The Business School will be offering a variety of delivery modes for new students in all programs.  These can include, asynchronous learning, synchronous learning, hybrid, and on-campus deliveries, including evenings and weekends.

The Business Administration – Finance program will help to open doors to more career options by preparing you for specialized financial services areas, such as retirement planning or investment advising, while you continue on the path towards the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation and a pathway to the Canadian Securities Course (CSC) credential. As a result, a wider variety of financial services careers will be available to you when you graduate.

In this three-year advanced diploma program, you'll study the functional areas of business (accounting, finance, marketing, information systems, human resources, production, operations management), and take management-oriented courses that will provide an integrated perspective of business. Because this offering will ensure you have a strong educational base in business, it will prepare you to effectively function in your chosen career, leading to supervisory and management positions in business, government and service organizations.

As a graduate of this Business School program, you'll acquire a specialized knowledge of how finance functions in the corporate entity and of the financial services sector of the economy

Program Highlights

• This program, which includes a CIFP capstone course, builds a complete skill set for financial services, including IIROC license, Life License Qualification program (LLQP), Retirement Consulting Certificate and CFP designation academic requirements.
• Business Administration – Finance is also a pathway to the Canadian Securities Course (CSC) credential, and completion of this program will allow you to write the CSC exams.
• You will be eligible to write the Financial Planning Standards Council (FPSC) Level 1 exam and will have Level 1 certification in financial planning (CFP).
• If you complete the CIFP capstone course, you will be eligible to write the Level 2 exam for full CFP certification.

Career Outlook

• Financial analyst
• Investment advisor
• Sales agent
• Mortgage specialist
• Personal banking officer
• Teller
• Mutual fund advisor
• Financial planner
• Retirement planning analyst

Education Pathways

Start in a diploma program, end with a degree! Successful graduates of this Business Administration – Finance program have the opportunity to apply their credits toward further study at the degree level. Listed below are the degrees from partnering institutions that are available for this program.