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.
Fees & duration
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Course structure
Study plan in 4 parts
- 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
- 100 hoursoptional Professional Placement
- Capstone Business Project
- Electives
- Study abroad exchange available in Year 2 or 3 (partner universities include several in Germany and the Netherlands)
Career & PR pathway
Which careers in Business lead to skilled migration depends on the occupation, not the degree title. See the skilled occupation lists guide for which occupations are on each list, and the points calculator to check where you stand.
Admissions
Completion of Year 12 (or equivalent); Selection Rank of 63.00 for domestic entry at the Newcastle City campus. This is UON's new (2025+) Bachelor of Business: choose up to two majors from six business-related majors (accounting, business analytics, business economics, finance, managing people & organisations, marketing), or pair one Business major with a Bachelor of Commerce major.
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