Event Management (1 Year Graduate Certificate)

Are you interested in creating experiences? Do you have a passion for taking events from idea to execution? Do you want to expand on your current education or career? Graduates emerge with a business-oriented skill set and are prepared to successfully manage and promote a wide variety of events including fundraisers, festivals, entertainment and sporting events, meetings and conferences.

Highlights

• Award-winning program provides comprehensive training, builds professional competencies and develops project management techniques for the multi-faceted event industry.
• Gain skills in planning and logistics, public relations (PR), marketing and sponsorship strategies, and volunteer and risk management procedures via an experiential learning environment that includes field placements and live-event execution.
• Graduates can seek professional recognition from key national organizations.
• Graduates well-connected to the industry through valuable networking opportunities.
• Access to scholarships and awards, including an exclusive event management scholarship funded by the Many Hands Project.
• Growing use of events as a marketing approach.
• Training and Certifications in the digital marketing landscape.
• Discover the business of events and how to evolve with virtual and hybrid planning techniques.
• Integrated project management principles with event management.

Career Opportunities

• Community relations and not-for-profit
• Corporate meetings and conventions
• Destination management
• Entrepreneurial and consulting
• Event management
• Festival, sports, and entertainment
• Fundraising
• Government
• Hospitality and tourism
• Marketing and public relations
• Recreation and leisure
• Virtual event planning
• Wine industry

Admission Requirements

• Ontario College Diploma (or equivalent) or Bachelor’s Degree and
• Proof of English proficiency