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As a future Commerce student at DeGroote, you will be the agent of transformation in the years ahead, disrupting how we do business and significantly expanding DeGroote’s contributions to Canadian society. With an emphasis on greater collaboration across faculties, experiential learning opportunities, and fostering a vibrant sense of community, the DeGroote School of Business will best prepare you for a future in an ever-evolving business landscape.

Areas of Focus

After completing your first two foundational years within the Commerce program, you will have the opportunity to choose an area of focus. By choosing an area of focus, you may begin to align your course selection towards a specific subdiscipline within the area of business or continue learning about business broadly. Areas of focus include:

BCom with Internship

As the BCom program at DeGroote is transforming, so too is the Commerce Internship Program. This 5-year degree program, with a mandatory internship, is now open to all international students. The average salary for students in the internship program is $43,800.

Preparing You to Succeed at University and Beyond

The workplace demands more than the academic knowledge obtained from core business courses. In response, DeGroote has developed the GR0 program. This program complements our curriculum and equips you with vital skills, such as creative problemsolving, critical thinking, and collaboration. Starting in first year, you are introduced to the various supports available to you during your time at DeGroote, as well as strategies for academic success, ensuring a successful transition to university and success in the Commerce program.

DeGroote Experience Fund

The DeGroote Experience Fund (DEF) is used to help provide DeGroote students with experiential learning opportunities. Funding is available to DeGroote students or student teams for national and international competitions, conferences, leadership workshops, and a wide variety of events.

DeGroote works with many local and national companies to provide our students with the best paid internship opportunities possible. Some of the companies that hire out students include:

  • ArcelorMittal Dofasco
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch
  • Brownlow Partners
  • Celestica
  • Contrans
  • Cotiviti
  • Deloitte
  • Dyson Canada
  • Ford Motor Company of Canada
  • Geotab
  • Hamilton Health Sciences
  • Jaguar Landrover
  • KPMG
  • L3Harris
  • Laurentian Bank
  • New Balance Canada
  • OMERS
  • RBC
  • Sanofi Pasteur
  • SC Johnson & Son
  • SOTI Inc.
  • Stelco
  • Taylor Leibow
  • Toronto Hydro
  • Wells Fargo
  • Volvo Group

McLean Centre for Collaborative Discovery

The DeGroote School of Business resides on McMaster University’s main campus, centrally located in the Westdale neighbourhood of Hamilton, Ontario. It is a historic campus with 300 acres of conservation space at the western end of Lake Ontario. Hamilton is one of the largest cities in Canada, meaning plenty of opportunities to explore the arts, culture, and natural beauty of the city while pursuing your degree.

DeGroote students will soon find a new home on the McMaster University campus, the McLean Centre for Collaborative Discovery (MCCD). This 10-storey building will be the premiere destination for students across McMaster to discover, learn, and collaborate to solve business problems.

Your Classes

What you’ll take:

  • COMMERCE 1GR0 A/B – DeGroote Student Experience and Development I
  • COMMERCE 1AA3 – Introductory Financial Accounting
  • COMMERCE 1BA3 – Organizational Behaviour
  • COMMERCE 1DA3 – Business Data Analytics
  • COMMERCE 1E03 – Business Environment and Organization
  • COMMERCE 1MA3 – Introduction to Marketing
  • ECON 1BB3 – Introductory Macroeconomics
  • ECON 1BX3 – Introductory Microeconomics for Business Students
  • MATH 1M03 – Calculus for Business, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 6 Units non-Commerce electives

Learn more about your Business I requirements here.

Year 2

  • DeGroote Student Experience and Development II
  • Managerial Accounting I
  • Human Resource Management and Labour Relations
  • Decision Making with Analytics
  • Introduction to Finance
  • Managerial Finance
  • Information Systems in Management
  • Negotiations
  • Operations Management
  • Two non-Commerce electives
  • If pursuing Commerce with Internship, Career Development Course – COMMERCE 2IN0 is required

Year 3

  • DeGroote Student Experience and Development III
  • Applied Marketing Management
  • Four Commerce electives
  • Three Open electives (Commerce or non-Commerce)
  • Two non-Commerce electives

Year 4

  • DeGroote Student Experience and Development IV
  • Business Policy: Strategic Management
  • International Business
  • Five open electives (Commerce or non-Commerce)
  • Two non-Commerce electives

For detailed course lists beyond your first year, visit your academic calendar here.

For a full list of courses that can be available in this program, please consult the academic calendar.

Admissions