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Propel Your Future with Essential Business Skills—Learn Online, Succeed Anywhere
Transform your professional journey with the Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (GDBA), where the rigour of MBA-level coursework meets exceptional flexibility—with no GMAT requirement.
Delivered entirely online, the GDBA allows you to seamlessly balance work and study, applying your new skills in real-time to drive immediate impact in your career. This program is a powerful credential, equipping you with essential business acumen and positioning you for success by laying a solid foundation for a future MBA at SFU Beedie. Embrace this opportunity to advance your expertise and achieve your career aspirations while enjoying the convenience of online learning.
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of GDBA courses transfer into the MBA
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My key lessons from the program were learning how to effectively frame and structure a problem or situation, manage a tight schedule, know what to prioritize and how to prioritize it, and identify core problems quickly and addressing them.
Bobbie Dhillon, EMBA
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Planning
G&F Financial Group
The comprehensive simulations provided the greatest learning for me. They helped change my mindset and connect the different areas of learning into a comprehensive view of how an organization runs.
Matthew Grunert, MOT MBA
Sr. Director, Digital Operations & IT
Motorola Solutions
The MSc Finance program gave me the technical foundation that I couldn’t function without. I work with clients in very senior roles, and it’s important to demonstrate your technical knowledge to gain their trust.
Christine Jakshoej Sangha, MScFin
VP of Customer Success - Capital Markets
FINCAD
The immediate impact of the GDBA has been a change in the way I approach my day professionally. I am equipped to make better decisions. My confidence level has been elevated significantly, and I am enjoying a new sense of optimism in my career.
Percival Chang, GDBA
Manager & Investment Funds Advisor
PH&N Investment Services
I always saw myself working beyond clinical pharmacy. I felt that I could also shine on the business side of healthcare. I knew that with my strong clinical training an MBA would help open more doors and give me the mobility I was looking for in my career.
Morenike Akinyemi, FT MBA
Senior Project Manager, Transformation Delivery
Provincial Health Services Authority
The Part-Time MBA was excellent. It gave me exactly what I expected to receive, and I think that is the highest compliment you can pay a program. It met all my expectations and provided a solid grounding in business skills and strategies.
Oliver Zihlmann, PT MBA
Director of Development and Alumni Engagement
UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences
The i2I program is perfect for people like me who are deeply involved in science, and who want to look for opportunities in the business world. A program like this opens your mind and teaches you that there is another world of possibilities outside of the lab.
Elena Groppa, i2I
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medicine
University of British Columbia Biomedical Research Centre
The learners I work with are 95% Indigenous, and I find that they become more interested and retain information more, when we speak and learn from an Indigenous lens. The Indigenous content integrated into the program has been very beneficial to me in terms of how I can incorporate Indigenous information into the curriculum I currently teach.
Wanda Rockthunder, EMBA IBL
Business Instructor, Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies
Cree, a citizen of the Muskowekwan First Nation, Saskatchewan
EMBA: Bobbie
MOT MBA: Matthew Grunnert
MSc Fin: Christine
GDBA: Percival
FT MBA: Morenike
PT MBA: Oliver
i2I: Elena
EMBA IBL: Wanda