BA/BS in Integrated Business and Humanities is a bachelor's degree in Commerce programme taught at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. The programme runs for 4 years. Tuition for international students is CAD 64,028 per year (CAD 10,091 per year for local students).
Integrated Business and Humanities (IBH) is a four-year honours degree that combines business education with humanities coursework emphasizing critical thinking, ethics, and communication. Leadership development runs across all four years through assessments, coaching, and workshops, building toward a capstone, while community engagement is built in through field studies and experiential learning; the program also explores social enterprise from first through fourth year and includes global and cross-cultural components, including an international partnership with an institution in South Africa. A mandatory paid internship, typically around twelve months, follows third year, supported by a required career-development course; the page lists partner organizations for internships including Deloitte, KPMG, RBC, Ford, Hamilton Health Sciences, and Islamic Relief Canada. First-year coursework includes financial accounting, organizational behaviour, microeconomics and macroeconomics, ethics, an introduction to peace studies, and language and society. The business component sits within a school accredited by AACSB. The program suits students interested in applying business skills to social, ecological, or economic challenges, and it is delivered at McMaster University's Hamilton campus.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Integrated Business and Humanities is a joint direct-entry programme between the DeGroote School of Business and the Faculty of Humanities. Ontario applicants apply through OUAC with an Ontario Secondary School Diploma including six Grade 12 U/M courses; the programme's own page does not itemise its prerequisites and defers to McMaster's central Admission Requirements Tool, which sets the specific Grade 12 courses, English U among them, required for entry. Admission is competitive on the applicant's top-six average. International applicants present a secondary credential recognised as equivalent to the OSSD, with the same prerequisites, and are assessed on the same competitive basis. Applicants whose first language is not English must submit an accepted test score: IELTS Academic 6.5 overall with no band below 6.0, or TOEFL iBT 86 overall with a minimum of 20 per component for tests taken before 21 January 2026, unless exempt through at least four years of full-time study in English.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Application deadline 15 January 2027 for domestic and international applicants; supplementary application due 1 February 2027.
