Graduate Certificate - Artificial Intelligence with Machine Learning

The Artificial Intelligence with Machine Learning graduate certificate is a one-year applied postgraduate program for students with a programming or quantitative background.

Content covers Python for data science, mathematics and statistics for machine learning, data preparation and feature engineering, supervised learning including regression and classification, unsupervised methods and clustering, neural networks and deep learning frameworks, natural language processing, computer vision fundamentals, model evaluation and deployment, and the ethical and governance dimensions of AI systems. Assessment is project-based against real datasets.

The applied framing is important. This is not a research program — it trains people to build, evaluate and deploy models using existing frameworks, which is what the overwhelming majority of AI jobs actually involve. Applicants without prior programming will struggle; those with it will find one year sufficient to reach hireable competence.

Humber Polytechnic — formerly Humber College — is Ontario’s largest public college and a Designated Learning Institution (DLI O19376943122). The North campus in Etobicoke is its main site, running technology, engineering, health science, business and skilled trades programs in purpose-built labs and shops rather than lecture halls, with three intakes a year and the deepest employer network in the Greater Toronto Area.

Its field maps to CIP 11.0102 (Artificial intelligence). Important: this is a college credential rather than a degree, so it is not exempt from the November 2024 PGWP field-of-study restriction — eligibility depends on this CIP field appearing on IRCC’s eligible list when you apply. Humber publishes a PGWP-eligible program list with CIP codes; check it, and confirm with an Apply Study Visa counsellor before committing. IRCC makes the final decision.