Business Diploma to the Bachelor of Administration Degree Transfer Program

Program Information

You enter into the final year of the three-year Bachelor of Administration program and can complete your degree in approximately one year, after the bridging program. If admitted, you must complete a spring/summer bridging program (with a minimum 60% average) in order to enter the fall term. The spring/summer term consists of four courses. If you did not complete an Ontario high school Grade 12 University-level Mathematics credit, or equivalent, you will need to complete Business 1036, instead of an open elective, during the spring/summer bridging program. 

The Bachelor of Administration program serves those students interested in obtaining a broad-based business education with an emphasis on general administration and entrepreneurship. This program provides a reasonable time frame for individuals employed full-time, seeking to complete a business degree on a part-time basis. Courses in this program are scheduled in the evenings, on a rotating basis, to permit students to take courses outside of regular work hours. For these reasons the program provides a vital service and linkage to the local business community.

The curriculum includes learning experiences in:

  • General knowledge and skill areas from communication abilities and ethical and analytical understanding abilities to information technology use and reflective understanding of diversity issues.
  • Management-specific knowledge and skill areas that include ethical and legal responsibilities, financial theories, market analytics, value creation through integrated production and marketing of goods, services, and information, group and individual dynamics in organizations, statistical data analysis and management science in support of decision-making processes, the influence of information technologies on the structure and processes of organizations and economies and the roles and techniques of management, and the domestic and global economic environments of organizations.

Admission Requirements

To be considered for admission, you must:

  • Complete a two-year Business Diploma from an accredited Ontario college, and
    • Your college diploma must state Business. For example, Business - Accounting or Business - Marketing
    • Graduates of a two-year College Business diploma program from outside Ontario will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
  • Achieve an overall average of at least 70% based on your courses that are related to the business field.  

Application Process

To apply, please:

  1. Use the OUAC Undergraduate Application. You may need to create an account first, if you have never applied using the Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC) before. 
  2. Select the program Business Administration (Pathways with All Ontario Colleges) (Thunder Bay & Orillia). The OUAC program code is ATK.
  3. Under Subject of Major Interest, select BAdmin Transfer - Two Year Diploma with the campus you wish to attend.
  4. As you proceed through the application process, use the Online Transcript Request, to have your transcript(s) sent to us, if applicable: 
    1. We require all of your post-secondary transcripts (i.e. from all colleges and universities attended).
    2. We do not require your high school transcript.
    3. Some colleges do not add in progress courses to their transcripts. If you are currently completing courses, you are encouraged to upload a screenshot of your upcoming winter term courses to your myInfo account. You will receive your myInfo login credentials in an acknowledgement email from us upon receipt of your application (which can take a few days after you apply using the OUAC). 

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