Whether you dream about being an entrepreneur, working for a global brand, or helping a startup grow, Waterloo's business programs will give you the future-focused skills to succeed.
You'll graduate with two areas of expertise: a deep knowledge of a specific subject (your major) – plus skills in marketing, finance, accounting, entrepreneurship, and more.
With the combination of business skills and your major, you might help biotech firms commercialize their research, help a clean energy company grow, or promote a major league team's run for the championship.
Business programs
- Accounting and Financial Management
- Business Administration (Laurier) and Computer Science (Waterloo) Double Degree
- Business Administration (Laurier) and Mathematics (Waterloo) Double Degree
- Computing and Financial Management
- Environment and Business
- Global Business and Digital Arts
- Honours Arts and Business
- Information Technology Management
- Management Engineering
- Mathematical Finance
- Mathematics/Business Administration
- Mathematics/Chartered Professional Accountancy
- Mathematics/Financial Analysis and Risk Management
- Science and Business
- Science and Financial Management
- Sport and Recreation Management
- Sustainability and Financial Management
Business + paid co-op work experience
Gain up to two years of paid work experience while testing out careers before you graduate. Work for Fortune 500 companies, startups developing the next big idea, government, non-profits, and everything in between.
PitchBook, which tracks investments in venture capital and private equity markets, found that Waterloo produced 562 founders with undergraduate degrees and 478 companies which raised $20 billion USD in capital over the last decade. Source: 2025 PitchBook university rankings.
Commercial real estate firm CBRE highlighted the high concentration of tech workers in Waterloo Region, a thriving tech ecosystem, the talent of Waterloo graduates, and growth in jobs.
Why choose business at Waterloo?
Turn your ideas into action
Whether your passion is tech, social justice, Indigenous-based businesses, or environmental change, Waterloo's support for student entrepreneurs provides space and tools for you to explore your ideas.
Among the top entrepreneurial communities
Ranked among the world’s top ecosystems for entrepreneurs, Waterloo region offers business incubators, funding, and a supportive network of other startups.
Own your ideas
Unlike most universities where ideas belong to the institution, Waterloo allows you to capitalize on the ideas you generate through one of North America's most entrepreneurial-oriented intellectual property (IP) policies.
That means you can easily turn your ideas into a business with lots of on-campus support.
Sharpen your entrepreneurial edge
Build the skills to innovate, launch, and lead. No matter what program you study, with the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business you can:
- take hands-on courses in business, entrepreneurship, and technology
- add an Entrepreneurship Minor to your degree
- gain experience through specialized entrepreneurial co-op opportunities
Launch your own business while earning a co-op credit
Enterprise Co-op (E Co-op) allows you to start or work on your own business while earning a co-op credit.
Supporting your success
Our on-campus Accelerator Centre has helped launch more than 1,000 startups which have raised more than $2 billion in funding.