Bachelor of Commerce (Business Statistics)

• General information
• Course structure

General information

Course code: 2016 + Course abbreviation: BCom(BusStats) + The following describes the new course structure introduced in 2000 + For details of the old structure, refer to the 2000 university handbook

The Bachelor of Commerce (Business Statistics) degree provides a substantive sequence of units in econometrics and business statistics along with coherent sequences of units in the areas of accounting, finance, management, marketing, business law and taxation and economics. For details of the units available in this specialisation, see `Units in econometrics and business statistics'. All units taken as part of the major specialisation and the units taken as supporting studies are limited to units taught by departments of the faculty on the Clayton campus (ie the third character of the unit code is C).

Course structure

All first, second and third-year units offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics (Clayton) have a value of six points. Full-time students are expected to progress at the rate of eight units or 48 points per year. First- year students normally may not take a second-year unit until at least four first-year units have been completed successfully. It should be noted that units in the later years of the course have prerequisites and corequisites. In addition, students are expected to take units in a yearly sequence even if there are no prerequisite units specified. In addition to the compulsory specialisation from the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics specialisations are available in accounting, business law and taxation, economics, finance, management, and marketing.

Students are required to complete the following compulsory units:

• AFC1021/AFC1022 (Accounting)
• BTC1110/BTC2110 (Business law)
• ECC1000 and ECC1100/ECC2100 (Economics)
• ETC1000 and ETC1010/ETC2010 (Econometrics and business statistics)
• MGC1010 (Management)
• MKC1200/MKC2200 (Marketing)

Students wishing to take first-year units other than those on the above list are able to undertake the second-year versions of the appropriate number of compulsory units. This allows students to complete substantial work in related fields such as computing, or mathematics.

The following are requirements of the course:

• satisfactory completion of 24 units, or units to the value of a total of 144 points, over three full-time years or a maximum of 10 years of study
• a maximum of 10 first-year-level units (60 points)
• a minimum of six third-year-level-units (36 points) of which at least four must be from those offered in the faculty at the campus delivering this program
• completion of a 10-unit major in econometrics and business statistics (ie units with a prefix of ETC). This requires students to complete 60 points of study in econometrics and business statistics with at least 12 points at second-year level and 18 points at third-year level
• at least two non-compulsory units (12 points) outside the main field of study
• an option to include units to a maximum value of 36 points from disciplines outside the faculty or from an approved list of faculty units offered on campuses other than Clayton.

Students must have their program of study approved by the course coordinator or the course coordinator's nominee prior to commencement of the relevant year.

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