Graduate Certificate - Health Administration and Leadership

This one year Ontario College Graduate Certificate prepares graduates for administrative and supervisory roles in health services: health systems and policy, leadership and human resources, health informatics fundamentals, quality and risk management, and financial and project management in a health context.

The program suits health professionals moving into management and business graduates entering the health sector, and Thunder Bay provides an unusually good setting for it, with a regional hospital, a large seniors care provider and a network of community health agencies all within the city.

The published college list carries this program as PGWP aligned under CIP code 51.0704. At one year the Post Graduation Work Permit is normally limited to the program length rather than three years, and the credential does not meet the two year threshold used by the Thunder Bay Rural Community Immigration Pilot for its graduate work experience exemption.

The recorded entry standard is 3-Year Bachelor’s Degree with 60 percent, with English set at IELTS 6.5 overall and no band below 6, recorded against Ontario college program code 0294/0284/0283.5 overall and no band below 6.0. Recorded tuition is CAD 18,721 for the year, and this program carries the widest intake availability in the batch with September, January and May starts.

Two things make this the strongest of the one year graduate certificates in the catalogue. It is PGWP aligned, which several of its peers are not, and it carries the widest intake availability in the batch with September, January and May starts recorded across the 2026 to 2028 cycles. The limitation is length. One year produces a shorter work permit and does not satisfy the two year credential threshold used by the Thunder Bay immigration pilot, so students building toward permanent residence should plan a second credential or a strong local job offer.