Geographic Sciences - Advanced Diploma - GIS for Business Concentration [Nova Scotia Community College, NSCC]

How do you find an optimal location for a new shopping centre, hospital, school, or restaurant? How do you determine a service area for a grocery supermarket? Where are potential customers for a new banking service? With the skills you develop in this concentration, you're able to address many business, socio-economic, and demographic challenges from a spatial context and present solutions visually on a map. You hone your GIS skills with a focus on enterprise solutions. You develop other geographic and business information management skills too, such as location analysis, network analysis, data mining, computer programming, and database management. You graduate with a powerful combination of marketable skills that are in demand by businesses of all sizes and by public services.