Business Administration Marketing - Advanced Diploma

You begin the Business Administration – Marketing program with a strong foundational understanding of business and its disciplines and scaffold your marketing abilities over three years. You develop your marketing skills in a hands-on, experiential learning environment focusing on consumer behaviour, integrated marketing communications, professional selling, marketing metrics and analysis, design and digital experience, retail marketing and e-commerce, teamwork and planning. You create value for the marketplace and open doors to ever-increasing marketing management opportunities.

Senior-level courses include marketing analytics, digital and content marketing, business simulations, account and customer relationship management, and customized certifications, and two marketing placements, all of which culminate with a full marketing plan for real clients.

With a holistic approach to career readiness you take part in Emotional Intelligence, and Work Place Big 5 self-assessments, career fairs, dining etiquette and intense professional development. You meet regularly with faculty to review customized development plans to pursue relevant personal goals.
Enjoy and be challenged by small class sizes where the majority of your professors are full-time with both academic and industry experience to develop your talents. Meet some of your professors. Your classrooms are well equipped and you engage with applied teamwork, research, time and stress management, presentations, guest speakers, and public speaking. Over three years your changes in approach and behaviour become permanent to prepare you for a successful career.

PLACEMENT

You enjoy the opportunity to apply what you learn and contribute to an organization during two marketing placements. In second year you participate in placement two days a week over seven weeks for a total of 112 hours. Third year placement allows you to take a deep dive into the working world with a six week placement for a total of 240 hours.

Students enjoy of the benefit of networking with placement prospects who are part of an extensive data base. They typically hone in on a marketing skill they are wanting to develop and then seek out placements who have related work for the all-important win win.