Yorkville University offers a Bachelor of Creative Arts degree that has received consent in Ontario and is delivered on-campus. Online Diploma and Associate Diploma programs are offered through Toronto Film School at Yorkville University, New Brunswick. On-campus Diploma programs are offered through Toronto Film School, Ontario.
Take Your Creative Career To The Next Level
The Bachelor of Creative Arts online degree program is designed to provide students the advanced business and leadership skills needed to succeed in today’s creative arts industries. Developed for both full-time and part-time students who have previously completed a diploma in an artistic discipline, this flexible university degree program can be completed online in as few as 15 months. In this unique program, you will gain a complete understanding of the methodologies, tools and perspectives of your chosen creative industry, including talent management, project budgeting, financial planning, and legal and ethical considerations in the creative arts.
Delivery
Online
Start Dates
January, April, October
Duration
As few as 15 months*
*With full course load, year-round study and/or approved transfer credits. Applicants are encouraged to contact an Admissions Advisor to determine the potential duration of their degree program according to their unique circumstances. For comprehensive, up-to-date information, please view the Academic Calendar.

Don’t Have Your Creative Diploma?
The Bachelor of Creative Arts is a degree completion program, requiring the prior completion of an acceptable post-secondary diploma in the creative arts. Don’t have your creative diploma yet? Find qualifying specialized diploma programs that fit your passion at Toronto Film School.
Program Features

Education Flexibility
Achievable in as few as 15 months with the prior completion of a diploma in a creative art, the Bachelor of Creative Arts online degree program is all about helping you realize your creative vision to the fullest – on your time and at your convenience. Experience work/life/school balance with a flexible, online course schedule.
We welcome domestic and international students as well as those already working in the arts. Our university degree program is designed to provide a complete understanding of your respective industry—and how you can make the most of it.

360° Industry Understanding
Our mentors draw from a wealth of experience in critical assessment, thought leadership, and entrepreneurial skills including fundraising, research, budget planning, and ethical collaboration. Whether your passion lies in music, film, dance, design, animation, video games, or any other creative field, you will receive the cross-disciplinary tools to navigate and negotiate the inner workings of your industry.

Transfer Credits Accepted
We understand your time is valuable, and your hunger to create is voracious. That’s why we want to help you accelerate your degree by accepting equivalent credits from post-secondary institutions through our articulation/transfer credit agreement.

Financial Aid & Assistance
Our Financial Aid officers are devoted to ensuring you have the personalized support and information you need to make your creative dreams a reality. We will help identify the various loans, lines of credit, grants, bursaries and scholarships that may be available to you.
Quick Facts
$58.9 billion
Culture industries have a $58.9 billion annual impact in Canada—eight times more than sports.
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Canada’s creative economy employs 2.2 million workers, or 12.9% of the total Canadian workforce which is higher than in the US and the UK.
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As of 2019, 715,400 professionals worked within the culture industries in Canada, including audiovisual and interactive media, visual and applied arts, written works, performance, and recording.
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For people who know what they want in life, both personally and professionally, Yorkville University offers programs aimed at achieving those goals. Yorkville University engages with people where they are in life and helps to get them where they want to be. Online or in class, across Canada, Yorkville programs are flexible, fast-paced and, above all else, lead to transformation through education.
Career Outcomes
The Bachelor of Creative Arts degree program will empower your career with an education that unites your creative talents with the advanced industry skills needed to capitalize on entrepreneurial opportunities, project-based positions, long-term engagements and senior leadership roles. Because the program enhances the applied skills of a variety of artistic disciplines, the career possibilities are as expansive as they are exciting. For instance:
- Filmmakers could go on to become production executives, producers, or studio heads.
- Actors could become casting directors, talent managers, or agents.
- Screenwriters could become executive producers, consultants, or development executives.
- Fashion Designers could run their own labels or studios.
- Video Game Developers, Animators and Designers could become creative directors, senior managers, or studio heads.
- Graphic Designers could expand into art direction or creative direction.
Meet the Program Director
Faculty
Meet Some of Your Bachelor of Creative Arts Online Faculty
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Adam Till, JD/MBA
Program Chair, Bachelor of Creative Arts
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Chris McClure, Ph.D.
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James Warrack, MA
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Paul de Silva, Ph. D.
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Ralph Silva, MFA
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Timothy Lauren
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Victoria Novak, JD
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Adrian Battiston, JD
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Scott Birdwise, Ph.D.
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Alexander Carson, MA
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Derrek S. Lennox, MBA
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Bruno Sanseverino Lyra, LLB
Course Descriptions
The Yorkville University Bachelor of Creative Arts degree program complements your artistic talents with the methodologies, perspectives and advanced leadership skills needed to accelerate your career, including courses in Entrepreneurship, Managing Talent, Financial Leadership, Research Methods, and more.
A full listing of program courses includes:
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Core Courses
Core Courses Code Course Name Credits BCAR 3013 03 BCAR 3023 03 BCAR 3043 03 BCAR 3053 03 BCAR 3063 03 BCAR 3073 03 BCAR 4013 03 BCAR 4023 03 BCAR 4033 03 BCAR 4043 03 BCAR 4113 03 BCAR 4123 03 -
General Studies Courses
General Studies Courses Code Course Name Credits ENGL101 03 QRSS100 03 ARTH110 03 ARTH120 03 ARTS 101 03 ARTS 102 03 ARTS 103 03 CRIN110 03 ENGL150 03 COMM100 03 UNIV101 03 GEOG210 03 ECON211 03 ENGL250 03 HIST300 03 PHIL300 03 SOCI300 03 PSYC200 03 SOCI200 03 HUMN422 03 HUMN430 03 HUMN450 03 HUMN440 03
Learning Outcomes
Graduates of Yorkville University’s Bachelor of Creative Arts program will be equipped with the advanced skills needed to succeed in the following areas of activity:
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Finding, assessing, and/or leading the production of creative material and properties, including:
- Understanding the history and social/cultural context of creative art
- Conducting research about creative arts and particular artistic properties and communicate the results of such research
- Critically assessing and evaluating artistic creations
- Understanding intellectual property rights and the management of those rights
- Understanding the global context and nature of creative arts
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Finding, motivating, and managing talent, including:
- Creating and managing a vision that will motivate others
- Building and leading effective teams
- Negotiation, conflict management and delegation
- Supervising people and performance management
- Fostering innovation and creativity
- Understanding the legal and regulatory frameworks relating to employees, unions, and independent contractors
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Finding and managing the financial resources required to realize creative undertakings, including:
- Entrepreneurship
- Fundraising, understanding sources of public funding, and preparing effective applications for funding
- Strategic and tactical planning, including budget planning
- Risk assessment and management, and expenditure management
- Understanding the legal requirements related to accountability and reporting
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Understanding the importance of ethical collaboration and personal accountability in the creative arts, including:
- Understanding of and sensitivity to gender, social, and cultural diversity
- Understanding of the importance of ethical rules and the need for leaders to be ethically accountable as well as legally and financially accountable
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Developing cross-cutting competencies in the following:
- Critical thinking
- Written communication
- Oral communication
- Collaboration and teamwork
Admission Requirements
Yorkville University’s Bachelor of Creative Arts degree program is offered at the downtown Toronto campus. Please note that domestic and international students have different admission, tuition and fee requirements.
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Toronto Campus, Ontario
An applicant may be admitted to the Bachelor of Creative Arts degree program if they meet one of the following sets of requirements:
Admission path 1:
- Completion in good academic standing of a three-year (six-term) diploma from a Canadian college of applied arts and technology or private career college legally recognized in the applicant’s home province (or the equivalent from a post-secondary education institution legally recognized in a jurisdiction outside Canada).
- The diploma must have been earned in one of the creative arts, which include but may not be limited to: music, dance, drama and theatre, writing, interior design and decorating, painting, sculpture, photography, graphics and computer graphics, animation, game design, crafts, industrial design, fashion and costume design, motion pictures, television, radio, video, sound recording.
- The applicant must have graduated with a GPA of at least 2.0 (or the equivalent).
- Equivalent credentials earned in a country other than Canada are accepted.
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Admission path 2:
- Completion in good academic standing of a two-year (four-term) diploma from a Canadian college of applied arts and technology or private career college legally recognized in the applicant’s home province (or the equivalent from a post-secondary education institution legally recognized in a jurisdiction outside Canada).
- The diploma must have been earned in one of the creative arts, which include but may not be limited to: music, dance, drama and theatre, writing, interior design and decorating, painting, sculpture, photography, graphics and computer graphics, animation, game design, crafts, industrial design, fashion and costume design, motion pictures, television, radio, video, sound recording.
- The applicant must have graduated with a GPA of at least 2.0 (or the equivalent).
AND one of:
- The completion of the equivalent of six credits of studio/applied course work in the applicant’s creative arts specialization or a closely related field over and above course work completed to earn the qualifying diploma;
- Courses must have been completed at a public university, college of applied arts and technology, or private career college legally recognized in the applicant’s home province or country;
- A grade of at least C must have been earned in the studio/applied courses;
- Students who have not completed six semester hours of additional studio/applied credits but have met other admission requirements may satisfy this admission requirement by agreeing to complete up to two studio/applied arts courses at Yorkville University. (The specific courses will be decided on a case-by-case basis.)
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- Six months’ professional, applied, and/or employment experience in the applicant’s area of creative arts expertise.
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- Completion of nine semester hours of university-level undergraduate study.
- Courses must have been completed at a public or private university legally recognized in the applicant’s home province or country.
- Courses must cover at least two of the following broad areas of study: social sciences, humanities, sciences (including mathematics), fine arts.
- A grade of at least C must have been earned in each of the courses.
- Students who have not completed nine semester hours of university-level undergraduate study but have met other admission requirements may satisfy this admission requirement by agreeing to complete additional breadth courses at Yorkville University.
Note: The Admissions Committee has approved the following set of Yorkville University courses to satisfy the requirements for additional creative arts training and additional university-level courses:
- Additional university-level courses:
- UNIV 101: University Studies
- QRSS 100: Qualitative Research Methods for Social Science
- COMM 100: Cross-Cultural Communication
- Additional applied arts courses:
- ARTS 101: Principles of Art and Design
- ARTS 102: Arts Industries in Canada – an Introduction and Overview
English Language Proficiency
Applicants seeking to establish English language proficiency by providing TOEFL, IELTS, or CAEL scores (or scores from other tests of English language proficiency recognized by the university) but whose scores fall below the standards required for admission may be considered for conditional admission in the following circumstances: they meet all other requirements for admission; their scores meet or are equivalent to at least the following standards – TOEFL 65; IELTS 6.5; CAEL 50.
Note that if you did not complete either your secondary education or your qualifying diploma where English was the language of instruction, you will be required to show proficiency in English sufficient for post-secondary study. Such proficiency may be established in one of the following ways:*
- Successful completion of at least 12 credit hours of previous postsecondary education where English was the language of instruction.
- Successful completion with the equivalent of “B” standing or better of a post-secondary level English for Academic Purposes program accredited by Languages Canada (http://www.languagescanada.ca/).
- Confirmation of an official TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of at least 550 (written version) or 80 (Internet based version); or an IELTS (International English-Language Test System) overall bandwidth of at least 6.5; or a Canadian Academic English-Language Test (CAEL) score of 60 or higher; or a Duolingo score of 105 or higher; or a score equivalent to these scores on another test of English language proficiency recognized by and acceptable to the University.
Conditional Admission
- The BCA Admissions Committee may admit students conditionally and/or may establish probationary conditions on admission.
- Applicants with English language proficiency scores that fall below the standards required for admission, may be considered for conditional admission in the following circumstances:
IELTS score (or equivalent)
- 6.5 and above: Students will enroll in the regular academic program
- 5.5 to less than 6.5: Students will enroll in the regular academic program and in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course in Term 1.
The EAP course (ENGL180) is available at select campuses concurrently as part of Yorkville University’s programs and counts towards the completion of the degree. There is no additional cost to the program when students take the EAP course.
*In all cases, the university reserves the right to require proof of language proficiency before permission will be granted to register in academic courses. Applicants from countries where English is the language of instruction, but is not the primary language of the general population, may be asked to demonstrate English-language proficiency.
Documentation Required to Support Application for Admission:
- Official transcripts for all post-secondary education and professional training completed.
- A letter of intent which provides a sample of writing that can contribute to the committee’s assessment of an applicant’s ability to succeed in university studies.
- A curriculum vitae or resume which provides insight into how the BCA builds upon previous post-secondary study
- Official name change documents should transcripts and other supporting documents be in a name different than the name on application.
For applicants seeking admission on the basis of 4-term diploma plus additional experience, evidence of the additional experience in the form of portfolios, catalogues, publications, reviews, testimonials, and/or employer references.
Have any questions? Please contact an Admissions Advisor.
- Completion in good academic standing of a three-year (six-term) diploma from a Canadian college of applied arts and technology or private career college legally recognized in the applicant’s home province (or the equivalent from a post-secondary education institution legally recognized in a jurisdiction outside Canada).
Tuition & Fees
The approximate total cost for the Bachelor of Creative Arts online degree program for Canadians, Permanent Residents and for international students outside of Canada, at the current tuition rate is $28,500*
A bursary of $7,500 may be available for BCA students.
The Bachelor of Creative Arts program runs throughout the year, which is divided into four academic terms: Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer. An academic year comprises three academic terms. A typical course is three credit hours.
Total program tuition may vary based on actual credit transfers and course equivalencies. Below are sample calculations depending on the number of courses taken per term.
COURSES PER TERM | CREDITS | CREDIT HOUR | FEES |
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2 | 6 | $475 | 6 x $475 = $2,850 |
3 | 9 | $475 | 9 x 475 = $4,275 |
4 | 12 | $475 | 12 X $475 = $5,700 |
*This cost is for students who are admitted on the basis of completing a recognized 6 term (or equivalent) creative arts college or university program.
As of 2023/2024. Tuition and fees are subject to change.
Tuition Payment
Arrangements for payment of tuition fees must be made at least two weeks prior to the start of each term. (Please see the Academic Schedule for deadlines.) Monthly payment arrangements can also be made. Please contact our Bursar’s Office for more details at 1-866-467-0661 (in Canada & the U.S) or 1-647-497-8940 (International).
Other Fees
Please note that costs do not include other fees such as textbooks, expendable supplies, equipment and resource fees. All fees and charges are quoted in Canadian dollars (CAD). Yorkville University also accepts equivalent payment in other currencies.
For further information about tuition, fees and payment methods, please contact Yorkville University’s Bursar’s Office. Tuition rates are confirmed three months prior to the start of each term. Changes to tuition rates will be announced at least three months prior to the start of the term to which they apply. Current tuition rates are available on the Yorkville University website or from the Bursar’s Office at 1-866-467-0661 (in Canada or the U.S) or 1-647-497-8940 (international).