Bachelor of Business Administration in Innovation & Sustainability
Colwood, Canada
BBA
DURATION
48 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
CAD 25,056 / per year **
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Degree completion - 3rd & 4th years | On-campus Delivery
** for international students year 3-4 $50,112
Key Summary
About: The BBA in Innovation & Sustainability lets you finish years 3 and 4 in as few as 16 months in a team-based, project-driven programme with no exams. You’ll work with live clients from businesses, nonprofits, and government to solve real challenges. The curriculum focuses on sustainability, systems thinking, and social innovation, and builds leadership, communication, and decision-making through applied experiential learning.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles in sustainable business; paths include sustainability consultant, CSR coordinator, social innovation manager, business analyst, project manager, and environmental policy advisor. Keywords: sustainability, systems thinking, experiential learning, community engagement, social enterprise, applied projects.
Channel your passion for sustaining our planet into a business education that will transform the world. Learn to move a business forward while keeping your values, like environmentalism, top of mind.
Experience is everything.
Through the BBA in Innovation and Sustainability, you’ll complete years 3 and 4 of your degree in a team-based, project-driven environment in as few as 16 months. There are no exams—instead, you’ll gain real-world experience by working with live clients from local businesses, nonprofits, and government to solve real challenges that matter.
Through a curriculum rooted in sustainability, systems thinking and social innovation, you’ll develop a strong foundation in business while applying your learning to challenging hands-on projects that have real impact with real clients. From day one, you'll strengthen your leadership, communication, and decision-making skills—graduating with the experience that employers actually value.
This program is for people who want to practice what they are learning, in a supportive space, with real consequence. Want to learn by doing? Want your class work to matter? This is the business degree for you.
Courses
Year 3 & 4 - Degree completion
The following program is for those students who have already completed years one and two of their studies (60 credits) and will be taking the Degree Completion Option. In each term students will be exploring a number of subjects while working on an applied project and as each term progresses they will continue to explore new subject areas.
Students will complete four terms over 16-months, each comprising of applied Business Projects – A, B and C have a 15-credit value, while Business Project D in Term 4 has a 9-credit value and runs concurrent with a Capstone Project (6-credits), or a choice of other completion options that extend the program by another 4-months. Each of these four terms will include work on 2-4 projects, with each projects’ length being determined by their individual complexity.
Projects may take on one of four styles: client-based, simulation, venture or challenge, and will be sourced from organizations in the private, public and non-profit sectors. In following a program comprised of a range of projects, students will build a portfolio of work that will directly demonstrate the skills acquired in business related subject areas throughout the program to their potential employers.
Subjects
- Business Model Innovation
- Communicating for Impact
- Creativity, Innovation and Design
- Business Research
- Developing Effective Teams
- Ecology and Management
- Financial Management
- Leading Change with Systems Thinking
- Marketing
- Operations and Processes
- Project Management
- Social Innovation and Social Finance
For a complete, up-to-date list of courses and subjects, visit the BBA webpage.
Financial Aid & Awards
Your education is an investment in your career and life.
Explore financial resources available to you as a student at Royal Roads University:
- loans
- bursaries, scholarships and other awards
- student research scholarships
- other funding
- emergency funding
Find an up-to-date list of financial aid and awards on this webpage.
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