JR Shaw School of Business Programs

Find the right business career for you

Is a business career on your horizon? Whether you’re coming straight from high school, looking for a career change, or want to add to your skill set, we have options available! Check out our program categories below:

Ready to jump in? Discover the program options below or start exploring our business degrees, diplomas and certificates.

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Business Administration Diploma and Degree Programs

Whether you want to complete your Business Administration diploma or continue on to complete a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, you’ll find these programs work together. Business students start with a foundation of core business courses including Accounting, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Finance, Human Resources Management, Management and Marketing. 

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Business Administration Diploma 

If you are in a business diploma program, you will apply directly into the specialization of choice. You will still have the ability to switch your specialization at any point throughout your program!

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Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)

Business degree programs start with a common introduction to business. In year two, you will begin to take specific courses towards the concentration that you selected. The BBA - General degree program is available if you want to take courses across multiple concentrations.

If you’ve graduated with your Business Administration diploma, you can return to NAIT for two additional years to earn a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. You have the option of continuing in the same concentration, or you can change concentrations with a few additional bridging courses!

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Bachelor of Business Administration Co-op Education

Gain experience, earn money and test drive your future career with the BBA Cooperative Education Program.

Post-Diploma Business Programs and Pathways

Do you have a background in health, trades, science or technology? NAIT offers pathways into our business programs whether you want to learn skills to move into management or specialize further.

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Bachelor of Technology

  • If you’d like to build on your technical expertise and develop well-rounded leadership skills, we recommend you explore the Bachelor of Technology program. Earn a degree with only 2 additional years of study and join the only program of it’s kind in Alberta.

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Trades to Degrees

  • Have your journeyperson certificate? Our Trades to Degrees pathway gives trade professionals the opportunity to enter directly into the third year of NAIT’s Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree program.

Specialized Business Programs

Do you love working with and helping others? Whether you’re drawn to helping someone have a great experience or buy a new home, we offer programs that are focused on the customer service side of the business world.

Hospitality Management 

  • Do you love dynamic and fast-paced environments? NAIT's Hospitality Management program will help you lead in the hospitality industry! A career in hospitality is flexible, creative and will allow you to meet new people every day.

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Our programs

Degrees

Bachelor of Business Administration - Accounting Concentration

 
Credential: Degree Delivery Options: Online Day, Online Evening/Weekend, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Our degree emphasis in accounting teaches critical thinking techniques, logical analysis and problem-solving skills employers are looking for in today’s global economy.

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Bachelor of Business Administration - Entrepreneurship & Innovation Concentration

 
Credential: Degree Delivery Options: Online Day, Online Evening/Weekend, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

The BBA Entrepreneurship and Innovation concentration is for anyone who wants to start a business, lead the growth of an existing company or take an organization in a new direction.

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Bachelor of Business Administration - Finance Concentration

 
Credential: Degree Delivery Options: Online Day, Online Evening/Weekend, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

The BBA Finance concentration takes concepts beyond banking and money management to practice quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques, and deductive reasoning vital to business decisions.

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Bachelor of Business Administration - General

 
Credential: Degree Delivery Options: Online Day, Online Evening/Weekend, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Get more out of your business education with a baccalaureate degree from the JR Shaw School of Business.

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Bachelor of Business Administration - Human Resource Management Concentration

 
Credential: Degree Delivery Options: Online Day, Online Evening/Weekend, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Take your people skills to a new level. Bachelor of Business Administration Human Resource Management will show you how to attract, retain and develop people within an organization.

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Bachelor of Business Administration - Management Concentration

 
Credential: Degree Delivery Options: Online Day, Online Evening/Weekend, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) with Management emphasis will equip you to lead in business, industry, government and not-for-profit sectors.

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Bachelor of Business Administration - Marketing Concentration

 
Credential: Degree Delivery Options: Online Day, Online Evening/Weekend, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Enter the exciting, ever-changing world of marketing!

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Bachelor of Technology

 
Credential: Degree Delivery Options: On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Build on your technology diploma by earning a recognized baccalaureate degree with two additional years of study.

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Diplomas

Business Administration - Accounting

 
Credential: Diploma Delivery Options: Online Day, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Pursue a career that’s driven by data and critical to the success of business.

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Business Administration - Entrepreneurship and Innovation

 
Credential: Diploma Delivery Options: Online Day, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

This program fosters an entrepreneurial mindset and will help you develop the knowledge and skills you need to become an innovator.

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Business Administration - Finance

 
Credential: Diploma Delivery Options: Online Day, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Dig into a creative field that uses numbers and analysis to provide solutions to real business challenges.

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Business Administration - Human Resource Management

 
Credential: Diploma Delivery Options: Online Day, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Join a fascinating field powered by people. HR practitioners makes significant contributions to the success of every organization.

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Business Administration - Management

 
Credential: Diploma Delivery Options: Online Day, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Accept the challenge and take control of key business decisions by pursuing your management career.

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Business Administration - Marketing

 
Credential: Diploma Delivery Options: Online Day, On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Pursue a field in marketing where ideas are king, and every day is different.

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Hospitality Management

 
Credential: Diploma Delivery Options: On-Campus Day Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

Do you love dynamic and fast-paced environments? A career in hospitality is flexible and creative and will allow you to meet new people every day.

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Certificates

Applied Financial Services

 
Credential: Certificate Delivery Options: On-Campus Day, On-Campus Evening/Weekend, Online Day, Online Evening/Weekend, Online Flexible Delivery Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

A certificate program to fast-track your career into the financial industry in 1 year.

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Data Analytics

 
Credential: Post-Diploma Certificate Delivery Options: Online Day Application Deadline: Sep 01, 2023

This post-diploma certificate program provides you with the skills needed to inform real-world business decision-making and planning through data insights, visualizations and predictions.

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Food and Beverage Service

 
Credential: Certificate Delivery Options: Both On-Campus and Virtual Application Deadline: Sep 03, 2024

NAIT’s Food and Beverage Service certificate program will prepare you to succeed in the food and beverage industry as a front-line service professional.

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