Diploma in Business - Sales and Marketing

at Niagara College - Niagara on the Lake Campus Canada

This flexible, eight-month post-graduate program prepares learners for high-demand data management roles.

Graduates will be able to pull meaningful insights from large, complex data sets to support data driven decision making. Students will collect and analyze data and create visualizations to solve current and future problems. The ability to work with data and predict patterns will continue to be a critical management skill.

Program Highlights

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of ethical data management, predictive analytics, and visualizations.
• Suitable for individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, looking to add a layer of applied, analytical problem solving to their area of expertise.
• Work through case studies and interactive labs, using course competencies.
• Hybrid course delivery allows for greater flexibility.
• Applied research is present throughout the program, culminating with a capstone course in the final term.
• Software-based simulations provide competencies in team-based, real-time, competitive business scenarios.

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have communication skills and attention to detail that would make you an asset to any organization?
As a graduate of the Office Administration – Executive (Co-op) program you will have advanced administrative skills and will be market-ready to assist top executives at today’s leading organizations.

Program Highlights

• Highly regarded curriculum meets current industry needs.
• Comprehensive computer training prepares students for the Microsoft Application Specialist certification.
• Extensive hands-on industry experience gained via two co-op work terms.
• Graduates may pursue the Certified Administrative Professional (CAP) designation through the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP)

Are you interested in a business career that allows you to interact with different countries and have a direct impact on the international economy?
As a Business Administration – International Business graduate you have the skills to develop international business solutions across a wide range of industries in the increasingly competitive world economy.

Program Highlights

• Proximity to one of the world’s busiest international borders provides high-value experiential learning opportunities in international commerce.
• Emphasizes real-world application of business theories and skills that compete on a global scale.
• Experienced faculty members.
• Qualified graduates may apply for national Certified International Trade Professional (CITP) designation through the Forum for International Trade Training (FITT).

Do you have a natural ability to influence others and want to explore a career in sales and marketing?
As a Business Sales and Marketing graduate you will have the specific skills and abilities needed to play a leading role in today’s competitive business environment.

Program Highlights

• Exposure to all aspects of a sales and marketing career via applied learning opportunities that incorporate project-based learning, computer training and a flexible 120-hour immersive internship working with industry leaders. 
• Graduates have a 90 per cent success rate finding employment.
• Faculty mentorship and outstanding student success competing in provincial, national and international sales and marketing competitions.
• Sales and Marketing graduates will also earn the Certified Sales Associate (CSA) designation from the Canadian Professional Sales Association (CPSA), a national association that offers tools, sales training and resources to support the success of sales professionals. 

Are you a critical thinker with a passion for justice who would like to play a key role on an integrated legal team?
As a Law Clerk graduate you will assist lawyers and other legal professionals with all aspects of case management, statutory research and document preparation, with accuracy and a high attention to detail.

Program Highlights

• Gain practical experience and connect with industry leaders via a co-op work term.
• Benefit from hands-on, experiential learning using the latest legal system technology.
• Graduates may apply for membership to the Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario.
• Graduates may pursue further legal studies in alternative dispute resolution or paralegal studies.

Are you ready to develop your business career in the fast-paced and thriving tourism industry?
As a Tourism Management-Business Development graduate you will have the skills needed to manage tourism operations and develop innovative marketing initiatives to ensure your organization stands out from the crowd.

Program Highlights

• Unique curriculum focused on business development, attraction operations processes, sales practices, and conference operations is taught by industry experts.
• Build supervision skills based on the industry standard from the American Hotel and Lodging Association.

Are you interested in a career that combines food science with culinary skills to ensure the development of safe and delicious food from farm to table?
As a Culinary Innovation and Food Technology graduate you will be a culinary innovator with the unique ability to develop and improve foods, products and operations; reduce food safety risks and ensure regulations are met; and provide nutritional labelling and analysis.

Program Highlights

• State-of-the-art facilities and equipment.
• Strong commitment to the CFWI Research and Innovation Centre provides experiential learning opportunities to students.
• The Canadian Food and Wine Institute at Niagara College is renowned for its outstanding reputation with graduates, employers and industry partners.
• Co-op work term offers applied research experience in product development and food science.
   

Do you enjoy working outdoors, have an eye for design, and want to improve your community’s landscape?
As a Landscape Technician graduate you will be well-equipped to plan, design and develop beautiful and sustainable landscapes for residential and commercial clients

Program Highlights

• Campus serves as an outdoor living lab, providing unique practical learning opportunities.
• Indoor heated workshop plus horticultural yard including safe equipment training on large and small power equipment.
• Design studio provides an optimal learning environment to gain a theoretical understanding of landscape design.
• Gain experience through community landscape design/construction projects.
• Graduates are in high demand.
• Graduates can earn a diploma in greenhouse or horticulture fields with an additional year of study.

Are you a wine aficionado who dreams of taking your passion for reds and whites to the next level?
As a Winery and Viticulture Technician graduate you will be a key member of a winery management team, with the expertise required to develop, plant and maintain a commercial vineyard; manage daily operations; and sell and market wine.

Program Highlights

• The Canadian Food and Wine Institute at Niagara College is renowned for its outstanding reputation with graduates, employers and industry partners.
• Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus is located in the heart of Ontario’s thriving wine and hospitality industries and includes a 40-acre vineyard and the NC Teaching Winery, Canada’s first and only commercial teaching winery with state-of-the-art facilities including an analysis lab and winemaking pilot systems.
• Unmatched hands-on learning environment, including Benchmark, a student-led restaurant, Teaching Brewery, Teaching Distillery, Greenhouse/Nursery, hop yard, an apiary and world-class faculty.
• Extensive applied learning in the form of a major project working with industry partners and opportunities to work at special functions held on and off campus.
• Graduates can further their learning with NC’s Wine Business Management, Hospitality and Tourism Management or International Business Management programs.

Are you curious about global commerce? Do you want to understand international markets and engage in cross-border trade?
As an International Business graduate you will be prepared for work in a wide variety of agencies that promote global economic trade.

Program Highlights 

• Immersive global education opportunities through study exchanges and international summer school with nearly one in four companies more likely to hire someone with international experience.
• Proximity to one of the world’s busiest international borders provides unparalleled practical experience.
• Faculty with diverse international business experience provide a competitive global business perspective.
• Curriculum is grounded in the real-word application of business theories to encourage the development of the broad-based business skills needed to compete on the global stage.
• Builds your communications, organization, and analytic skills for employment in domestic and multinational enterprises.