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Business Administration (Diploma)

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A Lazaridis Diploma in Business Administration will equip you with comprehensive business knowledge and practical skills to either enhance your career or break into the business field. Whether you’re an experienced  professional looking to add to your skillset, or someone looking to get into the business field, or start your own business, this diploma program is exactly what you’re looking for.

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Program Details

Diploma Highlights

Your future professors work hard to make sure your academic experience is current, complete and designed to open doors in your career. Here are a few things you can count on:

  • Career-Ready Curriculum: This program covers a wide range of topics, from accounting and finance, to marketing, management, and micro- and macroeconomics.
  • Award-Winning Professors: Our faculty are award-winning distinguished professors and industry executives who teach in a way that reflects the realities of today's business world.
  • Designed to Fit Your Life: This program is designed to fit your busy schedule. You’ll work towards your diploma part-time, taking courses in the evenings to fit around your life.
  • No Prior Business Education Needed: You don’t need a prior business degree – you can apply to this diploma program if you have at least three years of work experience in business or government, or if you have an undergraduate degree in another field.

Top Experiences

  • Enhance your career: With Laurier’s Career Centre, you can earn certificates, hone your interview skills, refine your resume, get personalized career consulting, or attend a career event. Set yourself apart in the job market with their dedicated support - available to both students and alumni.  

Sample Courses

  • Understanding the Business Environment
  • Functional Areas of The Organization
  • Introduction to Financial Accounting
  • Organizational Behaviour
  • Introduction to Marketing Management
  • Financial Management
To learn more about program structure, length and requirements, view the program requirements for the Diploma in Business Administration.

Admissions

  • Format: part time
  • Start: September (fall term)
  • OUAC code: UG

Admission Requirements

  • At least three years of work experience, or
  • An undergraduate degree in any discipline except business or economics, or
  • A three-year college diploma in any discipline except business or economics.

Your Next Steps

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Your Career Awaits

This diploma will teach you functional areas of administration that can translate to careers in the fields of:

  • accounting
  • finance
  • organizational behaviour
  • marketing
  • management
  • economics

Support After Graduation

Alumni for life means that you have access to Career and Employment Support offered at Laurier for your entire career.

Waterloo Campus

The Waterloo campus is tucked into about one city block, so you’re steps away from your classes, food and your new favourite study spot.

There are many ways to tour our Waterloo campus, whether that's on a guided tour with one of our Laurier student ambassadors, on your own using virtual reality, or even on-demand through one of our pre-recorded tours. See our campus spaces and start to picture yourself at Laurier.

Chat with Current Students

Want to know what it’s really like to be in this program? U Community is our Discord server where future Golden Hawks like you can connect with current students to get their first-hand stories and tips on living and learning at Laurier.

Connect with Us

Questions? Email chooselaurier@wlu.ca, call 548.889.8888 or see all contact information.


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