Five Routes to Your Future
Do you have a passion to assist others in reaching their goals? Work well in an aspiring environment? Adaptable? Interested in keeping current with trends and technology? If yes, consider these options below.
Food and Nutrition Management
Be prepared. This industry has a high demand for qualified candidates. This program prepares you for the combined dynamic world of food service with the expanding world of healthcare. There is an increasing focus on health, nutrition, and keeping fit for life. Your options may include working in hospitals, long-term care and retirement facilities, and corporate food service organizations. Your potential job may include Food and Beverage Manager, Food Service Supervisor, and Sales Associate in the food service industry.
Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Promotion
Inspire healthier living across all ages with Canada’s only diploma in Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Promotion. Blend evidence-based nutrition education with practical skills in coaching, healthy cooking, menu planning, and wellness promotion. With shared pathways to additional diplomas and degrees, you can graduate with multiple credentials — opening doors to careers in health coaching, corporate wellness, fitness centres, and more.
Fitness and Health Promotion
Step into a thriving wellness industry with Humber’s Fitness and Health Promotion diploma—where expert faculty, hands-on training, and real-world experience prepare you to lead others toward healthier lives. From anatomy and nutrition to business and event planning, you’ll gain a well-rounded foundation and earn industry- recognized certifications. With two immersive field placements and access to state-of-the-art labs and studios, you’ll graduate ready to launch a career as a personal trainer, wellness coach, or fitness entrepreneur.
Wellness Coaching
Empower others to live healthier lives with Humber’s online Wellness Coaching graduate certificate. Designed for working professionals, this flexible program equips you with the skills to support sustainable behaviour change, manage wellness programs, and improve quality of life through evidence-based coaching techniques like motivational interviewing and mindfulness. Gain hands-on experience through field placement, while earning certifications. Graduate ready to make a meaningful impact in healthcare, fitness, corporate wellness, and beyond.
Bachelor of Health Sciences, Workplace Health and Wellness
Providing students with a future-focused education in state-of-the-art bioscience laboratories and classrooms to pursue careers in various health and wellness fields or post-graduate opportunities. This program is multi-disciplinary in nature, drawing from the fields of leadership; mental, physical, and psychological health; business and communication; and knowledge translation.
Using a team approach, learners will work collaboratively with one another and with faculty to apply key principles of health and wellness to real-world scenarios. Develop the skills, knowledge, and techniques to deliver proactive, responsive, and effective wellness services within institutions who prioritize and support human health and performance.
Did You Know?
- Both the Food and Nutrition Management program and the Nutrition & Healthy Lifestyle Promotion program share a common first year of study. With two additional semesters of study, qualified graduates can earn the two diplomas in three years! This may help streamline career aspirations.
- Qualified graduates of the Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Promotion diploma may be considered for admission into the Fitness and Health Promotion diploma program. Graduates may then complete the second diploma with the equivalent of three semesters of full-time study.
- Qualified graduates of the Fitness and Health Promotion diploma may be considered for admission into the Nutrition & Healthy Lifestyle Promotion program. Graduates may then complete the second diploma with the equivalent of two semesters of full-time study.
- Qualified graduates of the following diploma programs may be considered for admission into the Bachelor of Health Sciences, Workplace Health and Wellness.
- Fitness and Health Promotion. Graduates may then complete the degree with the equivalent of four semesters of full-time study plus a work term.
- Food and Nutrition Management. Graduates may then complete the degree with the equivalent of six semesters of full-time study plus a work term.
- Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Promotion. Graduates may then complete the degree with the equivalent of six semesters of full-time study plus a work term.
Getting You Career Ready
Real-world learning is part of the curriculum, whether it be classroom experiences in Humber's on-campus facilities that utilize state-of-the-art technology, capstone projects, or work-integrated learning.
State-of-the-art Labs
With state-of-the-art culinary labs, dedicated fitness and exercise labs, simulation spaces, plus a bioscience lab, Humber offers diverse, leading- edge learning environments designed to meet the evolving needs of today’s and tomorrow’s health and wellness professionals.
Capstone Projects
Capstone projects provide integrative, hands-on, and often collaborative experiences that showcase your career readiness. Depending on your program, you might participate in a health fair, lead a fundraising initiative, or collaborate on a project with a national organization— applying your skills to real-world challenges and making a meaningful impact.
Work-Integrated Learning
Students gain valuable hands-on experience through field placements, where they apply their skills and knowledge in real-world, supervised settings. Humber’s strong partnerships with a wide range of agencies—many of which prefer Humber students—reflect the outstanding reputation of the Humber Polytechnic graduates.