St. Lawrence College offers Cert in Business Fundamentals, a certificate in Business Administration programme in Kingston, Canada. The programme runs for 1 year, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 17,428 per year (CAD 2,776 per year for local students).
The one-year certificate provides a broad, exploratory business education covering business communications, business mathematics, human resources, marketing and accounting basics. It serves as the first year of several Business Core diplomas, in business, accounting, human resources and marketing.
Graduates can continue directly into one of these diploma streams or use the certificate as groundwork for further programs of study or for a career.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: St. Lawrence College's Business Fundamentals certificate requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) with the majority of Grade 11 and 12 courses at the C, U or M level, including Grade 12 English at the C or U level and Grade 11 Math at the C, U or M level; the program page notes that OSSD-equivalency options are listed under the college's general admission requirements. Students missing a prerequisite may enroll in the college's Career/College Prep program, free for Ontario residents aged 18 or older, and applicants with transcripts from outside Canada are directed to the college's transcript-evaluation process. The program page does not state its own language-proficiency scores; applicants whose first language is not English are assessed against St. Lawrence College's institution-wide scale for Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma programs: IELTS Academic 6.0 overall (no band below 5.5), TOEFL iBT 4 overall (78 under the pre-January-2026 scale), PTE Academic 55, CAEL 60, or Duolingo 110 (no sub-score below 85). Students need a Windows PC with MS Office, a webcam and a microphone.
Application Details
Start Date:September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for programmes starting September 2027 the application opens 26 September 2026, the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and later applications are assessed first-come, first-served while seats remain; St. Lawrence College names Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Communicative Disorders Assistant, Medical Laboratory Science and Practical Nursing as highly competitive, requiring transcripts and proof of enrolment by the same 1 February date to be ranked. International applicants apply through SLC's own International Application Service and are assessed on a rolling basis; the college publishes no fixed international closing date, and each Letter of Acceptance carries its own accept-and-pay deadline. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
