Advanced Business Management
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This new program is developed for those that want to enhance their management and leadership skills while earning three university certificate credentials. This program includes a Management Certificate, Emerging Leaders Certificate, and Applied Project Management Certificate. In addition the program earns graduates the opportunity for the Certified in Management (CIM) designation through our partner CIM/Chartered Managers Canada.
Whether you are looking to enhance your existing skills or start a new career, the Advanced Business Management program will get you to your goals.
This program also includes many additional benefits such as: enhanced writing courses, student life opportunities, and an internship at the end of the program. The program is delivered in a fashion that allows students to work while attending school.
Domestic
Hybrid
Next Start Dates
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Tuition & Fees
$8,100: Tuition cost includes the $100.00 UWSA Fee. Costs are subject to change.*
$1,000: Textbook costs may vary depending on new, rental, used, or electronic purchasing choices. Textbooks are a requirement.
For more information regarding tuition & fees and payment options, click here.
Duration
12 months in duration, Mon-Fri, days and hours vary and classes may be scheduled during the day time or evenings from 9AM to 9PM.
Holidays and breaks provided throughout program duration.
Who Attends
- Post-secondary graduates in fields outside of business who are looking to add a specialization to their resume
- Early career professionals and new/aspiring managers
- Professionals who want to develop foundational business administration and project management skills
- Professionals interested in future leadership roles within their organization
- International students interested in gaining a Canadian perspective on business administration or management
Hybrid Program
Always an industry leader, starting in May 2022, this PACE program will incorporates a number of online courses (virtual online classroom) into the schedule. Approximately three of the ~18 courses in this full-time program will be delivered remotely in our online classrooms.
Spread throughout the program schedule are online courses, so that students continue to connect with their classmates and instructors in the classroom on a regular basis, while adding flexibility. This hybrid program provides our students more latitude in managing their school-life balance. Students are still able to access study spaces and lounges on campus if they wish on those days, or they can skip their commute entirely and complete their coursework from home, or wherever they choose.
This additional flexibility in program schedules helps students develop critical skills for the modern workplace such as using collaborative tools, listening, accountability, and adaptability, while maintaining all the benefits of in-person studies.
The hybrid programming does not impact PGWP eligibility.
Objectives & Outcomes
Objectives
This program is for individuals interested in:
- Enhancing their current knowledge and skills
- Entering or re-entering the workforce
- Exploring a change in employment focus or career transition
- Moving into a supervisory or management position
- Securing essential workplace knowledge and communication skills to complement an academic degree
Outcomes
Upon completion of this program you should be able to:
- Demonstrate effectiveness in interpersonal and team communication skills.
- Demonstrate skills in written communications by writing clear and concise messages using plain English
- Describe the major principles of business management and their interrelationships
- Employ principles of effective oral communications and effectively facilitate meetings and groups
- Explain key concepts of organizational behaviour and the behaviour of individuals and groups in organizations
- Utilize effective problem solving techniques
- Create and execute project work plans, define project scopes and deliverables, determine project resources and staffing requirements, set project milestones, develop budget proposals, and successfully close a variety of projects;
- Gain a thorough understanding of the procurement life cycle;
- Create a project management communication plans;
- Manage changes in project scope, create comprehensive risk profiles, and identify and develop mitigation and avoidance strategies;
- Foster a dynamic team environment built on collaborative relationships.
- Gain knowledge, skills and confidence for your new role in a management or leadership position
- Take your current leadership skills to the next level and acquire a credential
- Prepare to take on a leadership role in your personal or professional life
- Facilitate your whole person growth by tapping into your inspirations, passions, leader purpose, and ideals to help you make a difference in your life, in your family, your team, your organization and your community
Admission Requirements
- Be a high school graduate or hold a Mature Status Diploma.
- MUST provide High School Transcript or recognized equivalent GED or Mature Grade 12 Diploma.
OR
- Be 18 years of age or older and have completed 90 hours of coursework or more at a recognized post-secondary institution (including UWPACE) with minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher.
- MUST provide an official transcript for all previous post-secondary study (including university, CEGEP, or private college).
Work Experience
Advanced Business Management applicants must have a minimum of one year of professional work experience.
English Language Requirements
Applicants whose previous education was completed outside of Canada and where English may or may not have been the medium of instruction, must submit proof of meeting one of the accepted English language proficiency measures. Download the UWPACE English Language Requirements (PDF) for additional English proficiency tests and programs and waiver options for the English language requirement.
International Students
Please visit our detailed Admission Requirements for international students.
The University reserves the right to request English language proficiency testing result documentation for any international applicant.
Accreditation
Management Certificate accredited by Chartered Managers Canada (CIM)
Students graduating from the Management Certificate may apply for the Certified in Management designation (CIM).
Courses & Descriptions
Student Life
Find more information on student life at PACE here.
Career Opportunities
Front line and or management roles in fields such as:
- Marketing
- Sales
- Administration
- Operations
- Agriculture
- Construction
- Health-care
Certifications
Academic Credentials
On successful completion of the full-time program, you will be eligible for the following credentials:
- Applied Project Management Certificate
- Emerging Leaders Certificate
- Management Certificate
Tech Requirements
Students must have a laptop that meets the following requirements for their program (not included in tuition).
PC hardware
- CPU: Multicore Intel® or AMD processor (2 GHz or faster processor with SSE 4.2 or later) with 64-bit support.
- RAM: 8GB of RAM (16GB recommended)
- Graphics card: 2 GB of VRAM
- Hard Disk space: 256GB (500GB recommended)
- Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 or 11 (64 bit) (versions Windows 10 versions 20H2, 21H1, 21H2, and Windows 11 version 21H2)
Apple hardware
- Processor: Multicore Intel® processor (2 GHz or faster processor with SSE 4.2 or later) with 64-bit support or Apple silicon/M1
- Operating system: macOS 12.0 (Monterey), version 11 (big sur) and version 10.15 (Catalina)
- RAM: 8GB (16GB recommended)
- Hard disk space: 256GB (500GB SSD recommended)
- Software to run Virtualization for Microsoft Windows
- Parallels Desktop or VirtualBox
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