Program Index Business Analysis

Certificates

Business Analysis

Winter 2026
Blended

Business Analysis Professional Certificate

Business Analysis isn’t just for analysts or IT professionals—it’s for anyone looking to enhance their career and drive business results! Learn how to gather critical information, identify innovative solutions to business challenges, reduce project risks and strengthen communication with stakeholders. Applicable to so many industries and positions, you can get the skills and certification you need to advance in your current role or open doors to a new career with the skills of a business analyst in your toolkit.  The U of R offers a Business Analysis Professional Certificate.

IIBA® and BABOK® Trusted Framework

Explore the Business Analysis Process through the trusted framework of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) and the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK®). With a dynamic mix of lectures, discussions and hands-on group exercises, you'll gain practical skills to apply immediately in your workplace. 

Continuing Education is an Endorsed Education Provider™ with the IIBA®, you’ll earn 14 Continuing Development Units (CDUs) per course.

Program Requirements

You will be required to commit to a total of 14 hours of learning per module including: pre-work, after class work with your group, and on your own.

1 Intake Option Available

Winter 2026 Part-Time
Blended

Blended

Part-Time
Winter 2026
Application Deadline December 23, 2025
Start Date January 6, 2026
End Date April 29, 2026
Domestic Tuition $5,215.00

Additional Fees

Tuition and Fees
 

*Course Fee
 
$5215.00 + GST & PST
 

*Note: Tuition, Books and Supplies, and fee amounts are approximate, based on last year's program and may change at anytime.

Courses



Seminars
Seminars

In this introductory course, you learn what Business Analysis involves, what a Business Analyst does, and how the role interacts with other members of a project team.

Important Business Analysis concepts, knowledge areas, tasks, techniques and competencies are introduced then expanded upon in subsequent courses. The course content is based upon the latest Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (Version 3).

This course is a prerequisite

Date:

Jan 06, 2026 to Jan 07, 2026

Schedule:

9:00AM to 4:30PM at the University of Regina

Delivery:

Discover how to plan and monitor effective traditional and contemporary methodologies for business needs and opportunities.

Planning activities include developing a communication strategy and planning to manage changes to requirements. Identify, analyze and build your internal and external stakeholder relationships.

Prerequisite(s)

Date:

Feb 09, 2026 to Feb 11, 2026

Schedule:

1:30PM to 4:30PM

Delivery:

Strategic analysis is all about exploring the dynamics of an organization and the challenges Analysts face to meet the demands of business units while aligning with an organization's overall goals and objectives.

This course will delve into the understanding the business wants and needs, transforming those requests into solutions, evaluation methods to establish viability within the organization and steps to gain the required approvals to move the solution forward.

Prerequisite(s)

Date:

Feb 25, 2026 to Feb 27, 2026

Schedule:

1:30PM to 4:30PM

Delivery:

Aligning, coordinating and implementing requirements are complex tasks and a key part of the job for Business Analysts. 

They are the essence of requirements life cycle management. You will learn theory and practical techniques to ensure that business, stakeholder, and solution requirements and designs are synchronized and that they are contained within the delivered solution.

You will participate in practical exercises aimed at developing the skills required to promote and build the organizational capacity needed to store, retrieve and leverage business analysis information on future projects.

Prerequisite(s)

Date:

Mar 05, 2026 to Mar 06, 2026

Schedule:

9:00AM to 4:30PM at the University of Regina

Delivery:

All Business Analysts require the ability to gather relevant information from stakeholders and communicate effectively with operational or project teams.

In this course, you will learn leading practices in managing stakeholders through elicitation, documentation and validation of requirements. Emphasis is placed on the methods, techniques and best practices to managing collaboration amongst diverse stakeholder groups.

Prerequisite(s)

Date:

Mar 19, 2026 to Mar 20, 2026

Schedule:

9:00AM to 4:30PM at the University of Regina

Delivery:

In this session,  you will review two final areas from the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (Version 3).

Learn about specifying and modeling requirements, defining requirement architecture, designing options, and analyzing potential value and recommending solutions. You will also learn about measuring solution performance, analyzing performance measures, assessing solution and enterprise limitations as well as recommending actions to increase solution value.

Prerequisite(s)

Date:

Apr 13, 2026 to Apr 15, 2026

Schedule:

1:30PM to 4:30PM

Delivery:

This final course takes students through the entire lifecycle of a business analyst case requiring them to employ the knowledge gained from previous courses.

You will go through the exercise of best practices, strategies, needs and opportunities, system requirements and the implementation and communication of a business solution.
 

This seminar is taken last

Prerequisite(s)

Date:

Apr 28, 2026 to Apr 29, 2026

Schedule:

9:00AM to 4:30PM at the University of Regina

Delivery: