Behavioural Insights Advanced Professional Certificate - UBCV is a certificate in Other programme offered by The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The programme runs for 9 months, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 6,495 per total (CAD 6,000 per total for local students).
Behavioural Insights draws on fields such as psychology and economics within the behavioural and decision sciences, studying how people make decisions, designing solutions informed by that understanding, and testing whether those solutions work and for whom. This nine-month certificate pairs coursework with a capstone project, building the practical knowledge needed to design and test behavioural insights solutions used in the workplace.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This UBC Sauder advanced professional certificate requires applicants to hold an undergraduate degree, a college diploma, or several years of relevant work experience, and to complete the 3-week Fundamentals of Behavioural Insights prerequisite course before, or by the deadline shortly after, the program starts (this may be taken independently as the first step toward the certificate). The page requires applicants to demonstrate strong written and spoken English proficiency but does not publish a specific test or score. Admission is competitive, with a cohort capped at 30 students, and a tuition deposit is required upon acceptance.
Application Details
Start Date:August
Application Deadline:Domestic and international undergraduate applicants both apply through EducationPlannerBC for Winter Session 2027/28 (September 2027 entry) and Summer 2027: applications open in early October 2026 and the equal-consideration deadline is 15 January 2027, 11:59 p.m. PST, the same date for both groups; a few programs keep reviewing late applications on a space-available basis afterwards. Earlier dates apply only to entrance-award consideration -- 15 November 2026 for the International Scholars Program and 1 December 2026 for Presidential/Centennial/Beyond Tomorrow scholars. Several limited-entry programmes -- Law, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing (advanced entry), Occupational/Physical Therapy, Social Work and Teacher Education -- set their own earlier deadlines from October 2026 through February 2027. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
