Undergraduate · Business
Bachelor of Business
University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, QLD, Australia
About this program
The Bachelor of Business at UniSC is a fairly standard generalist business degree in structure (foundation year, then a major, then advanced electives and a work-integrated learning component), but it's worth knowing in context of where UniSC sits: a regional Queensland university whose graduate outcomes lean heavily on Sunshine Coast and Brisbane employers rather than the big multinational graduate programs that Group of Eight business schools feed into more directly.
Majors typically include accounting, marketing, management, tourism and event management (reflecting the region's genuine tourism economy), and human resource management. The tourism and event management option in particular draws on UniSC's location. The Sunshine Coast is a real tourism and hospitality economy, not just a marketing backdrop, and placement partners for that major include local tourism boards and event companies rather than purely hypothetical case studies.
Accounting students need to check their specific subject selection against CPA Australia or Chartered Accountants ANZ requirements if they want the degree to satisfy those professional accreditation pathways directly, since not every accounting-adjacent subject in the course automatically counts.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
6 terms of coursework
- Duration: 3 years full-time
- Year 1: Accounting Principles, Economics for Business, Marketing Fundamentals, Management, Business Statistics
- Year 2: Major subjects begin (Accounting / Marketing / Management / Tourism and Event Management / Human Resource Management), Business Law
- Year 3: Advanced major electives, Work-Integrated Learning placement or industry project, capstone strategy course
- Majors (choose one): Accounting, Marketing, Management, Tourism and Event Management, Human Resource Management
- CPA/CAANZ accreditation pathway available depending on major and subject selection
Admissions
ATAR 55 or equivalent