Undergraduate · Business
Bachelor of Business
University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
About this program
The Newcastle Business School holds AACSB accreditation, which puts it in a smaller club of Australian business schools than the AQF-only crowd, and the Bachelor of Business leans on that with a first-year "business challenge" unit that has students working in cross-major teams on briefs set by local firms in the Hunter region, a lot of hospitality, mining services, and logistics companies rather than the finance-sector case studies that dominate at the Group of Eight schools.
Majors run from the standard accounting and marketing through to a sport business major that draws on Newcastle's genuine sporting culture (the Knights NRL club, Newcastle Jets) for placements and guest lectures, which is a distinctive offering most other regional business schools don't have. Students can also take a double major, and the degree has a well-used study-abroad exchange list skewed toward partner universities in Germany and the Netherlands, a legacy of the business school's earlier European exchange partnerships.
Class sizes in first year are large lecture-plus-tutorial format at Callaghan, but by third year most students are in seminar-sized major electives, and the degree includes an optional (unpaid but credit-bearing) 100-hour professional placement unit that many students use to lock in a graduate job before finishing.
Cost & duration
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Course structure
4 terms of coursework
- Year 1: Introduction to Business, Accounting for Business, Economics for Business, Business Statistics, Business Law, Marketing Principles, Business Challenge (team project unit), Elective
- Year 2: Major units begin (choose from Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Management, Human Resource Management, International Business, Sport Business, Tourism), Organisational Behaviour, Business Analytics, Electives
- Year 3: Advanced major units, Strategic Management, optional Professional Placement (100 hours), Capstone Business Project, Electives
- Study abroad exchange available in Year 2 or 3 (partner universities include several in Germany and the Netherlands)
Admissions
Completion of Year 12 / ATAR approximately 65-75; choice of up to two majors from accounting, finance, marketing, management, HR and international business
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