Bachelor of Business

Course overview

The business world offers rewarding career choices that are wide and varied - from advising on employment relations issues, managing employees or interpreting financial documents - to an emphasis on risk assessment and management-communications.  In whatever part of the business world you can see yourself playing a role, the Griffith Bachelor of Business (BBus) gives students the flexibility to combine major and/or specialisation streams to suit their own business interests.  

This degree offers you a choice of majors and the opportunity for additional majors and/or specialisations:

Majors

• Human Resource Management
• Management
• Contemporary Marketing

Specialisations

• Chinese Business
• Finance
• Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (OHSE)

This course includes units from Griffith University and other universities through OUA.

Course structure

To be eligible for the award of Griffith Bachelor of Business (BBus) through Open Universities Australia, a student must acquire 24 units as prescribed below:

• complete 8 Level 1 Business Introductory core units
• complete one Griffith University Business award major consisting of 8 units

and either:

• a second major (and approved electives to total 8 units) from those offered by Open Universities Australia which must be identified as a major by the other faculty and completed according to their requirements
• or complete 8 elective units which can be chosen from one of the specialisations listed or from any undergraduate course offered by Open Universities Australia provided you meet the award requirements

When planning your studies you must also meet the following requirements to receive this award:

• complete no more than 10 Level 1 units
• complete at least 6 Level 3 units
• at least eight second or third year level units (or one-third of the degree) must be Griffith Business School units studied via Open Universities Australia
• complete no more than 3 units in which the grade of Pass Conceded has been attained.

Entry requirement

In order to be eligible for a Commonwealth supported place, students must meet the following requirements:

• At least 4 OUA Undergraduate units or equivalent with a minimum GPA of 4.0

To learn more about Commonwealth supported places, including eligibility please see Commonwealth supported places.