The faculty requires entrants to these courses to have obtained a VCE study
score of at least 25 in two units of mathematics, chosen from units 3 and 4 of
Mathematical Methods, Specialist Mathematics, or an equivalent.
The Clayton campus of the Faculty of Business and Economics offers the
following degrees and double degrees.
Note that following a review of undergraduate courses in the faculty, the Bachelor of Commerce, the Bachelor of Commerce tagged and the Bachelor of Economics degrees were restructured with effect from 2000. Students first enrolled before 2000 have the choice of completing their degree under the structure in force when they first enrolled, or under the new structure. For information about the old structure, students should refer to the 2000 university handbook.
The Bachelor of Accounting is a specialist degree, based on a cooperative education scheme with scholarships sponsored by industry. It is available only to school-leavers who are citizens or permanent residents of Australia.
The
generalist Bachelor of Commerce offers the choice of a wide range of units
related to commerce and management. It allows specialisations in the areas of
accounting, business law, econometrics and business statistics, economics,
finance, management, marketing, and taxation, as well as some opportunity to
include units from outside the faculty such as computing, a language,
mathematics, or psychology.
The three specialised Bachelor of Commerce degrees (specialising in accounting
and finance, or business statistics, or management) are similar to the
generalist Bachelor of Commerce except that they allow greater specialisation
in the selected major field of study and have fewer compulsory first-year units.
The Bachelor of Economics allows for greater emphasis on social science and less on business orientation than is possible in the Bachelor of Commerce. Students must pursue a major study in economics or econometrics and business statistics, and can include supporting studies in accounting and finance, business law, taxation, quantitative studies, economic history, management and marketing. It also has the flexibility to allow students to take up to one-third of their course from units offered by other faculties.
Since
most other faculties are based on the Clayton campus, a wide range of double
degrees is offered with the faculties of Arts, Information Technology,
Education, Engineering, Law, Pharmacy, and Science. In addition, the combined
Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Economics degree allows a substantial number
of units from other faculties to be included.
The faculty requires entrants to these courses to have obtained a study score
of at least 25 in two units of mathematics, chosen from units 3 and 4 of
Mathematical Methods, Specialist Mathematics, or an equivalent.
To ensure cohesion, depth and breadth in their program of studies, students in the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Economics must include in their course a major specialisation and supporting studies. A major requires students to complete 48 points of study in a single discipline or field of study with at least 12 points at each of second and third-year level (disciplines are defined by department prefixes and fields of study are those sets of related units that may be defined in the handbook). Majors are available in the departments of Accounting and Finance, Business Law and Taxation, Economics, Econometrics and Business Statistics, Management or Marketing. All units taken as part of the major specialisation and the units taken as supporting studies are limited to units taught by these departments on the Clayton campus (ie the third character of the unit code is C). It is possible to undertake the same major sequence of study in more than one of these degrees
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