Hons in Retail Management is a honours degree in Retail Management programme taught at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, Canada. The programme runs for 4 years. Tuition for international students is CAD 44,476 per year (CAD 11,883 per year for local students).
Retail Management is an undergraduate business program at Toronto Metropolitan University's Ted Rogers School, leading to a Bachelor of Commerce. Based at the university's downtown Toronto campus, the program prepares students for careers across retailing, one of the country's largest employment sectors, with pathways into store operations, merchandising, buying, brand management, and entrepreneurship. All students complete at least one documented internship of a single work term, and may apply in their second year to enter a co-op stream involving four work terms instead, extending the program from four to five years. Coursework combines core business subjects with retail-specific courses such as retail strategy, buying and merchandising planning, retail social media marketing, category management, consumer insights, and sector studies in areas including fashion, grocery, sports retail, and luxury retail, alongside store design and planning. The program is positioned as Canada's first to prepare students for the Category Management Association's certification exam. It suits students seeking a business degree focused specifically on retail rather than a general management stream, with an emphasis on applied, industry-connected learning through mandatory work terms.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Direct entry requires the OSSD with six Grade 12 U or M courses, including English (ENG4U/EAE4U preferred) and Mathematics (MCV4U preferred); admission is based on the aggregate average of those six courses, and the programme's own page does not publish a fixed minimum percentage. The application deadline for the intake is February 1. Applicants without Ontario schooling may be admitted with the recognised equivalent, at the university's discretion; the programme page defers to TMU's general admission requirements for English proficiency, which sets IELTS Academic 6.5 overall (no minimum band), TOEFL iBT 92, Duolingo English Test 120, PTE Academic 60 or CAEL 70. No portfolio, interview or other non-academic condition is listed for this programme.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Toronto Metropolitan University sets one guaranteed-consideration date for both domestic and international applicants applying for Fall 2027 entry: complete applications and amendments received by 1 February 2027 receive equal consideration for admission, and TMU says this same date applies to 'all domestic & international applicants.' Non-academic ('Grades-Plus') requirements are generally due around this point too, though the exact date varies by programme. For Winter 2027 (January-start) entry, TMU's program-status page gives domestic applicants a guaranteed-consideration date of 1 December 2026, with most programmes closing applications in mid-December; a limited number of programmes separately accept international applications for winter admission subject to space availability, but TMU publishes no fixed closing date for those international winter applicants. Admission is not rolling: late applications are considered only as space allows after the guaranteed-consideration date. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
