Undergraduate · Business
Bachelor of Business
Griffith University, Brisbane/Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
About this program
The Bachelor of Business at Griffith runs on a common first-year model: everyone does the same accounting, economics, and management fundamentals regardless of which of the nine-odd majors they eventually land in, which is standard practice at AACSB-accredited business schools but still worth knowing if you're choosing between a flexible generalist degree and a narrower Bachelor of Commerce elsewhere.
What's specific to Griffith is the split campus offering: Nathan and Gold Coast both run the degree, but the Gold Coast cohort tends to skew toward majors with a tourism and events tilt, given the campus's proximity to the industry it's studying. Business students there routinely end up doing live consulting projects for Gold Coast tourism operators as assessment pieces rather than hypothetical case studies.
Griffith Business School holds AACSB accreditation, which matters mostly for students eyeing postgraduate study or international mobility later. It signals the degree meets a recognised international quality bar rather than being purely domestically calibrated. The major choices span the usual accounting/finance/marketing/management set plus less common options like sport management and international business, reflecting Queensland's actual industry mix.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
5 terms of coursework
- Year 1 (common core): Principles of Accounting, Economic Principles, Introduction to Management, Marketing Fundamentals, Business Statistics, Business Law
- Year 2: major-specific units begin (choose from Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Management, International Business, Human Resource Management, Tourism Management, Sport Management)
- Year 2-3: Business Ethics and Sustainability, Strategic Management
- Year 3: capstone Business Strategy Project, typically involving a live client brief
- Minor or second major option available for students wanting broader coverage
Admissions
Completion of Year 12 (Australian Senior Secondary Certificate) or equivalent, ATAR approx. 65-75 (approximate, typical bar)