If you are interested in a career as a manager, an entrepreneur or working in an office, the Business Administration program will provide you with the broad exposure you need to suceeed in today's business world. This program trains you in a variety of areas including: accounting, financial math, marketing, management, human relations, law, economics and computer concepts. Skills developed in this program provide you with the training to work in a number of places. To succeed, every business requires employees who can respond to the changing needs of the workplace. Today's job market demands capable, motivated, business-savvy individuals who exhibit proficiency in a wide range of business applications and, above all, professional polish - this is what you will gain at NBCC. The Business Administration program includes an unpaid, business-related work practicum. This practicum is arranged through the campus and helps you to form a critical link between education and industry.

• High School Diploma or Adult High School Diploma or GED Diploma of High School Equivalency
• Required Mathematics:
• • Geometry and Applications in Mathematics 112 and Functions and Relations 112

Graduates of the Business Administration Diploma have a wide range of skills that can be valuable for any large or small-sized business. They find employment in areas such as payroll, general management, operations, sales, retailing, bookkeeping, financial services and entrepreneurship.

1211 - Supervisors, General Office and Administrative Support Clerks
1221 - Administrative Officers
1222 - Executive Assistants
1231 - Bookkeepers
1441 - Administrative Clerks
1442 - Personnel Clerks
1452 - Correspondence, Publication and Related Clerks
1474 - Purchasing and Inventory Clerks

• Marketing Management
• Accounting - Manual and Computerized
• Business Law
• Business Software Applications
• Financial Mathematics
• Economics
• Statistics
• Market Research
• Computer Marketing Applications
• Management
• Human Relations
• Small Business Management
• On-the-Job Training

1. Graduates of the Business Administration program may be eligible for recognition of credit through the Institute of Canadian Bankers, Canadian Institute of Management, Canadian Payroll Association (CPA), Canadian Professional Sales Association (CPSA), Canadian Retail Institute and various other associations.

2. Graduates of the two-year Business Administration program who have achieved a minimum of a 70% average each program year may be able to transfer into the third year of a four-year degree program at Cape Breton University (CBU), Atlantic Baptist University (ABU) or the University of New Brunswick Saint John (UNBSJ).

NBCC is committed to furthering our university relationships; therefore, other university agreements may be available.

3. Many other universities give credit for courses completed in the Business Administration program.

4. This is a L.I.V.E. program (Learning Integrated Virtually Everywhere). NBCC L.I.V.E. students have a world of knowledge at their fingertips via the NBCC wireless network. Classes in the L.I.V.E. program are different from traditional classes. Students may find themselves completing class assignments online or maintaining an electronic journal. When not in the classroom, students can still communicate with their classmates and instructors in an electronic medium, measure their knowledge through online tests, or simply conduct research on the Internet.

Students registering in this program will be responsible for technology fees, in addition to tuition and textbook costs. Details regarding the technology fee, purchasing (or leasing) a laptop computer and the software required for the program will be provided in the information kit which you will receive upon acceptance into the program.