The Business Administration Investment Management program is ideal for those interested in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where you can interact daily with a variety of clients, helping them to achieve their financial goals through careful analysis of their needs and desires.

The Investment Management program provides a solid foundation for entrance into the financial services world, by focusing on a broad range of investment topics such as risk and return, portfolio valuation, securities terminology, market operations, financial planning, the psychology of investing, insurance basics and sales techniques.

To succeed today, 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 range of business applications and, above all, professional polish. That's why employers are looking to NBCC to provide employees who are team-focused and able to manage multiple tasks.

The Investment Management 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 Investment Management program have a wide range of skills that can be applied in various areas of the financial services sector. Graduates of this program have skills that will benefit them in whichever path their business career takes.

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

• Marketing Management
• Accounting - Manual and Computerized
• Business Law
• Business Software Applications
• Financial Mathematics
• Economics
• Income Tax
• Life Insurance
• Financial Management Services
• Data Sources and Microcomputer Applications
• Canadian Securities
• Fundamental Analysis
• Standards of Business Practice
• Management Theory
• Business Communication
• Interpersonal Communications
• Professional Sales
• Behavioural Finance
• Work Practicum

1. The Business Administration Investment Management program prepares students to write the Canadian Securities Course Examination or the Canadian Investment Funds Exam.

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.