Credentials
We offer many levels of certificate and diploma programs that are designed to meet your career goals. Depending on your goals, your pathway with NSCC may involve a combination of credentials.
Certificate of Professional Studies
Programs with this credential provide the opportunity for you to develop new or enhance existing skills and knowledge in a focused area, helping to build on previous education and experience to meet your career goals.
Typical length: Up to 1 term, full-time (more than 90 but less than 360 instructional hours)
Admission requirements:
- Often a high school graduation diploma or equivalent
- Some programs may require additional high school course credits
College Certificates
Programs with this credential provide a level of skills, knowledge, and attitudes that allow graduates to gain entry-level work within a prescribed range of functions and activities.
Typical length: 1 to 2 terms, full-time (more than 360 but less than 720 instructional hours)
Admission requirements:
- Often a high school graduation diploma or equivalent
- Some programs may require additional high school course credits
Certificates
Programs with this credential prepare you for entry-level employment and develop the level of skills and knowledge that help graduates perform a defined range of activities within a specific occupation.
Typical length: 2 terms, full-time (720 instructional hours)
Admission requirements:
- Often a high school graduation diploma or equivalent
- Some programs may require additional high school course credits
- Academic and Career Connections
- Aircraft Maintenance Technician – Structures
- American Sign Language (ASL) Studies
- Applied Media and Communication Arts
- Auto Body and Collision Repair
- Automotive Service and Repair
- Baking and Pastry Art
- Brick and Stone Masonry
- Business Fundamentals
- Cabinetmaking
- Carpentry Certificate
- Continuing Care
- Cool Climate Wine and Viticulture
- Culinary Skills
- Dental Assisting – Level II
- Diesel Repair – Industrial and Marine
- Electrical Construction and Industrial – Certificate
- Funeral Arranging and Directing
- Gas Technician
- Geographic Information Systems Technician
- Heavy Duty Equipment /Truck and Transport Repair – Certificate
- Industrial Mechanical
- Law and Security
- Marine Mechanical Technician
- Medical Office Administration
- Motorcycle and Power Products Repair
- Office Administration
- Plumbing
- Precision Machining
- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning
- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning – Geothermal
- Sheet Metal Systems
- Survey Technician
- Tourism Hospitality
- Utility Line Work – Construction and Maintenance
Diplomas
Diploma programs help prepare you for a specific field of work and include a broad base of study that enable graduates to work within a wide range of technical, administrative, professionally oriented occupations.
Typical length: 4 terms, full-time (1,440 instructional hours)
Admission requirements:
- Often a high school graduation diploma or equivalent
- Some programs may require additional high school course credits
- Aircraft Maintenance Technology - Avionics
- Aircraft Maintenance Technology - Mechanical
- American Sign Language/English Interpretation
- Architectural Engineering Technician
- Building Systems Technician (HVAC&R)
- Business – Hospitality
- Business – Tourism
- Business Administration
- CAD Technician – Mechanical
- Carpentry Diploma
- Child and Youth Care
- Civil Engineering Technology
- Community Recreation
- Construction Management Technology
- Cosmetology
- Criminal Justice
- Culinary Management
- Cyber Security
- Digital Animation
- Disability Supports and Services
- Drafting – Architectural
- Early Childhood Education
- Electrical Construction and Industrial – Diploma
- Electrical Engineering Technology
- Electrical Technician
- Electro Mechanical Technician
- Electronic Engineering Technician
- Electronic Engineering Technology
- Energy Sustainability Engineering Technology (ESET)
- Environmental Engineering Technology
- Esthetics and Spa Therapies
- Funeral and Allied Health Services
- Game Development
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) - Cartography and Geovisualization
- Geomatics Engineering Technology
- Graphic and Print Production
- Graphic Design
- Health Information Management
- Heavy Duty Equipment Repair
- Horticulture and Landscape Technology
- Industrial Engineering Technology
- Industrial Instrumentation
- IT Data Analytics
- IT Database Administration
- IT Generalist
- IT Programming
- IT Systems Management and Security
- IT Web Programming
- Library and Information Technology
- Marine Engineering Technology
- Marine Navigation Technology
- Mechanical Engineering Technology
- Medical Laboratory Technology
- Mental Health Recovery and Promotion
- Metal Fabrication
- Music Arts
- Music Production and Engineering
- Natural Resources Environmental Technology
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Occupational Therapy/ Physiotherapy Assistant
- Paralegal Services
- Pharmacy Technician
- Pipe Trades
- Power Engineering Technology
- Practical Nursing
- Professional Photography
- Radio Television Journalism
- Screen Arts
- Social Services
- Therapeutic Recreation
- Truck and Transport Repair
- Welding
- Welding Inspection and Quality Control
Advanced Diplomas
Programs with this credential help develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that enable graduates to work within a broad range of technical and/or management functions across many occupational areas. Graduates gain a deeper understanding of the applications and concepts related to a specific occupational area.
Typical length: 2 to 6 terms, full-time (720 to 2,160 instructional hours depending on the credential required upon admission)
Admission requirements:
- High school diploma or diploma or certificate
Graduate Certificates
Programs with this credential provide graduate-level study. They either deepen knowledge and skills already gained through a diploma or advanced diploma program, provide exposure to an interdisciplinary area of focus, or provide graduates of baccalaureate programs with specific knowledge and skills related to an applied occupational area.
Typical length: 1 to 2 terms, full-time (360 to 720 instructional hours depending on the credential required upon admission)
Admission requirements:
- Diploma or university degree
- Addictions Community Outreach
- Behavioural Interventions
- Business Intelligence and Analytics
- Digital Marketing
- Event Management
- Finance
- Full Stack Application Development
- Geographic Information Systems
- Geospatial Data Analytics
- Human Resource Management
- IT Embedded Systems Programming
- Marine Geomatics
- Music Business
- Nonprofit Leadership
- Oceans Technology
- Public Relations
- Remote Sensing