Ontario Post-Secondary Undergraduate Business Program Assignment

ONTARIO POST-SECONDARY UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS PROGRAM ASSIGNMENT

INSTRUCTIONS

For this assignment, you are responsible for researching one post-secondary (college or university) undergraduate (first degree or diploma or certificate) business/commerce program (most likely a university Bachelor's degree such as a B. Comm or BBA or B. Acc, or college Business Degree, Diploma or Certificate) offered at one of the Ontario universities or colleges listed below.

You will then prepare a report using Google Docs or Google Slides describing that particular program.

You may use full sentences, bullet points, charts and images where appropriate.

Please do not choose a graduate business program for this assignment, for example, an MBA or Master's or PhD program.

Your summary should be prepared with an audience of potential university or college applicants from this province in mind, e.g., senior Harbord CI students. Accordingly, please focus on entry requirements for Ontario high school students only.

REQUIRED INFORMATION

The following information with respect to the 2019-2020 academic year must appear in your summary:

• full name of university or college or specific campus or affiliated college hosting program

• geographic location (i.e., city) of university or college or specific campus or affiliated college hosting program

  • full name of business school or faculty or department offering program

• full name of selected program

• full name of university degree or college degree, diploma or certificate offered

• brief summary of program

• length of program (years and/or semesters/trimesters)

• annual tuition fees and ancillary/incidental/supplementary fees plus co-op fees (if applicable) in year one and upper years of program

• estimated annual cost of books in program

• annual cost of university or college residence (brief details and range of prices)

  • annual cost of university or college meal plan (brief details and range of prices)

• school-based financial aid opportunities for first-year students including merit-based (mark-based) entrance scholarships (renewable and/or one-time only) and needs-based bursaries/grants specific to program

• OSAP (Ontario Student Assistance Program) deadlines

• high school prerequisite courses (full course names and course codes) and minimum high school grade entry requirements (top six grade 12 overall average and/or individual grade 12 course marks)

• supplementary application requirements (if applicable) for grades-plus programs only (personal essays, resumes/profiles, letters of recommendation, video interviews, etc.)

• university or college prerequisite courses (full course names and course codes) and minimum university or college grade entry requirements (overall GPA average and/or individual course marks) for delayed entry programs only, i.e., entry in second-year or beyond

• mandatory first-year and upper-year courses (full course names and course codes) within program

• specialization/major options within program (usually upper year, if any)

• co-op/internship availability including entry requirements (minimum GPA, job interview, etc.) within program (if any)

• program graduation requirements (minimum GPA, completion of co-op/internship, etc.)

• total number of first-year applicants and first-year registered students (using previous year’s statistics) in program

• program contact information (website, email address, toll-free phone number, etc.)

• any other relevant information you wish to include

Please include a title page with your assignment featuring your full name and the name of your chosen institution and program.

Your full name should also appear in the document title, once again alongside the name of your chosen institution and program, e.g., Brian Goldkind, Brock Accounting.

PROGRAM CHOICES

The following Ontario universities and colleges currently offer undergraduate business or commerce programs (name of business school in brackets where applicable):

• Brock multiple programs (Goodman) -

• Brock/Niagara College Honours Game Programming, and Honours Game Design -

• Guelph multiple programs -

• Guelph-Humber Honours BBA & Diploma in Business Administration -

• McMaster Business 1 (DeGroote) -

• McMaster IBH 1 -

• Windsor multiple programs (Odette) -

• Queen’s Commerce (Smith) -

• Western HBA with AEO (Richard Ivey) -

• Western Combined Degree with HBA (Richard Ivey) -

• Western DAN Management and Organizational Studies (MOS) -

• Western Huron University College Business Management and Organizational Studies (MOS) -

• U of T St. George (Rotman Commerce) -

• U of T Scarborough multiple programs -

• U of T Mississauga multiple programs -

• Laurentian multiple programs -

• Algoma Business Administration -

• York Business Administration (Schulich BBA) -

• York Commerce -

• Carleton multiple programs (Sprott) -

• Waterloo Accounting and Financial Management -

• Waterloo Arts and Business -

• Waterloo Mathematics/Business Administration -

• Waterloo Mathematics/Chartered Professional Accountancy -

• Laurier/Waterloo joint double degree in Business Administration and Mathematics or Computer Science -

• Laurier Honours Business Administration BBA (Lazaridis SBE) -

• Laurier double degree in Business Administration and Computer Science or Financial Mathematics (Lazaridis SBE)

• Ryerson Accounting and Finance (Ted Rogers) -

• Ryerson Business Management (Ted Rogers) -

• Ryerson Business Technology Management (Ted Rogers) -

• Ryerson Retail Management (Ted Rogers) -

• Ottawa multiple programs (Telfer) -

• Nipissing multiple programs -

• UOIT multiple programs (including Game Development and Entrepreneurship) -

• Trent multiple programs -

• Lakehead multiple programs -

• Seneca College multiple programs -

• Humber College multiple programs -

• George Brown College multiple programs -

You may want to begin your research on the OUAC website which features a comprehensive listing of every undergraduate business program offered at Ontario universities. (Choose "Canadian Citizen" and then "By University" and then click on a school to see all of the programs offered at that institution. Remember that you are searching for business/commerce programs only though for this assignment.)

You may also want to examine the CUDO website and the OU INFO website which both contain a wealth of statistical data on Ontario universities and the various programs they offer, including business and commerce programs.

And for those looking at college choices, you may want to examine the OCAS website which features a summary of all college programs offered in Ontario.

And finally, you will certainly want to refer to the specific university or college website hosting your chosen program.

EVALUATION

Your mark on this assignment will be based on the following criteria: