Baccalauréat en
administration des affaires (B.A.A.)

Baccalauréat en administration des affaires (B.A.A.)
First Cycle

90 credits

The Bachelor of Business Administration program provides students with an understanding of the fundamentals of business administration and the various functions of a business. The program also aims to develop the skills, abilities and knowledge that are essential to management. The focus is on decision making, information technology, teamwork, communication and openness to the world in a business context. The program therefore trains competent professionals who can make sound and relevant decisions, in compliance with the principles of ethics and social responsibility.

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3 years Estimated duration of full-time studies
Admission Semesters Fall Winter Summer
Key features
- Certain Courses Given in English
- Distance Learning
- Double-Degree Track
- Gateway
- Integrated Pathway to the Master’s Level
- Internships
- Student Exchanges Canada
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In Brief

The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) program includes:

13 courses to be completed by all students in the program
12 concentration courses
3 courses from the experiential component (international, research or professional environment)

You may enhance your training by selecting one of the 4 optional profiles or by undertaking an integrated pathway to a master’s program.

A Dynamic Pedagogical Approach

The program emphasizes the development of skills and abilities such as communication, decision making, teamwork, autonomy, using new technologies, social responsibility, and openness to the world. A variety of learning strategies are used: case analyses, debates, oral presentations, simulations, practical assignments, and many more.

Objectives

Acquire the essential knowledge specific to each administrative science discipline.
Acquire specialized knowledge and skills in the field(s) of expertise under study.
Develop agility with current and emerging information technology specific to the business world.
Acquire the knowledge and skills required to make ethical and responsible business decisions.
Become aware of the intercultural and international dimensions of the business world.
Learn to communicate effectively while respecting others.
Learn to work effectively in teams in a variety of contexts.
Learn to propose management strategies that are adapted to various professional situations.

Studies Profiles

Sustainable Development Profile

The sustainable development profile (webpage in French only) is the ideal pathway to gain more extensive knowledge about applying the concepts of sustainable development and understanding its issues. It aims to provide an interdisciplinary experience in problem solving and develop sustainable development skills in one’s field of study. The profile includes 12 credits: 3 credits for the mandatory course titled DDU-1000 Fondements du développement durable; 3 credits for a specialized course related to the academic program’s discipline; and 6 credits that can be earned through an internship, an intervention project, or one or two specialized courses selected from a predetermined list.

Honours Profile

The honours profile (webpage in French only) puts students on a fast track to the graduate programs. It consists of an agreement of 12 credits (including 0 to 6 undergraduate credits and 6 to 12 master’s credits, based on the agreement) entered into between a bachelor’s program directorate and a master’s program directorate. The master’s-level courses are contributory to both programs.

The Bachelor of Business Administration offers the honours profile with the following programs (webpages in French only):

Entrepreneurial Profile

The entrepreneurial profile (in French only) fosters the emergence and development of skills that will enable students to take initiatives, carry out projects and manage them. This profile consists of 12 credits: 3 credits on the foundations of entrepreneurship; 6 portfolio credits; and 3 credits in connection with the academic domain or entrepreneurship.

Profil Honor

Le profil Honor entend mettre en valeur l'excellence et la motivation des étudiantes et des étudiants, grâce à un parcours enrichi qui comporte des sections de cours réservées aux cohortes du Profil.

International Profile

The international profile lets students undertake 1 or 2 semesters at a partner university located outside of Canada. Refer to the database of Université Laval’s International Office (webpage in French only) for the list of partner universities.

Continuance of Studies

Ce baccalauréat mène à des études aux cycles supérieurs, notamment dans plusieurs voies de spécialisation de la maîtrise en administration des affaires (M.B.A.) et de la maîtrise en sciences de l'administration (M. Sc.).

Program Benefits

Distance Learning

Ce programme peut être suivi partiellement ou entièrement à distance, une formule qui offre toute la souplesse que vous souhaitez pour concilier les études avec les autres sphères de votre vie. Notez toutefois que certains cours à distance peuvent nécessiter votre présence en ligne à heure fixe dans certains cas. Si vous désirez suivre ce programme entièrement à distance, vous devrez choisir la concentration Cheminement personnalisé en gestion de 12 crédits. Consultez le site de la formation à distance pour en apprendre davantage sur cette formule d'enseignement et pour connaître les activités de formation offertes à distance pour ce baccalauréat.

Certain Courses Given in English

This program offers you the option of taking certain courses in English. In these courses, although they are taught in English only, you may write your assignments and exams in French. Refer to the list of undergraduate courses (website in French only) offered in English for more details .

Student Exchanges Canada

Undertake 1 or 2 semesters in one of many Canadian universities outside Québec and improve your English skills.

Find out more about the possibilities with Student Exchanges Canada (webpage in French only).

Gateway

Do you hold a DCS in Fashion Marketing, in Accounting and Management Technology, in Insurance and Financial Services, in Business Management, in Transportation Logistics or in Real Estate Appraisal Technology? Do you have an R score of at least 26? You could be granted up to ten courses in equivalencies and shorten the length of your studies.

View all of our gateway agreements (in French only).

Double-Degree Track

The double-degree pathway allows students to simultaneously undertake studies in a master's program at Université Laval and in a foreign partner university. This pathway offers a combination of educational activities that meet the requirements of both universities. Students receive a degree from each institution.

Integrated Pathway to the Master’s Level

The integrated pathway allows you to undertake master’s-level coursework that contributes to both the bachelor’s and master’s programs, subject to a formal agreement between the directorates of the 2 programs in question. The Bachelor of Business Administration offers an integrated pathway with the following programs (webpages in French only):

Internships

As part of your program, you will have an opportunity to undertake up to 2 for-credit and paid internships in a professional setting, here or abroad, that can be completed on a full-time or part-time basis in the summer, fall or winter semesters. The team at the Service du développement professionnnel en sciences de l’administration (webpage in French only) will accompany you in your search for an internship. You can also participate in career days. These are great opportunities to meet with organizations that are currently recruiting!

Sample Track

Consult the sample track (in French only) suggested for this program.

For Whom Is This Program Intended?

The Bachelor of Business Administration is intended for anyone who likes to make decisions, solve problems and obtain concrete results, coordinating and supervising a team or project and who is interested in economics and politics. This program is for you if you like numbers, have strong analytical and adaptation skills, you are a versatile, rigorous and convincing person, you have strong people, leadership and diplomatic skills, and you can communicate easily in both French and English.

If you have studied outside of Canada, refer to the admission requirements based on your place of residence.

Your Future

The Service du développement professionnel (SDP) provides you with information on occupations, potential careers, employment statistics, and market trends. Refer to the market analyses on the SDP website (in French only).

Financial Aspects

Scholarships and Financial Aid

The Bureau des bourses et de l'aide financière (in French only) has all the information you need regarding the available sources of funding for your studies, including the various government financial aid programs and the admission, excellence and mobility scholarships.

Admission scholarships

If you graduated from a Québec college institution (CÉGEP) with an R score of at least 28, you could apply for an admission scholarship of $2,000. Nearly $450,000 in scholarships are awarded to students every year.

Program Length and Organization

Full-time or part-time.

For Whom Is This Program Intended?

If you have studied outside of Canada, refer to the admission requirements based on your place of residence.

Targeted Language Skills

To graduate, the program requires students to show at least Intermediate II English proficiency (score of at least 53 on the VEPT).

Notes Concerning the Courses

Courses Offered in French and English Versions

Thirteen core courses common to all pathways and a few concentration courses are offered in English and French. In courses offered in English, although instruction is given exclusively in that language, students may write their assignments and exams in French.

Core courses

ADM-3050 Gestion stratégique des organisations or ADM-3104 Strategic Management
CTB-1000 Comptabilité générale or CTB-1106 Introduction to Accounting
CTB-1001 Comptabilité de management or CTB-1002 Management Accounting
GSF-1000 Finance or GSF-1100 Introduction to Finance
GSF-1020 Économie de l'entreprise or GSF-1025 Business Economics
GSF-1010 Macroéconomie financière or GSF-1015 Financial Macroeconomics
GSO-1000 Opérations et logistique or GSO-1100 Operations and Logistics
MNG-1000 L'entreprise et sa gestion or MNG-1002 Management
MNG-1001 Comportement organisationnel or MNG-1103 Organizational Behavior
MNG-2000 Gestion des ressources humaines or MNG-2002 Human Resource Management
MQT-1102 Probabilités et statistique or MQT-1100 Probabilities and Statistics for Business
MRK-1000 Marketing or MRK-1101 Marketing Management
SIO-1000 Systèmes et technologies de l'information or SIO-1101 Information Systems and Technologies

Option courses

ENT-1000 Savoir entreprendre : la passion de créer et d'agir or ENT-1010 Being Entrepreneurial: Passion for Creation and Action
GSF-2102 Finance II or GSF-2106 Intermediate Finance
GIE-3100 Gestion des ressources humaines en contexte interculturel or GIE-3104 International Human Resource Management
GIE-4034 Faire des affaires aux États-Unis or GIE-4105 Doing Business in the United States
GIE-4100 Faire des affaires sur les marchés asiatiques or GIE-4103 Doing Business in Asian Markets
GSF-4039 Capital de risque or GSF-4038 Venture Capital
MNG-2100 Fondements du management international or MNG-2101 Principles of International Management
ENT-2103 Stratégies adaptées à la PME or ENT-3101 Small Business Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship
ENT-2108 Réaliser son projet entrepreneurial or ENT-2117 New Venture Creation
MNG-2109 Responsabilité sociale des entreprises et économie solidaire or MNG-2116 Corporate Social Responsibility and Solidarity Economy
MRK-2102 Le comportement du consommateur or MRK-2110 Consumer Behavior
MRK-2107 Force et techniques de vente or MRK-2111 Sales Force Management
MRK-3101 Marketing international or MRK-3102 International Marketing
MRK-3106 Simulation en développement des marchés internationaux or MRK-3107 Simulation : Development of Global Markets
MNG-3107 Stratégies d'internationalisation or MNG-3114 Strategy of Internationalization

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Eligibility

For information about the admission requirements, select the category that corresponds to your situation.

If you do not hold the degree required to be admitted into the program, but you meet all of the admission criteria for mature applicants, you may be eligible for the program.

Studies in Québec

Diplôme requis

DEC en sciences, lettres et arts

DEC en sciences de la nature

DEC en sciences informatiques et mathématiques

DEC dans le domaine des techniques administratives et avoir atteint les objectifs suivants :

Mathématiques : (0M02 ou 00UN et 0M04 ou 00UQ) ou (0PU2 ou 022X et 0PU4 ou 022Z)
objectifs obligatoires de mathématiques et de statistique du programme collégial

ou avoir réussi les cours suivants :

Mathématique : (SN2 ou NYA et SN4 ou NYC) ou (SH2 ou 103-RE et SH4 ou 105-RE)
cours obligatoires de mathématiques et de statistiques du programme collégial

Baccalauréat international, cheminement Sciences de la nature ou Sciences humaines avec mathématiques de niveau moyen

Autre DEC et avoir atteint les objectifs suivants :

Mathématiques : (0M02 ou 00UN et 0M03 ou 00UP et 0M04 ou 00UQ) ou (0PU2 ou 022X et 0PU4 ou 022Z et 0PU3 ou 022Y ou Méthodes quantitatives 0ME3 ou 022P)

ou avoir réussi les cours suivants :

Mathématiques : (SN2 ou NYA et SN3 ou NYB et SN4 ou NYC) ou (SH2 ou 103-RE et SH4 ou 105-RE et SH3 ou 203-RE ou Méthodes quantitatives 360-223-RE ou 360-300-RE)

une cote de rendement au collégial minimale de 25 pour les candidatures collégiennes et les candidatures universitaires ayant moins de 24 crédits universitaires acquis
OU une moyenne de cheminement de 2,00 sur 4,33 pour les candidatures universitaires ayant 24 crédits acquis ou plus

Préalables offerts à l'Université Laval

Les titulaires d'un DEC ayant une cote de rendement au collégial de 25 et plus et ayant déjà acquis l'un des préalables de mathématiques exigés pour le programme peuvent obtenir un délai d'une session pour réussir le ou les deux cours de mathématiques manquants. Ces cours peuvent être suivis à l'Université Laval en cours compensateurs :

MAT-103 = MAT-0150 OU MAT-0310*
MAT-105 = MAT-0130
MAT-203 OU 360-300 = MAT-0250 OU STT-0150

*Le cours MAT-0310 est destiné principalement aux personnes qui n'ont pas les acquis des mathématiques de 5^e secondaire. À celles qui ont réussi les mathématiques 526-536 ou séquence Technico-sciences ou séquence Sciences naturelles il est suggéré de suivre le cours MAT-0150 pour éviter la redondance de la matière du cours. Le cours MAT-0310 est réservé uniquement aux candidates et candidats qui visent un programme de 1^er cycle de FSA ULaval et ne remplace pas MAT-0150 pour d'autres programmes universitaires qui pourraient requérir cette exigence d'admission.

Pour connaître les équivalences entre les cours préalables, leurs objectifs ainsi que les cours compensateurs correspondants à l'Université Laval, consultez le tableau des cours collégiaux préalables à l'admission.

DEC technique

Les titulaires d'un DEC technique pourraient profiter d'une entente DEC-BAC ou d'une passerelle. L'information complète se trouve sur le site DEC-BAC et passerelles.

Studies in Canada Outside Québec

Required Diploma

high school diploma AND one year of university studies

AND

instruction deemed satisfactory in mathematics. Once your file has been analyzed, prerequisite courses may be required.

For admission to the preparatory year in business administration.

High school diploma

Technical Diploma

Holders of a technical diploma from the Collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick may benefit from a DEC-BAC or gateway agreement. Complete information can be found on the DEC-BAC and gateway website (in French only).

Selection Criteria

Applications are analyzed on the basis of the quality of the academic record.

International student

French Language Proficiency

All students admitted to this bachelor’s program must comply with the provisions regarding the application of the policy on the use of French at Université Laval (in French only).

Additional Admission Requirements for Non-Francophones

If the language of instruction in your elementary and high school studies is not French, you may be eligible on the basis of your pre-university academic record. However, you will be required to demonstrate or achieve a sufficient level of language proficiency to pursue and succeed in your studies in French.

In order to be eligible, you must pass the Test de connaissance du français (TCF). If necessary, you will be offered a French as a second language (FLS) course pathway established on the basis of your test score.

In order to support and assist you in reaching the required level of French proficiency, Université Laval offers the French Immersion Pathway. This pathway incorporates the French as a second language (FLS) courses you will have to take into your program of study. This pathway can also include courses to bring you up to the level of the targeted program of study.

Additional requirements

Laptop computer

With the inclusion of information technology and telecommunications in its academic and research activities, FSA ULaval has become a leader in this domain.

In order to draw the full benefits of this environment, all students admitted to this program are required to own a laptop computer. For more information, refer to the technological services offered by the Faculty.

Baccalauréat en
administration des affaires (B.A.A.)

In Brief

A Dynamic Pedagogical Approach

Objectives

Studies Profiles

Sustainable Development Profile

Honours Profile

Entrepreneurial Profile

Profil Honor

International Profile

Continuance of Studies

Program Benefits

Distance Learning

Certain Courses Given in English

Student Exchanges Canada

Gateway

Double-Degree Track

Integrated Pathway to the Master’s Level

Internships

Sample Track

For Whom Is This Program Intended?

Your Future

Financial Aspects

Scholarships and Financial Aid

Admission scholarships

Program Length and Organization

For Whom Is This Program Intended?

Targeted Language Skills

Notes Concerning the Courses

Eligibility

Studies in Québec

Studies in Canada Outside Québec

International student

French Language Proficiency

Additional requirements

Key

The FSA ULaval Experience

Student space (in French only)

Platform for alumni

Staff Intranet (in French only)