Blend practical experience with real-world business training and gain the confidence to lead, make bold decisions, and shape your future on your own terms.
The Business Administration and Management (BAM) Diploma at triOS College is built for individuals ready to grow into leadership roles and navigate the demands of today’s evolving business landscape. With half-day classes offered just four days per week, the program offers the flexibility needed to keep working, support family, or focus on personal goals, without delaying your education.
Students gain a well-rounded education in core business principles such as management, marketing, human resources, and business law, while also developing the digital skills modern employers expect. Training on widely used tools like Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and Sage 50 prepares graduates to hit the ground running in a variety of business settings.
Beyond technical knowledge, the program emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and communication. Through lessons in team dynamics, customer service, and workplace diversity, students build the interpersonal skills needed to lead with confidence and adapt in a range of professional environments.
Career Opportunities
As a Business Administration and Management graduate, you will qualify for positions such as:
Operations Coordinator
Office Administrator
Business Analyst
Accounting Specialist
Some career and education options may require advanced degrees and further training or experience.
Employers Who Have Hired triOS Grads
Ontario Ministry of Health
Scotiabank
Region of Peel
Porter Airlines
Service Canada
Salary
$28
Average Wage/HR**
$45
High Wage/HR**
Source: workingincanada.gc.ca
NOC Code: 13100, 64409 - Wage data is based on NOC Code 13100 and rounded down to the nearest dollar. Average wage doesn't reflect the starting salary but represents the middle value between lowest to highest wages. Local (or regional) income may vary. Last updated: December 2024.
Program Details
At triOS College, we know that turning a good idea into real results takes more than ambition: it takes the right skills, strategy, and mindset. The 49-week Business Administration and Management (BAM) Diploma provides the foundation needed to launch or advance a career in business with purpose and confidence.
Students start by developing key workplace skills in communication, career planning, and digital literacy. As the program moves forward, they explore topics like project coordination, organizational behaviour, and leadership strategies, giving them the tools to manage operations, support teams, and lead change.
Courses in digital business, branding, and marketing strategy provide a modern perspective on engaging customers and driving growth. With a focus on innovation and entrepreneurial thinking, students are encouraged to apply what they learn in practical, results-driven ways—whether that means stepping into a leadership role or starting a business from the ground up.
Additional training in human resources, employment law, and financial operations helps students understand how to manage people, processes, and budgets. Hands-on experience with accounting software and digital tools further ensures they graduate ready to meet industry demands.
The program concludes with an 8-week internship, giving students a chance to apply their knowledge in a real-world environment, make industry connections, and gain experience that can’t be taught in a classroom. Career services like resume coaching, LinkedIn optimization, and job search support are available throughout the program to help students transition into the workforce with confidence.
Whether you’re aiming to advance your career, change direction, or start something of your own, the BAM Diploma at triOS College gives you the skills and support to take the next step with clarity and purpose.
Course Listings
Introduction to Accounting with Quickbooks
This course introduces basic accounting concepts and procedures. This course addresses double-entry accounting, analysis of source information, classes of transactions, and the accounting cycle. Using these critical concepts, accounting skills are applied and integrated to record transactions using proper procedures and forms in both a manual and computerized accounting system, QuickBooks.
Intermediate Accounting with Sage 50
This course continues the exploration of accounting procedures in payroll, petty cash, and bank reconciliations. Central to this course is the merchandising firm and its accounting cycle, appropriate valuation of inventory, and cost of goods sold calculations. This material will be applied in both a manual and computerized accounting system, Sage 50.
Business Administration and Management Internship
On successful completion of the classroom hours of this program, you will be placed in a 200-hour internship at an outside organization. You will have the opportunity to apply your newly developed knowledge and skills in a real-world environment.
Digital Marketing Foundations
This course provides a solid foundation in the strategic, tactical, and creative essentials of digital marketing. You will be introduced to many core concepts related to marketing communications and learn the fundamentals of digital marketing, including how it is different from traditional marketing. This course includes budgeting and its considerations. You will also have the opportunity to create a brand style guide and an analytics dashboard.
Introduction to Databases (using Microsoft Access)
This course covers the basic functions and features of Access. You will learn how to design and create databases; work with tables, fields, and records; sort and filter data; and create queries, forms, and reports.
Advanced Microsoft Excel
This course is aimed at students who have completed the Intermediate Excel course who need to learn more complex functions, data manipulation, templates, advanced formulas and functions, securing and sharing tools, pivot tables, and analysis tools.
Business Communication
This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of communication skills in business environments. Focus will be placed on both written and spoken communications. You will review the basic writing process with emphasis on the mechanics of writing. You will also learn the importance of effective spoken communication, deliver an oral presentation, and participate in a mock meeting.
Business Law
This course provides a study of the Canadian legal system and its effect on business and business organizations. Topics include business law, contracts and sales, torts, consumer protection issues, employment issues, the regulation of business organizations, finance, and debtor and creditor law. On completion, you will know about the various important areas of law impacting business and be able to apply the same in day-to-day decisions.
Client Relations
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of how a strong relationship with clients is developed and maintained. Professionalism, the importance of living up to obligations, and the various forms of prompt and attentive communication are discussed. The course will also provide you with the skills you need to articulate organization image and how to identify and adapt to specific client behavior styles and how to measure and take corrective actions to provide client satisfaction and ensure positive relations. The course also introduces practical techniques needed to deal with clients that are angry and upset and explains the significance of maintaining and encouraging the loyalty of clients.
Career Planning and Preparation - Level 2
This module builds on concepts and skills introduced in the Career Planning and Preparation Level 1 module. In this subsequent module, you will update and refine your résumé and LinkedIn Profile. You will continue writing cover letters and learn the value of customizing cover letters to specific job postings. You will have the opportunity to apply this knowledge as you conduct a job search and write a cover letter tailored to an ideal job post. Through research, you will create a list of top employers and target current industry opportunities. You will learn about current methods for applying to job postings using technology. You will also gain an understanding of the job interview process, typical interview questions and possible responses, and expectations of both the interviewer and interviewee. In addition, you will engage in practical application of the interview process through role-play. Topics such as negotiating salary, self-management, and on-the-job success for placements and post-graduate employment will be also covered.
Digital Literacy for Professionals
This course introduces the fundamental concepts and principles of learning and working in a digital environment. This course will cover the following elements: using devices and handling information, creating and editing information, communicating and collaborating, and being safe and responsible online.
Diversity in the Workplace
This course introduces diversity and its strengths in the workplace. Among the topics covered are the strengths of diversity, its occasional challenges, how to manage diversity in the workplace, and the value of diversity training. Diversity in group dynamics is also addressed, with an emphasis on the strengths of a heterogeneous group and types of diversity.
Microsoft Excel
This Microsoft Office Excel course is created to help you build and validate the skills needed to succeed in today's economy. It will also provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to use Microsoft Office Excel effectively in all aspects of your personal and professional lives. Excel is the world's most popular spreadsheet software. Whether you are managing a household or running a small business, Excel will help you develop useful techniques to help business processes. This course is computer intensive and demands basic computer proficiency and a basic understanding of spreadsheet software. You are expected to make arrangements to meet proficiency needs as necessary.
Interpersonal Communication
Effective interpersonal communication is vital for the success of any organization. It impacts working relationships, productivity, and a variety of other business activities. This course introduces the concepts of effective interpersonal communication in the workplace, considering internal and external professional relationships. You will also will learn about telephone etiquette, which will prepare you to answer calls with confidence and professionalism, respond to customer/client inquiries effectively, and handle customer/client complaints. You will leave the course prepared to navigate the complexities of interpersonal communication with colleagues and clients.
Introduction to Management
This course provides a foundation in the essentials of front-line management and supervision. The focus will be on practical supervisory management skills and day-to-day problem management by addressing the key functions of management and ethical decision-making. Topics include leadership, controlling, planning and organizing, team management, motivation, strategy, processes, style, and information.
Introduction to Marketing
In this course you will learn and understand the importance, impact, and role of marketing and marketing activities and the internal and external factors that will impact a marketing plan. You will learn how to effectively plan marketing activities strategically, based on conducting marketing research. You will also learn how to identify target customers and their needs.
Microsoft Outlook
This Microsoft Outlook course builds and validates the skills businesses need to succeed in today's information economy. It will also provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to use to effectively manage emails, contacts, calendars, and tasks. Outlook has become the corporate standard electronic personal organizer. These are the foundational skills needed to communicate using Outlook in a variety of positions within an organization. This course is computer intensive and demands basic computer proficiency and a basic understanding of email software. You are expected to make arrangements to meet proficiency needs.
Microsoft PowerPoint
This course will show you how to create and modify basic presentations by using Microsoft Office PowerPoint. You will explore the PowerPoint environment and create a presentation; you will format text on slides to enhance clarity and visual appeal; and you will also add and modify graphical objects in order to finalize and deliver a presentation. This course is computer intensive and demands basic computer proficiency and a basic understanding of PowerPoint software. You are expected to ensure you meet proficiency requirements for working in this environment.
Student Success Strategies
This course stresses the importance of developing non-technical skills to enhance personal, academic, and career success. The course will address strategies that are important for all adult learners, such as managing finances, maintaining health and wellness, understanding learning styles, setting goals, and honing practical study skills (such as memory, reading, and test-taking techniques). In addition, this course emphasizes strategies needed to succeed in your program, such as navigating technology efficiently, interacting and engaging with peers and facilitators/instructors, and managing learning time and space.
Microsoft Word
This Microsoft Office Word course is created for you to build and validate the skills businesses need to succeed in today's information economy. It also provides you with the skills and knowledge you need to use Microsoft Office Word effectively in all aspects of your personal and professional lives. Word is the world's most popular word processing software. Learning how to create, edit, format and print documents, enhance work with formatting, use bullets and numbering, add simple borders, tables, headers/footers, organizing data columns, and styles, are the foundational skills needed to perform in many positions. This course is computer intensive and demands basic computer proficiency and a basic understanding of word processing software. The course combines Theory/demonstration by an instructor with readings, trainings, projects, and a final exam for you to work on in a simulation-based environment. You are expected to ensure you meet proficiency requirements for working in this environment.
Principles of Human Resources Management
In this course, you will explore the theory and practice of managing human resources and learn about the fundamental functions and competencies needed by HR practitioners and supervisors today. You will discover the employee life-cycle from job design, recruitment, and orientation to training and career development, discipline, and performance management. HRM provides an understanding of the systems and processes needed to develop and use the talents and energies of employees for the firm to gain a competitive advantage.
Organizational Behaviour
In this course, you will assess the impacts of human behaviour on organizational performance through the study of personal values and perceptions, motivational techniques, effective utilization of teamwork, conflict resolution options, negotiation processes, leadership styles, approaches to decision-making, options for organizational structure, and change management. You will learn to predict potential impacts of human resources policies and practices on employee behaviour as well as recommend management practices to effectively address specific employee behaviours.
Recruitment and Selection
In this course, you will be supported in crafting and assessing recruitment strategies, covering aspects like recruitment, interviewing, and orientation. You will acquire skills for creating selection processes, utilizing valid assessment tools, and aligning recruitment and selection practices with organizational goals. The curriculum also encompasses effective advertising methods to attract candidates.
Admission Requirements
1. Student has an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, OR
Is 18 years of age or older on or before the program begins AND can pass a qualifying test that has been approved by the
Superintendent. *
2. The approved qualifying test for this program is the Wonderlic test. A passing score for this program is 16.
*Applicants from other Canadian provinces must be at least 19 years of age and a minimum of 1 year out of high school by the
program start date and successfully pass an academic achievement test.
International Students: Please contact us for more details regarding admissions requirements.
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triOS provided a great opportunity when it was needed in my life. At a point when my career had come to a standstill, after several changes, triOS presented me with the opportunity to pursue a new career that I had only dreamed of in my youth. I have a bright new future that I'm extremely proud to pursue and grateful to triOS for the opportunity.
