Business Administration

What does it take to start a successful new business, to lead an organisation, to plan and manage a complex project? How do leaders negotiate, resolve conflict, and manage across cultures in the global workplace?The BBA will answer these questions and, more importantly, help you develop skills to go out and do these things in the real world.The BBA is flexible so you can build on your strengths. For example, you have a wide choice about how much mathematical content to include in your degree.It's a great program for a flexible double combination with almost any other bachelor degree at ANU.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

Graduates with a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration will have a broad and coherent knowledge of business management and leadership concepts and practices, which will form the basis for independent lifelong learning.  

Skills

Graduates with a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration will have:

•  cognitive skills to review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise organisational knowledge;
• cognitive and technical skills to demonstrate a broad understanding of management and leadership knowledge with depth in some areas;  
• cognitive and create skills to exercise critical thinking and judgment in identifying and solving problems with intellectual independence; and,  
• communication skills to present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of management knowledge and ideas.  

Graduates with a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration will demonstrate the application of management knowledge and skills: 

• with initiative and judgment in planning, problem solving and decision making in professional practice and/or scholarship;  
• to adapt knowledge and skills in diverse contexts; and,  
• with responsibility and accountability for own learning and professional practice and in collaboration with others within broad parameters. 

The Bachelor of Business Administration requires completion of 144 units, of which a maximum of 60 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 144 units must include:

• 60 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

BUSI2025 International Business

BUSN1001 Business Reporting and Analysis

ECON1101 Microeconomics 1

MGMT1003 Management, People and Organisations

MGMT2030 Human Resource Management and Strategy

MGMT2100 Communication for Business

MGMT3015 Corporate Strategy

MGMT3021 Leadership

MGMT3027 Entrepreneurship and Innovation

MKTG2004 Marketing

• 6 units from completion of a course from the following list:

MGMT2003 Business Decision Making

STAT1008 Quantitative Research Methods

• 6 units from completion of a course from the following list:

ECON1100 Economics 1 (H)

ECON1102 Macroeconomics 1

• 24 units from completion of courses from List 1 of the ANU College of Business and Economics
• 48 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU

For majors and minors offered by the ANU College of Business and Economics, students may count a course towards multiple majors and minors. If a minor is a subset of all stated courses and/or prerequisites for a major, then completion of the major overrides completion of the minor, and only the major is regarded as having been completed.  If all courses in a major and/or minor are compulsory courses in the degree, the major and/or minor will not be listed on the transcript.

Admission to all programs is on a competitive basis. Admission to undergraduate degrees is based on meeting the ATAR requirement or an equivalent rank derived from the following qualifications:

• An Australian year 12 qualification or international equivalent; OR
• A completed Associate Diploma, Associate Degree, AQF Diploma, Diploma, AQF Advanced Diploma or Graduate Certificate; OR
• At least one standard full-time year (1.0 FTE) in a single program of degree level study at an Australian higher education institution; OR
• An approved tertiary preparation course unless subsequent study is undertaken.

 Requirements for domestic applicants:

ATAR:82

QLD Band:9

International Baccalaureate:30

For international students:

Refer to the table to see if you meet the requirements:

http://www.anu.edu.au/files/resource/IntAdmissTabl2014e.pdf 

English Language Requirements:

ANU recognizes a number of English language tests as meeting the University’s English language requirements. The acceptable tests are IELTS (an overall score of 6.5 with at least 6 in each component of the test), TOEFL-paper based test (a score of 570), TOEFL-internet based test (a score of 80, with a minimum of 20 in Reading and Writing and 18 in Speaking and Listening), Cambridge CAE Advanced (80, grade A), PTE Academic (overall 64, minimum 55 in each section

ANU offers a wide range of scholarships to current and future students to assist with the cost of their studies. The University is committed to enabling all students, regardless of their background, to achieve their best at ANU and realise their potential. 

Eligibility for ANU scholarships varies depending on the specifics of the scholarship and can be categorised by the type of student you are.  Specific scholarship application process information is included in the relevant scholarship listing.