Animal Welfare Certificate is a certificate in Animal Science programme offered by Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 162 per credit for local students.
This certificate suits animal caregivers looking to upgrade their skills, as well as individuals interested in pursuing a career in animal welfare, building skills as an animal care-giver. Topics span business techniques, conflict resolution, legal and humane issues, the human-animal bond, and animal handling.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Thompson Rivers University's Animal Welfare Certificate publishes only one entry condition: Grade 12 (or equivalent) is recommended. The program page states no required subject-specific high-school courses, minimum grades, GPA threshold, standardized English-language test score, portfolio, interview, work-experience, or age condition. General admission for TRU's undergraduate programs otherwise runs through secondary-school graduation, 12 or more transferable post-secondary credits, or mature-student status (19 or older), with international applicants needing completed secondary schooling and a minimum age of 17, but the certificate page does not itself invoke or link to that general route, so this record reports only what the program page states.
Application Details
Start Date:Ongoing
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply directly to TRU: for the September (Fall) intake the deadline is 1 May, for January (Winter) it is 1 September, and for the May (Summer) intake it is 1 January; applications for most programs open 1 October, and a deadline falling on a weekend or statutory holiday moves to the next working day. International applicants follow the same intake structure with deadlines of 1 May (September), 1 October (January) and 1 February (May); TRU still reviews later applications where space remains, though high-volume programs can close early, so admission runs on a rolling basis around these published cut-offs for the 2027 entry cycle. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
