Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) in International Commerce and Global Development

at Niagara College - Niagara on the Lake Campus Canada

Are you a service-oriented professional looking to increase your managerial and leadership skills in preparation for a larger hospitality or tourism role in Canada or across the globe?
As a graduate of the Hospitality and Tourism Management program you will have the specialized training needed to take on increasingly senior roles in the global hospitality and tourism marketplace.

Program Highlights

• Gain managerial, communication and leadership skills critical to your success.
• The 125-acre Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake is located in the heart of Canada’s growing hospitality and tourism industry with full-service living labs including the NC Teaching Spa and Benchmark, a student-led restaurant.
• Strong focus on developing leadership through technology and teamwork with a program outline shaped by industry professionals.
• Gain hands-on learning through service learning that offers specific niche experience in hospitality and tourism, or research opportunities.
   

Do you have a passion for science combined with a keen desire to work with, and for, nature?
As a Greenhouse Technician graduate you will have a strong understanding of balanced plant environment, pest management technology and labour management policies, and will have the ability to successfully manage a greenhouse or nursery. 

Program Highlights

• The 125-acre Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus is located in the heart of Canada’s expanding greenhouse industry and serves as a living lab for students including Ontario’s largest training greenhouse, container and field nursery operations, and on-site greenhouse equipment.
• Gain practical greenhouse experience working with an integrated pest management system.
• Connect with greenhouse leaders via extensive field trips to local ornamental and vegetable greenhouses and industry trade shows.

Do you have an interest in health care and want to be part of the fast-growing area of medical office administration?
As a graduate of the Office Administration – Health Services program you will support patient relations and effectively handle medical office practices in community health-care and hospital settings

Program Highlights

• Gain practical experience using a simulated clinical management system for patient scheduling, electronic health records, and OHIP billing.
• Learn to accurately transcribe medical correspondence and reports, including a comprehensive study of anatomy and medical terminology.
• Practicum experience provides hands-on, experiential learning in the field.

Are you interested in an exciting and rewarding career in business and want to explore your entrepreneurial and industry options?
As a Business graduate, you are ready to lead an entrepreneurial venture, take charge of the family business or improve the operational efficiency of an organization.

Program Highlights

• Develop fundamental skills to thrive in today’s fast-paced, complex business world.
• Blend of business foundation and special interest courses.
• Maximum flexibility in transferring courses from business studies at Niagara College or other post-secondary institutions.
• Pathways into select degree and advanced diploma programs at NC.

Are you a numbers aficionado who prides yourself on attention to detail and wants to invest your career in finance?
As a graduate of the Business – Accounting program you will have mastered the knowledge and skills to succeed in financial and managerial accounting roles.

Program Highlights

• Hands-on, experiential learning via case studies, computer applications and role-playing.
• Individualized support from professionally accredited/designated accounting faculty.
• Unique bridge to three-year Business Administration-Accounting (Academic or Co-op).
• Option to acquire a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation via diploma articulation to a qualifying degree program recognized by CPA Ontario.

Do you have a flair for baking and pastry arts and want to turn your talent into a successful career?
As a Baking and Pastry Chef you will be a patient and detail-oriented visionary who creates breads, cakes, cookies and pastries and is ready to meet the demand for qualified bakers in Canada’s thriving hospitality industry.

Program Highlights

• The 125-acre Daniel J. Patterson Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake is located in the heart of Ontario’s thriving hospitality industry and serves as a living lab for students including, leading-edge baking facilities, a 40-acre on-site vineyard, Teaching Brewery, Teaching Winery, Teaching Distillery, Teaching Spa, Greenhouse/Nursery, hop yard, and apiary. 
• Learning environment includes state-of-the-art equipment.
• Environmentally controlled chocolate and sugar lab.
• Program is housed at Niagara College’s Canadian Food and Wine and Institute and taught by world-class chef faculty.
• Access on-site training and employment opportunities at Benchmark, NC’s student-led restaurant, Bench-to-Go and the Bench-on-the-Go food truck.
• Community engagement through not-for-profit and catered events, recipe competitions, industry research and innovation

Do you dream of working outdoors while contributing to the sustainability of one of the most important parts of our natural food system – the pollinator?
As a commercial beekeeper you will help meet the expected demand for pollination services by various agricultural crops in Canada and around the world.

Program 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.

Do you have a knack for crunching numbers and want to gain program-related industry experience to help jumpstart your career?
As a Business Administration – Accounting (Co-op) graduate you will have the knowledge and industry experience required to open doors to a successful professional accounting or financial management career.

Program Highlights

• Hands-on, experiential learning via case studies, computer applications and role-playing.
• Individualized support from professionally designated (CPA, CA, CMA or CGA, CGA) accounting faculty.
• Network with industry leaders while working on course projects.
• Option to acquire a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation via diploma articulation to a qualifying degree program recognized by CPA Ontario.

Do you enjoy working outdoors, have an eye for design, and want to improve your community’s landscape?
As a Landscape Technician graduate you will be well-equipped to plan, design and develop beautiful and sustainable landscapes for residential and commercial clients

Program Highlights

• Campus serves as an outdoor living lab, providing unique practical learning opportunities.
• Indoor heated workshop plus horticultural yard including safe equipment training on large and small power equipment.
• Design studio provides an optimal learning environment to gain a theoretical understanding of landscape design.
• Gain experience through community landscape design/construction projects.
• Graduates are in high demand.
• Graduates can earn a diploma in greenhouse or horticulture fields with an additional year of study.

Do you enjoy working outdoors, have an eye for design, and want to improve your community’s landscape?
As a Landscape Technician graduate you will be well-equipped to plan, design and develop beautiful and sustainable landscapes for residential and commercial clients.

Program Highlights

• Campus serves as an outdoor living lab, providing unique practical learning opportunities.
• Indoor heated workshop plus horticultural yard including safe equipment training on large and small power equipment.
• Design studio provides an optimal learning environment to gain a theoretical understanding of landscape design.
• Gain experience through community landscape design/construction projects, and a co-op work term.
• Graduates are in high demand.
• Graduates can earn a co-op diploma in greenhouse or horticulture fields with an additional year of study.