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postgraduate

Degree

Graduate Certificate in Commercial Beekeeping

Course code: #0770 P0770

postgraduate

Degree

Graduate Certificate in Commercial Beekeeping

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Quick facts

  • Annual tuition (2022)

    $14,750 CAD

  • Application fee

    $100 CAD

  • Duration

    1 year

  • PGWP

    1 year

  • Min GPA

    50 out of 100

Deadlines

Term start& deadline Deadline
Fall-September 01-February-2021 2021-02-01

Overview

Graduate Certificate in Commercial Beekeeping

As a Commercial Beekeeper, you help meet the expected demand for pollination services by various agricultural crops in Canada and around the world.

Highlights

Reflects Niagara College’s holistic approach to agri-food and commitment to helping meet the global demand for thousands of commercial beekeepers over the next decade including the need for over 3,000 commercial beekeepers across Canada by 2023.

Eastern Canada’s first-ever Commercial Beekeeping program.

Applied learning experiences via an on-campus apiary with 30 actively managed hives.

Three-semester program coincides with the normal annual lifecycle of a honey bee.

Reflective of a provincial focus on pollinator health strategies with an aim to create a highly skilled labour force to care for managed pollinators as wild pollinators continue to decline globally.

Engaged Program Advisory Committee with representatives from sectors involved in the planning, implementation, regulation and promotion of ecological restoration activities.

Career Opportunities

  • Apiarist
  • Apiary labourer
  • Apiary manager
  • Apiary technician
  • Honey and beehive-related product production
  • Honey production supervisor
  • Owner/operator – commercial beekeeping
  • Pollination services
  • Seasonal beekeeper

Estimate your cost

Residency
Count of person

$22,850

Total costs

yearly

Details


Cost of living 1 person $5,748
Accommodation 1 bed room $8,100
Tuition 1 person $14,750

Hourly wage

Min wage

17.20 CAD / 1 hour

in Canada every student can work 20 hour per week

Required documents

For post-graduate applicants: Post-secondary school transcripts and official or provisional degree certificate
TOEFL or IELTS

Language requirements

GRE
not required
GMAT
not required

IELTS

6.5
5.5
listening
5.5
writing
5.5
speaking
5.5
reading

TOEFL

79
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listening
22
writing
22
speaking
-
reading

PTE

58
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listening
-
writing
-
speaking
-
reading

Cambridge

-
listening
-
writing
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speaking
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reading
Language pathway (conditional offer) is available
Eligible to apply without language certificate

Niagara College’s intensive English for Academic Preparation (EAP) program offers five levels of English language skill development, welcoming beginner through advanced English proficiencies, and are each four months in duration. The most rigorous language program at Niagara College, EAP is designed for secondary school (high school) graduates and English as a Second language (ESL) learners as the program focuses on preparing you for English language post-secondary studies and career advancement. Applicants to this program should be in the process of completing, or have completed, their final year of secondary school.

Successful completion of the advanced level of the EAP program with a 70% average enables you to enter undergraduate programs at Niagara College – with no additional proficiency tests needed.


Academic background and requirement

Ontario College Diploma (or equivalent) or Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university and Proof of English proficiency

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