High School Student - Business

Business is everyone’s business. Make your degree work for you. Business literacy is a must, with transferable skills for success wherever your career takes you.

Learn about the principles of business organization and operations; marketing tactics; funding strategies and finances; leadership; business ethics; collaboration; and communications.

Specializations

Custom design your studies with the fundamentals of business and then complement this with subjects that match your interests and goals.

You can be as broad or specific as you want in one of seven specializations:

• Accounting: Complete the courses you need to pursue your CPA when you graduate.
• Finance: Learn about banking, insurance, capital projects, investing and portfolio management.
• Human Resources: Learn about talent acquisition, employee compensation and benefits, training and maintaining a productive workforce, and labour laws and standards.
• International Business: Explore global currencies, trade and industry practices of Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America.
• Management: Learn the challenges of running various types of enterprises including for-profit, not-for-profit, small and large businesses.
• Marketing: Explore how product, price, place and promotion meet consumer needs and achieve company objectives.
• Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship: Study key strategies for starting and maintaining a successful new venture.

Practise your business savvy

In our Business Management Simulation course, you run a virtual business over one semester—making business decisions and managing the results.

In Business Analytics, learn the core techniques of data analysis, including data mining, pattern detection, graphic visualization and modelling.

Prepare a business plan for a new business, then showcase the business at the Business Tradeshow on campus—a student favourite.