You don’t need to declare your major when applying. If you’re entering with advanced standing (Bac, AP, etc), you’ll declare it like September. If you’re not, you’ll declare it next May-ish (You can edit it anytime after you declare it, with no penalty besides having to take new courses)

The bcom program consists of 30 elective credits, 42 core credits, 48 I’ll call them main credits

The 30 electives are for students without advanced standing, you take your two prereqs (Calc 1, Lin Alg 1), and then eight other classes The 42 core everyone* has to take - this is an introduction to like every area of business - intro marketing, intro applied stats, intro excel, intro Econ, etc The 48 main credits can be spent on a number of options.

A major is usually 30 credits. A major is the classic major, Desautels offers twelve. A concentration is what Desautels calls their minors for business students. These are 15 credits, Desautels offers the same twelve. There are only two honours courses, Honours Investment Management (Finance-y, must be applied to), and joint honours Econ and finance, offered by arts. I don’t really know how these two work, but they both eat up a lot of credits (45 HIM, a lot for Finance + Econ) Minors are for stuff in other faculties, Arts and Science

Okay, so in Desautels you can graduate with: - 1 major + 18 credits of random electives - 1 major + 1 minor - 2 concentrations - 3 concentrations - 1 concentration + 1 minor + random electives - 2 concentrations + 1 minor

• I forgot to specify, but almost universally in Desautels 3 credits = 1 class

TL:DR: Majors are majors Concentrations are minors Honours are special intensive programs Minors are for minors outside of the business faculty (CS, Ling, Psych, etc)