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Hone your business skills

If you already work in administration, or if you are thinking about a career in administration, the University of New Brunswick Saint John’s certificate programs in Business Administration will help you with your career.

Designed for part-time students, these programs will help you improve your analytical and decision-making skills while learning the basic principles of administration and management.

How do they work?

Our certificate programs offer undergraduate courses where lectures, discussions, and individual studies enable students to understand the theoretical framework behind general principles of administration. Drawing upon the new knowledge they learn in the classroom, as well as their previous work experience, students will more fully understand the dynamic relationship between theory and practice.

All courses for the certificates are degree-credit courses. This means that students who successfully complete certificate courses, and are then admitted to a degree program, can apply those courses to their BBA degree.

UNB saint john offers five certificate programs

Certificate in Business Administration Level I

Requirements include:

  • Accounting for Managers I & II
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
  • Managerial Finance
  • Micro and Macroeconomics
  • One Business elective (3 credit hours)
  • Two non-business courses (6 credit hours) to be approved by Faculty of Business

Total of 10 courses (30 credit hours)

Detailed program information.

Certificate in Business Administration Level II

Requirements include:

  • Certificate in Business Administration Level I
  • Accounting for Managers I & II
  • Business Decision Analysis I & II
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
  • Introduction to Human Resource Management
  • Managerial Finance
  • Two courses (6 credit hours) in Economics
  • Thirty credit hours in Arts (Humanities, Social Sciences, Languages, and Mathematics), Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Analysis, Engineering, or Science

Total of twenty courses (60 credit hours)

Detailed program information.

Certificate in Accounting

Requirements include:

  • Accounting for Managers I, II & III
  • Accounting Lab
  • Business Decision Analysis I
  • Intermediate Accounting I & II
  • Managerial Finance
  • Introduction to Management
  • Information Systems
  • Advanced Management Accounting
  • Advanced Financial Accounting
  • One Accounting or Finance Elective

Total of twelve courses (33 credit hours)

Detailed program information.

Certificate in Electronic Commerce

Requirements include:

  • Accounting for Managers I
  • Introduction to Electronic Commerce
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
  • Technology Fundamentals of Electronic Commerce
  • Industry Impact of Electronic Commerce
  • Marketing on the Internet
  • Introduction to Management Information Systems
  • Legal, Privacy and Security Issues in Electronic Commerce
  • Organizations and Electronic Commerce
  • Plus 3 credit hours of electives chosen from:
    • Frontiers in E-Commerce I
    • Consumer Behaviour
    • Management of New Enterprise
    • Accounting Information Systems
    • Management of Technology
    • Java Programming for the Internet
    • Introduction to Information and Communication Studies
    • or any other three hours approved by Faculty of Business

Total of eleven courses (33 credit hours)

Detailed program information.

Certificate in Human Resource Management

  • Requirements include:
  • Business Decision Analysis I & II
  • Introduction to Organizational Behaviour
  • Employment Law
  • Introduction to Human Resource Management
  • Business Research Methods
  • Introduction to Industrial Relations
  • Strategic Human Resource Policy
  • Plus 6 credit hours of electives chosen from:
    • Organizational Communication
    • The Management of Planned Change
    • Labour Law
    • Negotiations and Dispute Resolution
    • Recruitment and Selection
    • Training and Development
    • Compensation Structure Development
    • Evaluating and Rewarding Employee Performance
    • Management of Occupational Health and Employee Wellness
    • Management of Technology

Total of ten courses (30 credit hours)

Detailed program information.