Vancouver Community College offers CAD Technician Short Certificate, a certificate in Civil Engineering & Construction programme in Vancouver, Canada. The programme runs for 14 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 2,525 per total for local students.
VCC's CAD Technician short certificate is a 14-week, full-time program delivered fully online on a Monday-to-Friday, 8 a.m.-to-3 p.m. schedule, built from six courses totalling 14 credits: CAD Drafting Fundamentals, CAD Drafting Applied, Office & Construction Site Safety, Construction Mathematics, Residential Plans and Framing, and Job Search Skills. Students learn AutoCAD software alongside orthographic projection, sectioning, dimensioning, and residential building-construction planning under the BC Building Code, taught through a project-based approach that includes presentations and laboratory work. Admission requires Grade 12 graduation or equivalent, English Language Proficiency at a grade 12 level, and math competency shown either through Workplace Math 11 or VCC's own assessment (80% on basic arithmetic and 60% on basic algebra); applicants who completed high school Drafting 11 and 12 may, with departmental approval, qualify for direct entry into the program's second term. VCC notes that required textbooks come at no extra cost and Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition is available for select courses.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires Grade 12 graduation or equivalent, English Language Proficiency at a Grade 12 level, and a math prerequisite met either by Workplace Math 11 or equivalent, or by VCC's own Math Assessment with at least 80% on Basic Arithmetic and 60% on Basic Algebra. VCC notes that applicants who do not meet the English requirement may still be admitted at the department's discretion. Applicants who have completed high school Drafting 11 and 12, alongside the other requirements, may apply directly into term 2, and VCC CAD & BIM Technologies Department students who have completed Level 1 may insert into Level 2. As with VCC's other domestic programmes, applicants must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents, at least 16 years old or a secondary-school graduate with some exceptions, and must have official transcripts on file.
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through EducationPlannerBC. VCC publishes each programme's own application window, term by term, on its When to Apply page rather than one college-wide date: windows open roughly six to twenty months before the term starts and close on a stated date, though popular programmes can close earlier once seats fill, since places generally go to eligible applicants in the order their application is completed. International applicants use the International Applicant option on EducationPlannerBC; VCC opens international applications on 1 February of the previous year for Winter entry, 1 June for Spring/Summer, and 1 October for Fall, with no fixed closing date — applications continue until roughly three to four months before the term begins or until it fills, so admission is effectively rolling for international applicants. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
