Bachelor of Business

For Domestic and those International students not required to complete the English Language Enhancement course, to be eligible for the award of Bachelor of Business (BBus), a student must acquire 240 credit points as prescribed below:

• complete 80 credit points for Year 1 level core courses
• complete 160 credit points for courses comprising:
  • Legal Issues for Managers (or Real Estate and Property Development Law for students completing the Real Estate and Property Development award major)
  • at least one 80 credit point Business award major
  • 70 credit points comprising:
    • a second Business award major (students completing two award majors will be given permission to substitute an elective course in the second major with the core program requirement Legal Issues for Managers)
    • or a 60 credit point Business major and/or electives.
• complete no more than 100 credit points of courses at Year 1 level
• complete at least 60 credit points of courses at Year 3 level.

For International students required to complete the English Language Enhancement course

• complete 80 credit points for Year 1 level core courses and 10 credit points for the English Language Enhancement course Language and Communication for Business and Commerce
• complete 150 credit points for courses comprising:
  • Legal Issues for Managers (or Real Estate and Property Development Law for students completing the Real Estate and Property Development award major)
  • at least one 80 credit point Business award major
  • 60 credit points comprising:
    • a second Business award major (students completing two award majors must contact their Program Director for advice on progression)
    • or a 60 credit point Business major and/or electives.
• complete no more than 100 credit points of courses at Year 1 level
• complete at least 60 credit points of courses at Year 3 level.

Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Level and Type

• The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) is the national policy for regulated qualifications in Australian education and training. This qualification is accredited as an AQF Level 7 - Bachelor Degree.

English Language Enhancement

• All undergraduate International students admitted from 2010 are required to complete an English Language Enhancement course unless specific criteria are met as specified in Section 1.2 of the Bachelor Degree Policy - Schedule 1: Requirement to Complete the English Language Enhancement Course.

The following course must be completed in the first semester of study:

• Language and Communication for Business and Commerce

English Language Enhancement course

• Language and Communication for Business and Commerce 

Year 1
Students must complete the following courses:

• Course title
• Accounting for Decision Making 
• Business Data Analysis 
• Management Concepts 
• Introduction to Marketing 
• Economics for Decision Making 1 
• Employment Relations 

Students must complete 20 credit points from the following courses as required for their first award major:

• Business Informatics OR
• Information Systems for Services Industries 
• Government-Business Relations 
• Introduction to Event Management 
• Introduction to Real Estate and Property Development 
• Introduction to Sport Management 

Year 2 and 3
Students must complete the following courses:

• Legal Issues for Managers
• Griffith Business School Award Major 
  • Employment Relations
  • Entrepreneurship and Self Employment
  • Event Management
  • Human Resource Management
  • International Management
  • Logistics and Supply Network Management
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Real Estate and Property Development
  • Sport Management
  • Sustainable Enterprise