Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) - Human Resources Management

The Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) – Human Resources Management is a four-year degree covering the HR function at both operational and strategic levels.

Specialised coursework covers recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits design, training and development, performance management, employment and labour law in Ontario, labour relations and collective bargaining, occupational health and safety, organisational development and change, HR analytics and metrics, and strategic human resource planning.

The degree is built around the coursework requirements for the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation in Ontario, which is the practical reason to choose it over a graduate certificate. HR analytics is the content that increasingly separates candidates — the function has moved from administration to workforce data and planning.

All Humber Bachelor of Commerce degrees share a common business core across the first two years: financial and managerial accounting, microeconomics and macroeconomics, business mathematics and statistics, marketing principles, organisational behaviour, business law, information systems, operations management and business communication. Specialisation deepens through years three and four, alongside a work placement.

The work placement is a graded part of the program, so you finish with documented Canadian experience and a referee rather than only a transcript.

Humber Polytechnic — formerly Humber College — is Ontario’s largest public college and a Designated Learning Institution (DLI O19376943122). The Lakeshore campus sits on the shore of Lake Ontario in south Etobicoke, next to Colonel Samuel Smith Park, and is home to Humber’s business degrees, media and creative arts, and social and community services programs. Heritage buildings, a residence opened in 2024 and a free shuttle to the North campus make it the most distinctive of Humber’s sites.

Its field maps to CIP 52.1001 (Human resources management). Because this is a degree, graduates are exempt from the November 2024 PGWP field-of-study restriction that applies to college credentials. Full-time on-campus study and graduation remain the conditions, and IRCC makes the final decision.