Diploma in Business/Bachelor of Business

This course harnesses your energy and passion for success.

This degree gives you the knowledge to create a career as a business professional.

Whether you wish to pursue a corporate role in a global enterprise or start your own business, this course will provide you with the skills to do it.

The course begins with four core units:

Financing Enterprises, Enterprise Innovation and Markets, Enterprise Leadership, and Enterprise Law.

These units provide you with the essential business knowledge that will be the platform for your career and equip you with the academic skills that will underpin your success in the degree.You will need flexibility to create your career.

This course gives you the flexibility to select eight units from anywhere in the University.

This means that you can choose a variety of non-business units to gain depth and perspective on your enterprise future;

you could take a specialisation in another discipline;

or you can complete a second specialisation within Business.

Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 240 credit points which include the units listed in the recommended sequence below. The early exit College Diploma consists of 80 credit points.

Western Sydney University The College Units

Please note that all campuses may not have intakes each year.

Choose one of

Choose two of

*University level units selected above that are not part of the student’s primary major will be counted towards their 80 credit points of electives. Careful selection of electives may allow for a second major as described below under the heading ‘Elective units’.

Students may exit at this point and graduate with the Diploma in Business following a passing grade in all of the above units. Students who progress onto Year Two may also be awarded the Diploma if they gain a passing grade in all of the above units. Students must pass at least 70 credit points of University level units in Year One before progressing to the Year Two units.

Western Sydney University Units

For course advice during your second and subsequent years of study, please use the contact listed for the Bachelor of Business.

Bachelor of Business

In years two and three, students are required to complete eight major core units from one of the following primary Business majors.

The professional units provide a focus on careers. Students are required to complete one unit from each of the four key focus areas: numeracy, career planning, innovation, and enterprise engagement, a total of 40 credit points. Students are advised to choose units that will support careers in one of three areas: Money (for specialisations in Accounting, Applied Finance, Economics and Property), Markets (for specialisations in Hospitality Management, International Business, Marketing and Sport Management), Management (for specialisations in Human Resource Management and Management).

See the handbook entries for each specialisation for information on the professional units that are recommended.

Students may use their elective units to complete an additional major from the pool of Business majors (80 credit points), or a major from another discipline area (80 credit points), or up to 80 credit points from the wide range of units offered by Western Sydney University.

Second majors from other disciplines to complement your primary Business major include:

Second majors in Business include:

Enrolment in elective units is subject to meeting any required criteria for individual units, such as co-requisites and pre-requisites.

Students in the Accounting and Property majors will use some of their elective units to meet the accreditation requirements associated with these majors. Depending on the majors selected, these students may therefore be unable to complete a second major. See handbook entries for MT2030 Accounting and MT2034 Property.