Offered by Mohawk College in Hamilton, Canada, HD in Business Administration - Marketing is a higher diploma in Business Administration programme. The programme runs for 3 years, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 15,268 per year (CAD 1,354 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Higher Diploma
Field:Business Administration
Duration: 3 years
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 1,354 / year
International tuition: CAD 15,268 / year
Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Equip yourself to excel in your marketing career. Build upon the learnings from two-year program 319 Business-Marketing to enhance your knowledge and skills. Choose the co-op stream in program 366 to gain valuable employment experience. Program Highlights Experiential learning including client projects, role plays, and software labs provide you with skills and confidence to excel in a variety of marketing and sales careers.Meaningful combination of theory with substantial practical application in integrated marketing communications, content and digital marketing, and other areas of sales and marketing practice.Further skill set enhancements beyond traditional marketing with courses in project management, marketing metrics, Adobe software, graphic and web design, and ethics.Grow your knowledge with up to one year of employment experience through an optional co-op program offering 3 four-month co-op work terms.Study with professors who have worked as marketing professionals and bring their expertise to the classroom.What you’ll learnPrepare a comprehensive marketing plan (product, price, promotion and place recommendations) for an external businessDevelop an integrated marketing communications plan for a local non-profit organizationEnhance verbal and written communication skills as well as learn graphic and web design concepts and software as you prepare reports and presentationsDigital and content marketing strategies and tacticsSales and Customer Relationship Management conceptsEthics and sustainability practicesProject management techniquesAdobe Creative Suite for BusinessBusiness-to-business marketing Program Length3 academic years (periods of 8 months), plus optional co-op
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent (Mohawk's own Academic Upgrading or GED routes are accepted), including Grade 12 English at the C, U or equivalent level and Grade 11 Mathematics at the C, M or U level or equivalent, with M or U level recommended; options exist for mature applicants who do not hold a diploma. Applicants whose first language is not English must demonstrate proficiency: Mohawk accepts a TOEFL score of 550 paper-based (80 internet-based), an IELTS Academic overall band of 6.0 with no individual band below 5.5, a Duolingo English Test score of 105-110 with no band below 100, or completion of Mohawk's GAS-English for Academic Purposes (478) program. Applicants short of the academic requirement can complete upgrading courses at Mohawk before applying.
Application Details
Start Date:Starts Mohawk lists on this program’s own page, checked 6 September 2026. Domestic applicants: September 2026 at Fennell Campus (FF); January 2027 at Fennell Campus (FF). International applicants: September, January intakes. Mohawk runs a Fall term from September, a Winter term from January and a Spring/Summer term from May; not every program runs every term, and the seat status shown beside a start (open, waitlist, closed) moves as intakes fill.
Application Deadline:Mohawk publishes no deadline unique to this program; the dates below are the college-wide ones.
DOMESTIC APPLICANTS (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through ontariocolleges.ca. Equal consideration date: 1 February for a September start; 1 June for a January start. Applications that reach Ontario Colleges by then are read together in the first round of offers. Applying afterwards is still allowed, but remaining seats go first-come, first-served, and a competitive program is usually full by that point. Where a program draws more qualified applicants than it has seats, Mohawk ranks them on the average of their highest senior-level final grades in the required courses, and offers go to Ontario permanent residents first, then residents of other Canadian provinces and territories, then international applicants.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS (citizens of another country without Canadian permanent residence) do not use the equal consideration dates. They apply through the OCAS International Application Service, which sets a separate deadline for each intake rather than one annual date; the current list is on Mohawk’s international apply page. For the January 2027 intake, applications opened in February 2026 and close in November 2026. Files arriving after a deadline are judged on remaining program capacity, visa status and study-permit processing time for the applicant’s region, and Mohawk states it may cap applications or impose deadlines by region. The CAD 100 application fee is non-refundable and covers up to two program choices starting in the same August-to-July academic year.
