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Bachelor of Business (Professional)
Majoring in Business Administration
75.0
Choose your major
Accounting
Learn to deliver insights that drive business outcomes, while appreciating how profit and purpose are the foundations of future, sustainable business.
Business Administration
Gain an essential understanding of business operations, including organisational behaviour and managing workplace relations, alongside a range of practical skills.
Business Analytics and Analysis
Business analysts often act as bridges between management and those with more technological leanings. This major will teach you how to speak both business and tech languages.
Entrepreneurship
Develop the type of fresh thinking required to build, launch and scale a start-up business or social venture.
Finance
This CFA-affiliated program is designed to build careers in investment banking, financial consultancy, asset management, financial securities, trading stocks and brokerage.
Human Resource Management
Discover how to manage people, create a productive working environment and build a positive workplace culture.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Equip yourself with the skills needed to access career opportunities in logistics and supply chain management, international trade, procurement, inventory management and distribution.
Management
Learn about the role of management in business and discover how key resources must be strategically planned, effectively deployed, monitored and controlled to meet strategic business objectives.
Marketing
Develop the advanced marketing and managerial skills needed to think strategically and succeed in this exciting industry.
Sports Management
Develop the business mindset needed to run sport organisations and venues, identify risks and seize opportunities.
Overview
Step into a world of opportunity with our Bachelor of Business (Professional) degree. Tailor your path with a broad range of majors, ranging from Finance to Entrepreneurship. Experience hands-on learning and develop your digital skills across leading platforms like MYOB, Xero, and Google Analytics. Contribute to sustainability projects and make a positive impact on the world and others through ethical business practices. Connect with industry experts and mentors in your areas of interest for unparalleled personal growth and networking opportunities.
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Our refreshed course focuses on equipping graduates for the real world of business by providing:
- hands-on skills and training in business before graduating
- strong connections with industry experts and mentors
- access to the latest digital platforms and tools.
Your major
Gain an essential understanding of business operations, including organisational behaviour and managing workplace relations. You’ll also learn practical skills in areas, including data analytics, data collection, strategic planning and project management. The aim of this major is to give you the confidence to ask intelligent questions so you'll be able to get the answers you need for successful administrative work in any industry or workplace.
Your industry experience
All our bachelor degrees include a guaranteed Work Integrated Learning opportunity. This Professional Degree includes a mandatory 12-month paid work placement. You'll benefit from Swinburne’s unique industry partnerships, gain invaluable full-time work experience and earn credit towards your degree.
Skills you’ll learn
- Communication
- Data collection
- Decision making
- Digital literacy
- Organisation
- Strategic planning
Your career opportunities
- Business administrator
- Business manager
- Human resource officer
- Marketing coordinator
- Project officer
Key codes
International student visa
International students in Australia who hold student visas are required to study full-time and on campus. Courses that are taught entirely online are only available to international students studying outside Australia or those in Australia who are not on a student visa. Online courses are not available to international students in Australia who hold a student visa.
Professional accreditations
Why Swinburne?
Top 5% of the world’s higher education business schools
Top 300 for Business and Economics
Times Higher Education World University Ranking by Subject 2023#1 in Melbourne for student support
#1 in Melbourne for graduate salary one year out
Thishi's professional degree journey at Bosch Australia
Thishi's professional placement at Bosch Australia has provided her with a stepping stone for the next part of her career. It has given her confidence, experience in the industry and prepared her for what is to come, once she graduates.