitting and each minimum met. No other English test is accepted, and completing ESL or EAP does not substitute - applicants who have done so still need a qualifying IELTS Academic result. The result must be no more than 24 months old on the first day of class. The test can be waived only on proof of graduating from a Canadian secondary school, CEGEP, community college, private career college or university program with at least three consecutive years of full-time instruction in English; ESL, EAP and extra language courses do not count toward those years. Before placement, and at your own expense: a valid CPR and AED certificate at Level C with Standard First Aid, a criminal record and vulnerable sector check repeated every six months, N95 mask fit testing, and a current immunisation record approved by Sheridan's Health Centre covering MMR, Tdap, varicella, hepatitis B, influenza and a TB skin test; hospital placements also require at least a two-dose primary COVID-19 series. Credentials from private career colleges are not accepted, and education completed outside Canada needs a course-by-course assessment through ICAS or WES.
Application Details
Start Date:Sheridan runs three terms a year - Fall starting in September, Winter in January and Spring/Summer in May. For 2026-27 the Fall term ran 8 September to 18 December 2026, Winter runs 6 January to 16 April 2027, and Spring/Summer runs 3 May to 13 August 2027. On 6 September 2026 this program's own page listed intakes in September 2026 and January 2027, delivered in hybrid mode at the Davis Campus in Brampton. Sheridan's Start date table also carries a separate Domestic and International status for each intake (Available, Waitlisted or Closed) that changes as seats fill, so check this program's page on sheridancollege.ca before you apply.
Application Deadline:Sheridan publishes no deadline of its own for this program; the dates below are the college-wide ones. DOMESTIC APPLICANTS (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through ontariocolleges.ca, which opened the Fall 2027 application on 26 September 2026 - Sheridan says it starts receiving those applications in early October for the academic year that follows. The equal consideration date is 1 February: apply on or before it and your file is weighed alongside every other one received by then for a Fall-term start, so for the cycle now open that means 1 February 2027 for entry in September 2027. Sheridan still accepts applications after that date wherever a program has not filled, but they are handled in the order they arrive, which leaves little room in high-demand programs. First offers for a September start may go out from 1 November; programs that require a portfolio, audition or resume begin issuing decisions later in March, and offers for the Winter and Spring/Summer intakes are made on a rolling basis. Confirm a Fall offer at ontariocolleges.ca by 1 May, or by the date printed on an offer issued after that, then pay the tuition deposit three months before the term begins. INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS apply instead through Sheridan's own International Application Portal, and Sheridan publishes no deadline for them - its Important Dates table carries only a note that the international dates are still to be posted. What limits an international application in practice is space: Sheridan tells international applicants to check that a program still has room before applying, and every program page shows a separate International status for each intake. Apply as early as you can and leave time for a study permit. Confirm the current dates at sheridancollege.ca and ontariocolleges.ca before you apply.
