Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) - Healthcare Management

The Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) – Healthcare Management applies business education specifically to health system administration — a comparatively rare degree in Canada.

Specialised coursework covers the structure and financing of the Canadian healthcare system, health policy and legislation, healthcare operations and patient flow management, health informatics and data systems, quality improvement and patient safety methodology, health economics, healthcare human resources and interprofessional teams, health law and privacy legislation, and strategic planning in health organisations.

The market logic is strong. Hospitals, long-term care operators, home care agencies and health authorities are large, complex organisations that need administrators who understand both management and the clinical environment — and most business graduates have no health system knowledge, while most clinicians have no management training.

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 51.0701 (Health services administration). 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.