Program Description
Make sense of the roller coaster! If you’re interested in trying to predict the financial future, our diploma in Business Administration: Investment Management provides key skills training in a broad range of investment topics such as risk and return, portfolio evaluation, securities terminology, market operations, financial planning, the psychology of investing, insurance basics and sales techniques. You’ll develop a solid foundation for entrance into the financial services world, and benefit from a business-related work practicum.
Admission Requirements
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- High School Diploma or Adult High School Diploma or GED Diploma of High School Equivalency
- Geometry and Applications in Mathematics 112 and Functions and Relations 112
Career Possibilities
Graduates of the Business Administration: Investment Management program have a wide range of skills that can be valuable in much of the financial sector. They find employment as financial managers; insurance, real estate and brokerage managers; banking, credit and investment managers; financial and investment analysts; and securities agents.
Students may also use this diploma to gain admission to the third year of bachelor degree programs at several universities.
NOC Codes
0111 - Financial Managers
0121 - Insurance, Real Estate and Financial Brokerage Managers
0122 - Banking, Credit and Other Investment Managers
0123 - Other Business Services Managers
1112 - Financial and Investment Analysts
1113 - Securities Agents, Investment Dealers and Brokers
1114 - Other Financial Officers
Specific Considerations
The Business Administration: Investment Management program prepares students to write the Canadian Securities Course Examination or the Canadian Investment Funds Exam.
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), Crandall University (formerly 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.
Articulations
Business Administration: Investment Management has developed articulation arrangements with other institutions as follows:
| Institution: | Aukland University of Technology |
| Articulation Period: | |
| Information: | Graduates receive one and one half years credit toward a three year Bachelor of Business degree |
| Institution: | Crandall University |
| Articulation Period: | 2010-2015 |
| Information: | Graduates of the NBCC Diploma in Business Administration who are admitted to Crandall, based on a transfer credit assessment, will receive up to two years full credit toward a Bachelor of Arts degree in Organizational Management
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| Institution: | Husson University/Fredericton University |
| Articulation Period: | 2009-no end date |
| Information: | Graduates holding a Diploma of Business from NBCC may transfer up to 90 credit hours toward a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree (online). Additionally, the University of Fredericton will award a Diploma in Advanced Business Studies
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| Institution: | Mount Saint Vincent University |
| Articulation Period: | 2010-2020 |
| Information: | Graduates will receive up to two years credit toward a Bachelor of Business Administration degree |