Aboriginal University Bridging Program Certificate

Admission Requirements: The Aboriginal University Bridging Program Certificate is designed for students who identify as Indigenous in Canada, including First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. Since it is built from Adult Basic Education courses, each of which carries its own prerequisite, applicants meet those prerequisites either by providing a recent high school or post-secondary transcript, dated within the last five years, or by taking VIU's ABE assessment. Applicants must be 18 years of age or older, or obtain special permission if younger. No minimum GPA, and no IELTS, TOEFL, PTE, Duolingo or CAEL score, is published for this programme, consistent with its upgrading/bridging design rather than a standard academic-entry bar. VIU notes that an ABE assessment may additionally be required for course-placement purposes before registration.