Apply for Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)

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BH-COMM

Commerce

Bachelor honours degree

Advance your business knowledge and undertake high-quality research in your field.

This offering version is phasing out and no longer taking applications. You may be able to apply for a later version.

Course outline
  • Qualification
    Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
  • Duration

    Duration

    1 year full-time
  • Credit

    Credit

    200
  • CRICOS

    CRICOS

    078136F
Course outline

Outline

Outline

Studying honours helps you gain research and critical thinking skills that are in high demand in business and industry, and build on your professional knowledge. 

You’ll learn from researchers and professionals with many years of specialised industry experience, and undertake research under the guidance of a supervisor. You’ll study a topic that interests you in-depth, and will present your findings in a dissertation.

This course prepares you for stepping straight into professional roles in commerce, providing excellent project management skills and the ability to solve real industry problems. 

Studying honours can also be a pathway to further learning in a master degree or doctoral degree.

Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.

Learn alongside the next generation of business leaders and researchers with the Bachelor of Advanced Commerce (Honours). This course is available to a selected cohort of elite students and combines the three-year Bachelor of Commerce with the one-year Honours program.

How this course will make you industry ready

This course prepares students for industry by enhancing their analytical, research and critical thinking skills. Students are able to undertake high quality research in an area of interest that can be aligned with real business problems within industry.

What jobs can the Commerce lead to?

On completion of the course, students will have further developed their analytical, critical thinking and research skills in preparation for the workplace. This course also enables students to align their career interests through investigation of a specific problem facing decision makers in their chosen industries.

What you'll learn

  • apply various types of knowledge to understand and evaluate current and emerging research in commerce
  • think creatively and critically to generate innovative solutions to complex business and commercial problems
  • access, evaluate and synthesise relevant information from a range of organisational and external sources
  • communicate appropriately and effectively in professional and public contexts
  • use electronic resources to effectively interrogate databases, analyse data, collect information and communicate research findings
  • demonstrate initiative, responsibility and lifelong learning skills by applying critical reflection and active participation
  • describe global and cultural issues as related to commerce and their impact on local and international communities
  • demonstrate ways of using cultural diversity to improve business and professional practice
  • critique and reconceptualise the roles of leadership, ethical practice and professional integrity when working within a team and independently

Admission criteria

What you need in order to get into this course. There are different pathway options depending on your level of work and education experience.

Select an option that best suits you:

You’re considered someone who has recently left university if:

Applicants with higher education are those whose highest level of study since leaving secondary education is a higher education course, such as a university degree. This may include applicants who are currently studying a higher education course at another education provider and want to transfer to Curtin University, or applicants who are currently studying at Curtin but want to switch to a different course. It may also include applicants who have completed past study with university and non-university higher education providers.

Curtin course switcher criteria

Our admission criteria for minimum entry apply to Curtin course switchers. For information on how to meet Curtin's minimum entry requirements, please see our admission criteria web page.

Higher education course switcher criteria

Our admission criteria for minimum entry apply to other higher education course switchers. For information on how to meet Curtin's minimum entry requirements, please see our admission criteria web page.

ATAR pathway

  • Essential WACE subjects (prerequisites)

    Essential WACE subjects (prerequisites)

    There are no essential WACE subjects for this course.

  • Desirable WACE subjects

    Desirable WACE subjects

    There are no desirable WACE subjects for this course.

Please see our correlation comparability for previous TEE subjects, WACE courses and WACE ATAR courses.

English requirements

Curtin requires all applicants to demonstrate proficiency in English. Specific English requirements for this course are outlined in the IELTS table below.

You may demonstrate English proficiency using the following tests and qualifications.

IELTS Academic (International English Language Testing System)

Writing

6.0

Speaking

6.0

Reading

6.0

Listening

6.0

Overall band score

6.5

Find your pathway to Curtin

Think you don’t have the marks or qualifications to study at Curtin? We have several pathways to help you meet admission. Use our pathway finder to find your best way to studying with us.

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Other requirements and notes for this course

Entry to this course is by invite only. Specific entry requirements conversant with the discipline focus of study can be obtained from the relevant teaching area (school) within the Curtin Business School.


In addition to the course-specific admission criteria listed above, please read our general admission criteria. Our general admission criteria apply to all courses at Curtin University.

The majors and/or streams available to study as part of this course have specific admission criteria that may be different to what is listed on this page. Please view the major/stream page for admission criteria specific to the major/stream you intend to do.

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We’re here to help you navigate the complexities of university admission. Choose the support you need from the options below.

Find your pathway to Curtin

Think you don’t have the marks or qualifications to study at Curtin? We have several pathways to help you meet admission. Use our pathway finder to find your best way to studying with us.

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Credit for recognised learning (CRL)

Use your experience to get credit towards your degree

Finish your course sooner with credit for your previous study or work experience.

Fees and charges

Fee information is not available for this course at this time. Find estimated course fees.

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  • Curtin course code: BH-COMM
  • CRICOS code: 078136F
  • Last updated on: 27 March 2024

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