Offered by Vancouver Community College in Vancouver, Canada, Cybersecurity Governance, Risk, and Compliance Post-Degree Diploma is a postgraduate diploma in Cyber Security programme. The programme runs for 2 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 20,045 per total for local students.
This VCC post-degree diploma prepares graduates to safeguard the systems of government, business and large institutions through governance, risk and compliance practice, running two to three years with a September intake. Students learn to assess different GRC and security tooling and choose what to implement in an organisation, plan and develop internal controls in response to identified risks using information and evidence gathered from stakeholders, evaluate enterprise gaps in order to prepare or revise security policies, standards and guidelines, and apply security and compliance frameworks to support internal and external audit activity and maintain regulatory certification requirements. The program also covers designing an incident response plan and defining the roles of a cybersecurity incident response team, building and persuasively presenting a business case for a cybersecurity project, recognising and evaluating emerging technologies against an appropriate framework, managing projects with project management best practices, and communicating IT and security matters in writing and speech to the intended audience.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This post-degree diploma requires an undergraduate degree from an accredited post-secondary institution. English proficiency is met by English Studies 12 with a minimum 'C+' grade, or equivalent, corresponding to VCC's general English 12 'C+' proficiency level. The programme page lists no other mandatory admission conditions; it names recommended characteristics such as an interest in technology, communication skills and digital literacy, but states these as helpful attributes rather than entry requirements. No standardized English-test score table (IELTS, TOEFL, PTE or similar) is published on the page for applicants relying on a test rather than English 12.
Application Details
Start Date:September
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.
