All students must complete a coherent study in a particular area in order to qualify for a degree, but within this constraint the University aims to provide as much flexibility as possible. Several disciplines such as Economics, Marketing, Accounting and Finance, Actuarial Studies, Demography, Statistics and Business Law are available within Business studies and the degree programs, where relevant, are accredited by the appropriate professional societies. The emphasis in modern business studies is increasingly quantitative and the units offered by the University reflect this emphasis. Graduates will be qualified for career paths particularly in financial risk analysis and management, stockbroking, the rapidly growing funds management industry, portfolio management, mergers and acquisitions, financial advising, banking, foreign exchange, international finance, treasury management, and in financial markets as dealers in securities and derivatives. At the same time students can specialise in particular financial applications, such as portfolio investment, banking, business finance, financial risk management, international finance, quantitative and mathematical finance as well as financial modelling and forecasting.
Joint qualifications involve at least one extra year of study.
2 unit English is preferred. Qualifies graduates for Associate Membership of the Australian Institute of Banking and Finance, provided graduates include a marketing and management unit in their degree program. Graduates also meet the full academic requirements for Senior Associate of the Institute. The first year of the BBA comprises prescribed units in marketing, finance, economics, computing, accounting, business and organisations, organisational behaviour and statistics. The second and third years include prescribed units in accounting, human resource management, business law, strategic management and business communication.