Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
A technical institute in Calgary, Alberta, with an applied, industry-facing subject mix. Fields taught include civil and manufacturing engineering, business administration, tourism management and culinary arts, alongside English language courses, with degree study available at bachelor's level.
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Programs at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
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Pre-Health Sciences Certificate
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
Post-Diploma International Business Management
Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.
Post-Diploma Data Analytics
Data science turns large and messy datasets into something useful, combining statistics, programming and machine learning with the judgement to ask sensible questions. Storage, processing at scale and clear communication of results all matter. Graduates often work as data scientists, analysts or data engineers across technology, finance, health and public services.
Post-Diploma Cyber Security For Control Systems
Control systems engineering is about making machines behave as intended: sensing what a system is doing, comparing it with a target and correcting continuously. Students study dynamics, feedback design, stability and digital implementation. Graduates often work in automation, robotics, aerospace, automotive, process industries and energy.
English Language Foundations
Language study builds fluency in speaking, reading and writing another tongue, alongside the grammar, literature and culture that give it meaning. It blends practical communication with translation and the study of how societies express themselves. Graduates commonly move into translation, teaching, international business, diplomacy, media and cultural organisations.
Diploma Welding Engineering Technology
Manufacturing engineering is concerned with how things get made at scale: machining and forming processes, automation, factory layout, quality control and the cost of every decision. It involves designing production lines and improving them once they are running. Graduates often work in production engineering, process improvement, automation and quality assurance.
Diploma Welding And Fabrication Technology
Manufacturing engineering is concerned with how things get made at scale: machining and forming processes, automation, factory layout, quality control and the cost of every decision. It involves designing production lines and improving them once they are running. Graduates often work in production engineering, process improvement, automation and quality assurance.
Diploma Transport And Heavy Equipment Technology
Transportation studies how people and goods move by road, rail, sea and air, and how networks are planned, operated and funded. Coursework can span traffic engineering, logistics, economics and policy, with attention to safety, congestion and emissions. Graduates often work in transport planning, logistics operations, infrastructure projects and public agencies.
Diploma Respiratory Therapy
Respiratory therapy centres on breathing: how the lungs work, what goes wrong in asthma, chronic lung disease or critical illness, and how oxygen, ventilators and airway care support patients. Training is clinical and hands-on, with close attention to assessment and monitoring. Graduates often work in hospital wards, intensive care, emergency services or home care.
Diploma Radio, Television And Broadcast News - Television Major
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
Diploma Radio, Television And Broadcast News - Radio Major
Media studies and communication analyse how messages are produced, circulated and understood across journalism, broadcasting, advertising, film and digital platforms. Students examine audiences, institutions and the making of meaning, alongside practical production skills. Graduates frequently work in content creation, public relations, marketing communication, media planning, research and cultural organisations.
Diploma Power Engineering Technology
Power engineering concerns the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy. The subject covers machines and transformers, transmission networks, protection and control, power electronics, and the challenge of integrating renewable sources into existing grids. Graduates often join utilities, network operators, equipment manufacturers, renewable energy developers or engineering consultancies.
Diploma Petroleum Engineering Technology
Petroleum engineering deals with finding, recovering and producing oil and gas from underground reservoirs. Students study rock and fluid behaviour, drilling and well design, production systems, and the economics and environmental questions that surround energy extraction. Graduates often work with energy operators, service and equipment companies, consultancies or research groups.
Diploma Optician
Optics is the study of light: how it travels, bends, interferes and interacts with matter, and how lenses, lasers, fibres and imaging systems are designed. Theory is combined with laboratory measurement. Graduates often work in photonics, telecommunications, medical imaging, instrumentation, manufacturing and research.
Diploma Mechanical Engineering Technology
Mechanical engineering deals with machines and moving systems: how forces, materials, heat and fluids behave, and how to design and manufacture things that work reliably. Modelling, simulation and laboratory testing support the design process. Graduates often work in manufacturing, automotive and aerospace sectors, energy, robotics, and product design or testing.
Diploma Machining Technology
Manufacturing engineering is concerned with how things get made at scale: machining and forming processes, automation, factory layout, quality control and the cost of every decision. It involves designing production lines and improving them once they are running. Graduates often work in production engineering, process improvement, automation and quality assurance.
Diploma Library Information Technology
Informatics studies how information is structured, stored, moved and used — by computing systems and by the people and organisations around them. It sits between computing, data analysis and human behaviour, with attention to how systems are designed and adopted. Graduates often work in data and software roles, systems design, health information or research.
Diploma Legal Assistant
Law examines the rules that govern people, organisations and states, and the reasoning used to interpret and apply them. Much of the work is close reading, building arguments and weighing competing principles. Graduates often pursue legal practice, and also compliance, policy, human rights work, business and public administration.
Diploma Journalism - Photojournalism Major
Journalism is the practice of finding information others would rather keep quiet, verifying it, and telling it clearly across print, broadcast and digital formats. Reporting craft sits alongside media law, ethics and an understanding of how audiences and platforms work. Graduates often work in newsrooms, magazines, broadcasting, communications and independent media.
Diploma Integrated Water Management
This field deals with the stewardship of water, soils, forests, fisheries, rangelands and minerals, weighing productive use against long-term conservation. Students combine ecology and resource economics with policy, law, monitoring methods and negotiation among competing users. Graduates work in environmental agencies, conservation organisations, consultancies, land and water management and rural development.
Diploma Instrumentation Engineering Technology
Instrumentation engineering is concerned with the devices that measure and control physical quantities such as pressure, temperature, flow and position in industrial systems. Students study sensors, signal conditioning, control loops, calibration and automation. Graduates often work in process industries, energy, manufacturing, testing laboratories and roles that keep automated plant running accurately and safely.
Diploma Hospitality And Tourism Management - Travel And Tourism
Tourism management studies how destinations, hotels, tour operators and attractions are planned, marketed and run, and how visitor flows affect local economies, cultures and environments. Service operations sit alongside marketing, sustainability and destination planning. Graduates often work in hospitality groups, travel companies, tourism boards and event operations.
Diploma Hospitality And Tourism Management - Restaurant And Service Operations
Tourism management studies how destinations, hotels, tour operators and attractions are planned, marketed and run, and how visitor flows affect local economies, cultures and environments. Service operations sit alongside marketing, sustainability and destination planning. Graduates often work in hospitality groups, travel companies, tourism boards and event operations.
Diploma Hospitality And Tourism Management - Multi-Disciplinary
Tourism management studies how destinations, hotels, tour operators and attractions are planned, marketed and run, and how visitor flows affect local economies, cultures and environments. Service operations sit alongside marketing, sustainability and destination planning. Graduates often work in hospitality groups, travel companies, tourism boards and event operations.
Diploma Hospitality And Tourism Management - Hotels And Accommodation
Tourism management studies how destinations, hotels, tour operators and attractions are planned, marketed and run, and how visitor flows affect local economies, cultures and environments. Service operations sit alongside marketing, sustainability and destination planning. Graduates often work in hospitality groups, travel companies, tourism boards and event operations.
Diploma Hospitality And Tourism Management - Event Management
Tourism management studies how destinations, hotels, tour operators and attractions are planned, marketed and run, and how visitor flows affect local economies, cultures and environments. Service operations sit alongside marketing, sustainability and destination planning. Graduates often work in hospitality groups, travel companies, tourism boards and event operations.
Diploma Hospitality And Tourism Management - Entrepreneurship And Innovation
Tourism management studies how destinations, hotels, tour operators and attractions are planned, marketed and run, and how visitor flows affect local economies, cultures and environments. Service operations sit alongside marketing, sustainability and destination planning. Graduates often work in hospitality groups, travel companies, tourism boards and event operations.
Diploma Hospitality And Tourism Management - Beverage Management
Tourism management studies how destinations, hotels, tour operators and attractions are planned, marketed and run, and how visitor flows affect local economies, cultures and environments. Service operations sit alongside marketing, sustainability and destination planning. Graduates often work in hospitality groups, travel companies, tourism boards and event operations.
Diploma Health Information Management
Health informatics is about the information that health systems run on: records, coding standards, clinical software, data quality, privacy, and how technology changes the way care is delivered. Computing sits alongside clinical and organisational understanding. Graduates often work in hospital IT, health data analysis, digital health companies and research.
Diploma Geomatics Engineering Technology
Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.
Diploma Fitness And Wellness Management
Physiology explains how living bodies function: how cells, organs and systems such as the heart, lungs, nerves and muscles work together and adapt to changing conditions. Study combines laboratory measurement with anatomy, biochemistry and an understanding of disease. Graduates often go into research, healthcare, sport and exercise science, pharmaceuticals and teaching.
Diploma Film And Video Production
Filmmaking is the craft of telling stories on screen: writing and developing an idea, directing performance, camera and lighting, sound, and editing material into its final shape. Much of the learning happens by making work, often in small crews. Graduates often work in directing, cinematography, editing, production, and commercial and documentary video.
Diploma Environmental Technology
Environmental science studies natural systems and the ways human activity alters them: climate, water, soil, air and ecosystems, along with the pollution and resource pressures that connect them. Fieldwork, laboratory analysis and data modelling are the usual tools. Graduates often work in environmental consultancy, conservation, water and waste management, regulation, research and sustainability roles.
Diploma Energy Asset Management
Renewable energy policy examines how governments and markets shift electricity, heat and transport away from fossil fuels: subsidies, carbon pricing, grid rules, permitting and public acceptance. Study blends knowledge of energy systems with economics, law and political analysis. Graduates often work in policy, regulation, utilities, consultancy and advocacy.
Diploma Electronics Engineering Technology
Electronic engineering deals with circuits and the devices built from them, from sensors and amplifiers to embedded processors and communication systems. It covers analogue and digital design, signal processing, and the testing of hardware that must work reliably. Graduates often work in electronics design, telecommunications, semiconductors, instrumentation and embedded systems.
Diploma Electrical Trade And Technology
Electrical engineering deals with electricity and electronics in all their uses: circuits, signals, power generation and distribution, control systems, communications and embedded devices. Theory, mathematics and laboratory work run together. Graduates often work in energy and power, electronics and semiconductors, telecommunications, automation, transport and product development.
Diploma Electrical Engineering Technology
Electrical engineering deals with electricity and electronics in all their uses: circuits, signals, power generation and distribution, control systems, communications and embedded devices. Theory, mathematics and laboratory work run together. Graduates often work in energy and power, electronics and semiconductors, telecommunications, automation, transport and product development.
Diploma Early Childhood Education
Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.
Diploma Culinary Arts
The craft and technique of preparing food is the focus here: knife skills, cooking methods, flavour, menu composition and the organisation of a professional kitchen. Practice sits alongside study of ingredients, nutrition, hygiene and cost. Graduates often work in kitchens, food production, catering, food media and hospitality businesses.
Diploma Civil Engineering Technology - Virtual Design And Construction Major
Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.
Diploma Civil Engineering Technology - Municipal Major
Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.
Diploma Civil Engineering Technology - Construction Management Major
Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.
Diploma Chemical Laboratory Technology
Behind most diagnoses sits a laboratory result. Clinical laboratory science covers the analysis of blood, tissue and other samples: the techniques involved, quality control, and the biology that makes each test meaningful. Graduates often work in diagnostic laboratories, hospitals, public health services, research groups or the diagnostics industry.
Diploma Chemical Engineering Technology
Chemical engineering scales chemistry up from the flask to the plant, designing the reactors, separation units and control systems that turn raw materials into fuels, medicines, food and materials. Thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat transfer and process safety are core. Graduates often work in energy, pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, food processing and environmental engineering.
Diploma Business Administration - Supply Chain Management Major
This field follows goods from raw material to customer: sourcing, production planning, warehousing, transport and the information that ties them together. It involves modelling flows, controlling inventory and cost, and managing disruption across suppliers and borders. Graduates often work in procurement, logistics, operations planning and distribution.
Diploma Business Administration - Marketing Major
Marketing studies how organisations understand customers and bring products and services to them, spanning research, branding, pricing, distribution, advertising and digital channels. The work blends creative thinking with data about behaviour. Graduates often work in brand and product management, digital marketing, market research, advertising, and sales or communications.
Diploma Business Administration - Management Major
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
Diploma Business Administration - Human Resource Management Major
Human resources focuses on how organisations recruit, develop, reward and retain people, and how workplace culture, employment law and wellbeing affect performance. The subject draws on psychology, employment relations and management practice. Graduates often work in recruitment, learning and development, employee relations, compensation and benefits, and wider people or operations roles.
Diploma Business Administration - Financial Services Major
Finance concerns how money is raised, invested and managed, and how risk and return are priced over time. Topics run from corporate funding decisions and valuation through to markets, portfolios and financial instruments. Graduates often work in corporate finance, banking, investment and asset management, risk analysis and financial planning.
Diploma Business Administration Automotive Management
Automotive engineering applies mechanical and electrical principles to vehicles: engines and electric drivetrains, chassis and suspension, safety structures, and the electronics that control them. Design, simulation and testing of components and whole systems run through the field. Graduates often work in vehicle design, powertrain development, testing and manufacturing.
Diploma Business Administration - Accounting Major
Accounting deals with how financial information is recorded, verified and reported so that decisions can be made and organisations held to account. Study covers financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation and reporting rules. Graduates often work in accountancy practice, corporate finance teams, audit, tax, and financial management or analysis.
Diploma Baking And Pastry Arts
The craft and technique of preparing food is the focus here: knife skills, cooking methods, flavour, menu composition and the organisation of a professional kitchen. Practice sits alongside study of ingredients, nutrition, hygiene and cost. Graduates often work in kitchens, food production, catering, food media and hospitality businesses.
Certificate Water And Wastewater Treatment Operations
Environmental management is about running organisations and land in ways that limit harm to ecosystems, air, water and climate. Studies combine environmental science with regulation, auditing, risk assessment and negotiation between stakeholders. Graduates often work in sustainability teams, consultancy, waste and water management, conservation organisations and government agencies.
Certificate Primary Care Paramedic
Primary care is the entry point between people and health services, dealing with undiagnosed problems, long-term conditions and prevention in the community. Study covers clinical reasoning across a wide range of presentations, continuity of care, and working across professions. Graduates often move into community health services, leadership, education and research.
Certificate Power And Process Operations
Making systems work better is the whole point here — production lines, hospitals, warehouses, supply networks. The work combines mathematics, statistics and modelling with a close look at how people, machines and materials interact. Graduates often go into operations, logistics, quality management, process improvement and manufacturing consultancy.
Certificate Non-Destructive Testing Foundations
This field asks how scientific knowledge and technologies are actually produced, contested and used, and how they reshape society in turn. Students examine expertise and controversy, ethics, risk, innovation and regulation, drawing on history, sociology and philosophy. Graduates work in science and technology policy, research, journalism, consultancy, regulation and technology companies.
Certificate Management And Leadership
Business administration concentrates on running an organisation as a whole: coordinating people, budgets, operations and strategy so that separate departments work in step. Attention falls on decisions that cut across functions rather than on a narrow specialism. Graduates often move into general management, operations, consulting, and planning or administrative roles across sectors.
Certificate Early Childhood Education
Education explores how people learn, and how teaching, curriculum, assessment and school systems shape that learning. The subject draws on psychology and sociology while staying close to what happens in classrooms and institutions. Graduates often work in teaching and training, curriculum development, educational research, policy and administration.
Certificate Dental Assisting
Health care is concerned with how health services are organised, delivered and improved, taking in patient needs, clinical practice, ethics, quality and the systems holding it together. Health sciences sit alongside management and social science. Graduates often work in clinical support, health administration, public health bodies and service improvement.
Certificate Business Intelligence Data Analysis And Reporting
Data science turns large and messy datasets into something useful, combining statistics, programming and machine learning with the judgement to ask sensible questions. Storage, processing at scale and clear communication of results all matter. Graduates often work as data scientists, analysts or data engineers across technology, finance, health and public services.
Certificate Business And Entrepreneurship
Business examines how organisations are created, financed, run and grown, from managing people and money to reading markets and making decisions under uncertainty. Coursework blends analysis with practical judgement. Graduates often move into management, consulting and entrepreneurship, or into specialist roles across finance, operations and marketing.
Bachelor Of Science Construction Project Management
Civil engineering covers the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: buildings, bridges, roads, water supply, drainage and other infrastructure. Mechanics, materials and structural analysis combine with project planning and constant attention to safety and cost. Graduates often work in design consultancies, construction, transport, and water or environmental engineering.
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