The Sheridan Business – General diploma program is a flexible two-year program that explores different opportunities in business so you can decide upon a career path. The first year is a foundational curriculum shared by all business students that includes essential business skills you need to begin your career. The second year you specialize your study to include courses that meet your particular career interests and goals.
Your business diploma program will cover such topics as:
- Analysis of the business environment
- Starting a new business
- Managing a business
- Marketing
- Accounting
- Human resources
- Finance
- E-commerce management
Engaging, Hands-on Activities
Through practical, hands-on classroom activities, including such assignments as working with a team to sell a product in a non-traditional way, you learn about making business decisions, planning, working with a team, using business computer applications and how to write effective business correspondence. By the time you complete the Business diploma program, you will have well honed problem-solving abilities that will serve you well in your career.
Exceptional Faculty
Your professors are not only outstanding teachers, they are successful business people who are highly experienced in their respective fields. Through their connections in the business world, they are able to enhance your education by bringing in guest presenters and introducing you to prospective employers in the Ontario area.
Sheridan Business Career Fair
You’ll get an opportunity to network with prospective employers, distribute your résumé and learn about local career opportunities at the annual Sheridan Business Career Fair. Recruiters from more than 35 top-level local and national employers attended our most recent career event.
Sheridan’s Business college program boosts your career prospects. When you graduate from this business diploma program, you’ll be well-equipped to enter the workplace as any one of the following:
- Entry-level management position in an international business
- Entry-level manager in a manufacturing firm
- Small business office manager
- Bank staff member
- Create your own business as an entrepreneur
With a Sheridan Business diploma, you’ll be prepared to join the ranks of our Sheridan Business Hall of Fame inductees: www.brieflyspeakingbiz.wordpress.com
During the school year, be sure to join us at the Sheridan Business Career Fair. It’s where local and regional employers come to find the very best recruits for their businesses.
The Business college diploma program is offered at the Davis Campus in Brampton and the Trafalgar Road Campus in Oakville, Ontario.
Program Eligibility
Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, including these required courses:
- One English, Grade 12 (ENG4C or ENG4U)
plus
- Mathematics, Grade 12 (C or U) or mathematics, Grade 11 (M or U*)
* MBF3C does not meet this requirement.
or
Mature student status. (See "Admissions" section for details.)
Applicant Selection
Eligible applicants are selected on the basis of previous academic achievement (the average of their six highest senior-level credits, including required courses).
Applicants who do not meet the admission requirements for this program will be assessed and advised individually and may be considered for other, related programs.
Course Exemptions
Many courses within the Business programs are eligible for Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR). Students with experiential learning may be able to challenge certain courses. In addition, certain College or University credits may permit course exemptions.
The Office of the Registrar can provide information on how to apply for course exemptions.
| CODE |
TITLE |
CREDITS |
| |
|
|
| TERM 1 |
|
|
| ACCG 16971 |
Accounting 1 |
3 |
| MKTG 19439 |
Marketing 1 |
3 |
| HRMT 16127 |
Human Resource Management 1 |
3 |
| MATH 16269 |
Business Mathematics 1 |
3 |
| APPL 19402 |
Computer Applications for Business |
3 |
| GNED |
General Education Elective |
3 |
| TOTAL: |
|
18 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 2 |
|
|
| ECON 15269 |
Microeconomics |
3 |
| FINA 11079 |
Finance |
3 |
| COMM12423 |
Business Communications |
3 |
| ECOM15616 |
Introduction to E-commerce |
3 |
| GNED |
General Education Elective |
3 |
| |
|
|
| Plus one of the following: |
|
|
| |
|
|
| ACCG 17937 |
Accounting 2 |
3 |
| MKTG 10625 |
Marketing 2 |
3 |
| HRMT 15655 |
Human Resource Management 2 |
3 |
| FINA 18081 |
Money, Banking and The Economy |
3 |
| TOTAL: |
|
18 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 3 |
|
|
| GNED |
General Education Elective |
3 |
| Plus five Business electives (TBA) |
|
15 |
| |
|
|
| TOTAL: |
|
18 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 4 |
|
|
| Plus six Business electives |
|
18 |
Note: At the end of Terms 1 or 2 students in this program may elect to switch to one of the following two or three year program majors:
- Accounting
- Banking and Wealth Management (3 Years Only)
- E-Commerce Management (3 Years Only)
- Finance
- Human Resources
- Marketing
or
Remain in the two year Business - General Program.
Note: Courses subject to change.