Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) - International Business

The Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) – International Business is a four-year degree covering cross-border trade, global operations and international market entry.

Specialised coursework covers international trade theory and policy, global supply chain and logistics, import and export documentation and customs procedure, international finance and foreign exchange risk, cross-cultural management and negotiation, global marketing and market entry strategy, trade agreements and compliance, and international business law.

The customs and trade documentation content is the practical differentiator. Trade compliance is technical, regulated work that most business graduates have never studied, and Canadian importers, exporters and freight forwarders consistently need people who understand it. For international students, existing language skills and market knowledge are a genuine asset in this field rather than incidental.

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 52.1101 (International business and trade). 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.