Regulatory Affairs in the Life Sciences Micro-certificate - UBCV is a micro-credential in Health Sciences programme offered by The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The programme runs for 10 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 5,200 per total (CAD 2,500 per total for local students).
Run jointly by UBC's Academy of Translational Medicine and its Faculty of Medicine, this ten-week, part-time micro-certificate introduces the regulatory systems that govern how life sciences products move toward approved use, covering Canadian and international frameworks along with the stakeholders involved. Core tasks within the field are covered directly, including how risk-benefit analyses are conducted, what preclinical and clinical requirements apply at different stages, and how evidence to support a regulatory strategy is generated. From there, the programme moves into specific areas of practice: clinical trial regulation, medical device rules, patent regulation, and post-market surveillance, along with newer trial designs such as master protocols and adaptive studies. A final strand situates regulatory affairs within the wider discipline of regulatory science, connecting it to evidence from real clinical use, patient involvement, and health care economics rather than treating regulation as a purely procedural exercise.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: No formal academic prerequisite is stated for this UBC Extended Learning micro-certificate: the program page describes it as designed for health, life-sciences and clinical professionals and students, without specifying a mandatory prior qualification, minimum GPA, or English-language test score (IELTS/TOEFL). Admission is through direct registration in its two five-module courses, Introduction to Regulatory Affairs and Regulatory Science and Health Economics, delivered in a hybrid format combining bi-weekly online sessions with in-person workshops, for roughly 50-70 hours of coursework in total. Tuition is CAD $1,300 per course for Canadian citizens and permanent residents and CAD $2,600 per course for international students. No application form, interview, portfolio or reference letter is described on the program page.
Application Details
Start Date:September
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.
